Since the beginning of the year, more than 35 minors and 4 parents have been arrested daily by the police. Not in Mexico or El Salvador. Here in Greece.
For parents, handcuffs serve to neglect a minor. In most cases, their children are involved in incidents of violence and delinquent behavior.
The ages, frequency, ferocity and nature of the incidents (we even saw a forensic report of a 5 year old being sexually abused by a 5 year old at a preschool!), the recording of them, the comfortable circulation of them on the internet, everything is shocking.
Are stricter penalties, such as prison, for parents okay? With good reason. Because it all starts at home. If parents don’t set limits, no school and no state can. But anyone who thinks that the strictest punishments are enough to deal with such a scourge is deeply ridiculed.
Fires
Laughing deeply and those who thought that September would not be possible said goodbye to us with a fire that lasted 48 hours uncontrollably and left houses and goods in ashes and two dead. A new nightmarish reality that we should probably get used to. When did we say Canadair would come? In 2027. We have a road (and disasters) ahead of us…
Fires also on the international scene, with Israel’s invasion of South Lebanon and Netanyahu defying the USA, Europe and all Western recommendations. The column is not suitable for geopolitical analysis, but we still cannot digest that there was a Greek party that condemned… the murder of the leader of the terrorist organization. Let’s not ask ourselves then how he went from 2nd to 5th place in the polls.
However, PASOK occupies second place in opinion polls, with just 24 hours left until the polls. Androulakis and Doukas seem to have the advantage, but are threatened by Geroulano and Diamantopoulou. What was supposed to make everyone feel like they were sitting on hot coals? This “nobody”, who takes first place in the question, “who can beat Kyriakos Mitsotakis”.
Party (for 50 or… 5 years)
Sixty-five years have passed since The Birthday Party premiered in London, and the image of a broken spectacle frame resting, crudely glued, on a man’s nose is now familiar. Harold Pinter establishes theatrical history. In the Greek scenario, however, we have another “birthday party”.
“To remember, with our party hat, that on Friday “we are all going Rigillis”, as our slogan says. Let’s celebrate 50 years of New Democracy… an opportunity to reunite with friends and former combatants”, said the Prime Minister yesterday in his introductory statement to the meeting of the Council of Ministers. The friends, obviously, are the transferees, mainly from PASOK, who will celebrate at the blue outdoor party… 5 years and something like that. As for the purpose of the celebrations? An outlet for the party’s internal complaints.
Salvation or… eviction
Yalco is also looking for a commercial way out of the painful and persistent quagmire of recent years. The company, whose history begins at the beginning of the 20th century, must improve its financial situation, otherwise it will be threatened with immediate eviction… from the Stock Exchange, where it has been in the Surveillance Category for 4 years.
One of the initiatives of the current period is the spin-off plan for the commercial sector (glassware, household items and professional use).
Of course, this alone is not enough, given the negative equity, the “red” working capital, but also the large debts.
However, it is certain that it is a first step, which cannot be ruled out as being continued, if we take into account the attempted exploration of the property, but also the unconfirmed scenarios of possible interest from a “white knight”.
“They are not useless”
Salvation was also found for the 2 million tickets that the Thessaloniki Transport Project Organization has at its disposal, which were at risk of becoming unavailable due to the arrival of the metro. They are not useless, they can be used in the Metro, responds to the Organization’s management, after the wave of reactions.
Furthermore, the modification of the KtP contract for a further 2.7 million tickets (also for use on the metro) and for 100 thousand electronic cards with a capacity of 8k will normally occur after re-examination (there is an appeal to the Court of Auditors). OSETH’s tender to supply 960,000 new 8K cards is now live.
