Migration and Asylum Minister Thanos Pleuris called comedian Lakis Lazopoulos and his comments about the government amendment regarding the Unknown Soldier monument “provocative.” “He should have felt pain when he had to serve his military service,” he remarked. Specifically, the Migration and Asylum Minister said on an Ant1 show: “I’m bothered because I hear some artists, for example Mr. Lazopoulos who suddenly felt pain for the Unknown Soldier. He should have felt pain when he had to serve his military service.” “The Unknown Soldier presupposes that someone is unknown but was a soldier for the homeland,” he added. “Someone who wanted to avoid military service for the homeland should not speak about the Unknown Soldier. When someone tries to avoid their military duty, they should be less provocative,” he concluded.
Πλεύρης: Ο Άγνωστος Στρατιώτης προϋποθέτει οτι κάποιος είναι μεν άγνωστος αλλά υπήρξε στρατιώτης για την πατρίδα. Κάποιος που ήθελε να αποφύγει τη στράτευση για την πατρίδα, ας μη μιλάει για τον Άγνωστο Στρατιώτη pic.twitter.com/DN1xZMm8Fj
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Lazopoulos: The Unknown Soldier symbolizes the unknown Greek who struggles
Lakis Lazopoulos recently referred to the Unknown Soldier monument issue in an interview, saying: “Syntagma Square belongs to everyone and not to the Mitsotakis family, the Papandreou family or the Tsipras family. It’s not their garden, not their courtyard […] The soldier is unknown. Only those coming out of Parliament are known, and then there’s the unknown person who lost his child, the unknown person who has nothing to eat. The Unknown Soldier symbolizes the unknown Greek who struggles. It’s not a garden for laying wreaths and doing these foolish things.”