Mother of youth killed on Filopappos hill blasts SYRIZA’s ‘hypocrisy’

The mother of a 25-year year old Nikolas Moustakas, who was killed on Filopappos Hill right under the Acropolis on 15 August, 2018, has in an open letter lambasted the government over what she says is its double standards in handling the case of her son and those of other murder victims who are migrants or members of minorities.

In the enraged letter, the victim's mother noted that despite many desperate calls the state had taken no measures to guard and put night lights in an area that has become a haven for muggings.

It has also not fenced off the dangerous cliffs in the area from which her son fell off a cliff when he was chased by the three muggers, two migrants from Pakistan and one from Iran, with a broken bottle.

The area is popular among tourists and youths. Nikolas Moustakas was with his girlfriend who managed to escape as he tried to fend off the attackers.

Police said the attackers were responsible for at least three prior muggings in the same area.

Ms Moustaka had sent a letter to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after the murder to ask him to take action. The PM never replied.

She was disconcerted by the fact that Tsipras responded to the letter of the mother of a man who was lynched by a shopkeeper whose store he had entered, Zacharias Kostopoulos, and did not respond to hers. It was later determined that Zak, as he was called, was a gay activist.

She has asserted that the double standard was due to left-wing SYRIZA's hypocritical interest in the fate of migrants and small minorities like the LGBTQ community, which she attributes to the party's need to bolster its irreparably tarnished left-wing profile and appeal to its core leftist support base.

 

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