Greek PM to foreign journalist: I do not allow you to come over to this building and insult me

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  1. She is being arrested in the past for “facilitated the illegal stay of a foreigner in Greece” and waiting for trial. She hosted an 23 years old Afghan in her house in Idra.

  2. Translation of the original article.

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    >An incident occurred during the joint press conference between Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his Dutch counterpart Mark Roote.
    The incident occurred when a foreign journalist asked a question about the refugee issue and the Push Back in the Aegean.
    Specifically, the journalist asked the Prime Minister “when will you stop lying about the push backs and what is happening with refugees in Greece” adding that it insults the intelligence of all journalists in the world and even accusing him of narcissism.
    In the prime minister’s attempt to respond, the journalist interrupted him, leading the prime minister, visibly upset, to tell her that “you will not come into this building to insult me.”
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    >”You will not come into this building to insult me”
    “I know that in the Netherlands you have a culture of asking politicians direct questions, which I respect. What I cannot accept is for you to come to this office and insult me or the Greek people with accusations and expressions that are not accompanied by tangible evidence when this country is fighting the migration problem, has saved hundreds if not thousands of lives at sea,” the prime minister said initially.
    “Every day we are saving people at sea and at the same time we are blocking ships coming from Turkey, as we have the right to do under international law, and we are waiting for the Turkish coast guard to return them to Turkey. So instead of blaming Greece, you should blame those who are systematically instrumental in pushing people out of a safe country, because I have to remind you that people in Turkey are not in danger. You must blame them. We have a tough but fair policy on migration,” Mitsotakis added.
    “Have you ever been to Samos? You have not been there. You will not come to this building to insult me. I am answering now and you will not interrupt, as I listened to you very carefully If you go to Samos you will find a very good structure with sanitary conditions, playgrounds and it is nothing like what we had in the past. I will not allow anyone to point a finger at this government and accuse me as well,” the Prime Minister concluded.

  3. ‘What is free press? A disert?’

    I’m sure those ‘maw freedom of hate speech agaisnt women, LGBT and immigrants’ incels are gonna down vote me lol.

    Edit : ring ding ding. Water is wet. Butthurt incels and bots couldn’t help themselves.

  4. Why do Europeans get so easily offended? Rather than making the conversation about the subject matter at hand they rather complain about how the question wasn’t worded in the nicest way possible. People are allowed to have opposing view points. Even if they’re wrong.

  5. Yet another “woke”, “spoilt”, super-rich north european “activist my ass” trying to show their moral superiority ( as they did to hungary or poland) and virtue signaling.

    It is so easy to sit on your wealth and prosperity ( accumulated on exploitation of other continents/slavetrade) surrounded by countries like belgium and luxemburg and preach about the “tragic conditions and the inadequacies of the other countries”…. She owns a house in Ydra ( because she enjoys the luxurious life provided by her wealth that allowed her to buy it) but at the same time she likes to preach as a reaction to her own guilts.

    So Europe wants Greece to protect Europe’s borders against illegal immigrants, fight an extensive trafficking network in turkey and in other countries ( who are financed with billions of euros yearly – yes billions- to host e.g syrian refugees) and at the same time be kind and affectionate towards illegal immigrants ( NOT ASYLUM REFUGEES) that are all males between 15 and 30 coming from bagladesh, afghanistan or pakistan. Hypocricy at its best. And sea borders are especially hard to guard anyways. You know how many times Turkey have tried to leverage those immigrants to accuse greek coastguard or guards in thrace of cruelty, when they were the ones, literally providing the boats and the buses, for mass migration ?

    A sovereign country has the right to protect their borders and also protect the population composition of their territory. Why in the world should any greek government allow islands like Lesvos or Samos become pakistani majority ?

  6. Too many people still with their head in the clouds because they can’t see the reality of the migration crisis we are facing. I applaud the Greek PM for not taking that shit.

  7. “I know that in the Netherlands you have a culture of asking politicians direct questions, which I respect. ” But here in Greece journalists are asking him only what food he likes and where he will be during the weekend ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Call her activist biased whatever , reality is NL didn’t even want to take a single one of those refugees , instead they took advice from an NGO and threw cash to Greece so they can build three refugee camps.

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