During the discussion on the amendment regarding the Unknown Soldier, the leader of Course of Freedom, Zoe Konstantopoulou, intervened moments ago. Ms. Konstantopoulou denounced that Parliament security is prohibiting relatives of the Tempe train crash victims and members of the “Until the End” group from entering Parliament to watch the session from the galleries.
According to Ms. Konstantopoulou, police officers asked citizens to remove badges they were wearing that bore the word “Justice” and carried the number 57, with her questioning whether “the word Justice is forbidden?” As she argued, one person wearing a shirt depicting photographs of Tempe victims was asked to zip up his jacket to be allowed entry. Furthermore, she added that citizens were asked to surrender their personal items, as a banner was found in someone’s bag.
The Course of Freedom leader spoke of a “practice of repelling Democracy within Parliament,” while requesting that the presidency resolve the issue before she takes the podium for her speech, with the relatives of the Tempe victims present in the galleries.
