Citizens dismissed

One thing that the majority of people in Greece - and particularly residents of Athens - know is that law and order are relative values. The people in this country feel increasingly vulnerable and defenseless in a society that lacks coordinates and a state that appears incapable of implementing the law.

The chilling murder of lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos, the successive "raids" conducted by anti-establishment group Rouvikonas - including one at the Spanish Embassy - an attack on a wheelchair-bound person who was speaking at an Athens university on volunteerism, and other such incidents - recent or older, of varying degrees of severity - show every single citizen what is wrong with Greek society. However dissimilar these incidents appear, they all stem from the growing audacity of criminals and reprobates.

What is most worrying is that this prevalent sense that...