The investigation into the causes of the tragic Tempi accident is now leading to an international scandal of unprecedented proportions , with the sole responsibility of the government and the prime minister.

In his attempt to escape the frame of guilt and extend his stay in power, Mr. Mitsotakis has unleashed the bloodhounds of his media court and the donors of the paracentral powers of the family power, with the aim of creating absolute confusion and disorientation of public opinion.

What has been happening in the country in recent days is literally unprecedented, even in sub-Saharan African countries. Because there, at least, there are no bodies and “authorities” that pretend to be democratic institutions. Decisions are made directly by the regimes, without any communication pretexts.

The Greece of our day is, unfortunately, a different version of a failed state that will certainly be taught, along with that of Romania and France, as a typical case of functional degeneration of the parliamentary model in the developed world.

How are things?

Consider how things stand: In a state of unprecedented panic, a prime minister who is informed in advance by a “given” head of a state agency about the content of the official finding ( EODASAAM ) on the Tempi train accident resorts to a hastily staged television apology. The journalist presses him point blank and the otherwise “calm” prime minister is forced to admit that he may have been lying to the Greek people in his initial assessment of the causes of the accident, when in another television interview with a docile journalist he literally adopted the grocery paper of the railway company involved in the accident!

Then, the same prime minister is confronted with the river of popular anger and finds that his poll ratings are collapsing precisely because it becomes a common belief that he is attempting to cover up the crime. And immediately… he pulls the handbrake. He realizes the “mistake” and attempts to correct it by canceling his own confession in the most clumsy way.

Indifferent to the country’s international status, he throws Praetorians and mercenaries into the arena with the sole aim of causing a communication “blackout”. Let the ball drop, lest the common belief about a cover-up suffer cracks in the direction of a skillfully spread seed of doubt: “Was Mitsotakis right?”

This “presumption of doubt” is the quintessence of vulgar regime propaganda. But the “communication chaos” operation has enormous implications for the country’s reputation.

In addition to a ruthless and opportunistic prime minister, who uses all means and methods to save his own skin, the image of the institutions and the democratic state, which have already suffered irreparable blows during the Mitsotakis governments, is completely disintegrating.

The head of the state investigation agency, under the suffocating pressure to change the narrative all at once, is forced to self-repudiate and cancel as unfounded the same conclusion that he proudly presented to the entire country weeks ago. He even agrees to withdraw the controversial passage that bothers the prime minister, namely the assessment of the cause of the fireball that does not fit the reheated scenario of “silicone oils”. In the end, he gets dizzy from the many back and forths and starts to get confused. Sometimes like this, sometimes… like that.

The government finds that the donor, who is the prime minister’s sister’s son-in-law, but a fool, has stopped serving the “narrative”. He is not interested. That is why it “resigns” him through its representative, placing all the responsibility for the fiasco on him. However, foreign experts have also been involved in the fiasco, who enlisted to shed light on the mystery of the fireball and ultimately were left… unpaid by the Greek State (which, however, spent 4.5 million euros on the “invalid” report!).

Pressures and threats

Pressures, threats and blackmail are beginning to surface. Prominent experts are forced to back down and, under the onslaught of negative publicity (organized by government cronies), to recant their conclusions. Others, clearly incompetent, appear out of nowhere as self-appointed advocates of the government narrative, while the scientific integrity of both is being questioned in a crossfire! Added to the absolute chaos is the… ex officio intervention of the bankrupt “internet cops”, that is, those who control “fake news” by reproducing their own “news”, always in the service of the government version. And after all this comes the… God-sent intervention of the “independent judiciary”, which remains silent about the alleged orgies and arbitrariness of the investigator who has taken over the case, but orders an investigation into the accuracy of the findings ordered by the government itself. That is, Mitsotakis !

In addition to the rape of logic, we are talking about a discrediting of institutions, Parliament, the judiciary, the scientific community and of course the country itself, the likes of which I have never encountered in my thirty-five years of journalism.

Kalogiros case

To all these unique things that make Rama’s Albania look like a model of democracy, add a version of a Latin American crime thriller that would make a splash on Netflix. The cause of death of the unfortunate Vasilis Kalogerou has been kept secret for two months, precisely so as not to attempt a connection with the Tempi case! Improbable science fiction theories are being formulated, the competent medical examiner requests a self-exclusion for reasons of sensitivity, but in the end he remains, and at the same time all kinds of slander are being leaked that insult the memory of the deceased: He was excessively religious and saw visions like the early Christian. He was crazy and took antipsychotic drugs. He committed suicide. No, wrong! He was not crazy, but he was taking medication for his heart, which betrayed him because he had the brilliant idea of ​​walking 18 kilometers through the rocks. They had cut off the phalanx on his left index finger with a pruner and sent it to his family as a souvenir . No, wrong! The wolves ate it after his death. There was an eyewitness to his kidnapping. Yes, but he was unreliable, says the other donor, a representative of the Hellenic Police. No, wrong again! He was reliable, but we cannot find the connection with the owners of the vehicle, who, according to the witness, robbed him. So let the Homicide Department figure it out…

Hey, aren’t you a little ashamed? I’m honestly ashamed of the corruption of the memory of a very young person, but I’m more ashamed of the disgrace of this country that is run by a mafia state and sworn public servants…

(*) George Harvalias is a journalist and political analyst, specializing in geostrategic issues. He was born in Athens and graduated from the Moraitis School. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Economics, Law School, University of Athens and continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Kent, Great Britain.