Saturday, September 16, 2006

Money talks

The chickens are coming home to roost it appears. The Mevgalgate bribery scandal which broke here in Greece last week continues to grow in scale and extent. The strangest part of this whole sorry story is the role played by the head of the municipality of Thessaloniki, Panagiotis Psomiadis who has close political links with those accused of taking bribes from the Mevgal diary company. Psomiadis, it seems has decided that he, like Jesus Christ, is the victim of betrayal by those around him. It's hard though to see in his carefully coiffered, expensively besuited presence any resemblance.


If such comparisions are not outrageous enough, he has started to play the “northern” card, telling the assembled journalists that they are bunch of snotty - nosed Athenians punks. This has been the classic tactic used by local authority officials for decades, whenever somebody criticises Town hall, they always cry that Athens is to blame, that those down South care little for their northern compatriots.

Images courtesy of Country Boy + Girl



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