The rape and murder of 60-year-old American biologist, Suzanne Eaton, by 27-year-old Giannis Paraskakis, in Crete, brought back to the forefront the phenomena of crime and delinquency on the island.
The "war" on the Internet is intense, with many attacking the Cretans for the devaluation of human life and the people of the island responding, emphasizing that these phenomena are observed, unfortunately, throughout Greece.
A Cretan, Dr., takes a place in this informal confrontation with a shocking article. Pedagogy, historical researcher and author, Mr. Haris Stratidakis. In his article, entitled "Did human life in Crete become cheap?", Published on rethemnosnews.gr, Mr. Stratidakis asks relentless questions to his compatriots.
Among other things, he records a series of tragic incidents in Crete and observes: "Similar events occur in other parts of Greece, but nowhere was a young man heard to kill a scientist in the car to rape her. Nowhere in Greece do we see the same traffic violations being treated with the condescension that happens on our island. "Nowhere in our country do shepherds trample agricultural farms with the same ease, nowhere do they put their sheep to eat the grass around hotel pools, nowhere else did they shoot a former prefect and blow up his house because he did not bow to them." .
"These events and dozens of others can not be accidental, unless we want to go blind, until our field is the one that is violated and our own wife or daughter is the one who is raped and murdered. It seems that something did not go well on our island with some of the what are considered as "values" of […] Certainly this is not our Crete "he underlines.
Read the full article by Mr. Stratidakis:
ΠTwenty years ago, when my wife and I were middle-aged, an incident happened to her, to which I had not paid much attention. He had to come to the village, where I had workers, by KTEL and get off at a Mylopotamitic fork, from where I would pick it up by car. But because I was late, he took the road, walking no more than a quarter of an hour. When I met her, she was furious that I had left her alone. Of the dozens of "farm" cars she had encountered, almost all of her drivers had honked, made obscene gestures and -some- not accidental gestures.
A Sami woman by origin, she reminded me of that incident a few days ago, when we learned that a sixty-year-old biologist, who was coming to Crete several times to attend a scientific conference, had disappeared and was found murdered and raped. Our indignation, and that of almost all of the locals, was heightened when we learned that the killer had deliberately beaten her twice with his car, raped her in a semi-state, locked her in the trunk and thrown her into a German gallery, in which it was discovered by chance.
The profile of the killer? He was an everyday person: young, Cretan, under thirty, married, child, son of a prominent member of the local community. This man had tried to do the same at least three times in the past, two of them to foreign women. Of course, he had chosen them because of their origin and the absence of "soy", so that he could later discover their fate and demand his punishment.
There are many incidents. In the same area, an individual recently killed the chairman of the local council, because he did not accept the encroachment of public property by him. A little further east, another captain recently killed his brother, who had returned as an immigrant from abroad, because he was claiming his encroached property.
Next door, in my own prefecture, Rethymno, the bodies of two immigrant women from Bulgaria are still missing, for more than a year. A cursory search of newspapers and the internet shows that the problem with women, especially the "vulnerable", can no longer be hidden. It is not only Cyprus of the serial killer, it is also Chania and Rethymno that we mentioned, it is also Lassithi with the coach who raped his 14-year-old athlete, it is also Heraklion of the 48-year-old father who raped his daughter.
Certainly not our Crete, of the treatment of women as animals, of abductions, of hashish plantations and of the devaluation of the life and honor of immigrants. But there is also this Crete, of all the above but also of the total violation of the law, of the captaincy, of "ep 'mai' go", of the manhood, of the cup, of audacity and of the well-known politicians who cover them .
Similar incidents occur in other parts of Greece, but nowhere was a young man heard to kill a scientist in the car to rape her. Nowhere in Greece do we see the same traffic violations being treated with the condescension that happens on our island. Nowhere in our country do shepherds trample agricultural farms with the same ease, nowhere do they put their sheep to eat the grass around hotel pools, nowhere else did they shoot a former prefect and blow up his house because he did not bow to them.
These events and dozens of others cannot be accidental, unless we want to go blind, until our field is the one that is trampled and our own wife or daughter is the one who is raped and murdered. It seems that something went wrong on our island with some of its considered "values". Do the power of each soybean and its "kozi" eventually lead to the ignorance of those who do not have corresponding backs? Aren't cups, the industrial entertainment of thousands of people at weddings and dances, and the gunshot wounds and murders a tradition?
Was the cult of alcohol to blame, starting with the "little men" of the two years that we are happy to see dipping their finger in the glasses of tsikoudia? Is it our fault that we admire our minors when they take the wheel in their hands? Is it our fault that we tolerate black shirts being beaten by children who came to our place to study, offering us their family's candy? Is it our fault that we let the Cretan girls who led our compatriot to Ioannina to suicide circulate next to us without shame?
For all this and much more it could not have happened. Probably our society failed…
Source: First Topic