“She was naked in Dekelia avenue with people around – around'
Through a video on his social networks, Marios Athanasiou announced that he witnessed a tragic incident when a girl fell victim to rape.
Obviously shocked actor through his video requested the tightening of penalties for cases of rape, trained police officers in each department and independent civil protection units with specialization.
Specifically, as he revealed in the video, he saw a girl who had been a rape victim in New Philadelphia naked on the avenue and surrounded by people and police, without taking care to take the victim to a safer place and cover herself with something .
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He said in detail in the video (after a while he deleted it): “Yesterday I witnessed a very difficult incident in New Philadelphia, it was a girl who had been a victim of rape and was at night in a central point on a boulevard, naked with people around, trying to help, and the police. Cars were passing by, it was a very difficult situation.Things that I want to comment on come to mind, it seems inconceivable to me, my mind cannot grasp it. How is it possible that the police – and I'm not talking about the bad police, the good police, let's not start talking nonsense to each other – we keep saying that there should be trained police. And there must be and there may be I don't care. This isn't about police training, it's about common sense. Where you are, who you are if you have the intelligence or the stupidity in the brain to understand that it is not possible for a girl to be naked on the street with twenty passers-by who want to help, I don't care because it doesn't matter. strong>At that moment, this phase, the setting, is very different and you have not taken measures to ensure that this girl is in a more protected environment. A blanket, something to put on. The people around should not approach and of course the cars should not pass by and “watch TV” and watch with curiosity what is happening.
This made a terrible impression on me, it blew my mind. As well as the passers-by themselves who were around and sitting like that. If I had taken video which for obvious reasons I didn't we would be talking about other things right now. So you would understand that there is a responsibility in’ this image, in’ this difficulty. Which is a difficult story to tell anyway. this girl from now on in her life. Once again, on the occasion of these incidents we will talk again about the tightening of the laws.It's out of my hands, we'll all do this together. If we can change this, ask for it, demand it, we are citizens, we have every right. I think that rape and abuse, especially of minors, should be the harshest possible punishment that can exist in this country.
And don't always go – because that's the status quo at the moment – if you're found guilty you'll go with the lightest sentence that applies in the criminal code. I don't care if this mistake in the criminal code was made during SYRIZA or not. Because it's our favorite game here on the internet. It belongs to SYRIZA. Fine, let it change now, five years ago, yesterday, tomorrow. It's mine, I made the mistake, don't look to find out who made the mistake. We have done it, others have done it, it does not concern me who has done it. This is independent, it concerns our children, our society, our fellow human beings. Well, we made a mistake.
It's not my thing to make a video and have to prove if I'm right or others are wrong. We say something that is happening and how we can change it. If you can change it, change it yourself. If we can change it, we can change it. But the conversation is not purely partisan. It is more political and social. I think that should change yesterday. And I will not refer to anything else. At another time we will also talk about the reactions you like to get here on the internet, but that is another story that is not entirely about me. this thing to be able to change at least in the criminal code or in the preparation that the State has against ’ these cases. Because I consider it improbable that it will change in every family and in every house”.
