An incident occurred during the joint press conference of Kyriakos Mitsotakis with his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte.
The incident occurred when a foreign journalist asked a question about refugees and Push Back in the Aegean.
In particular, the journalist asked the Prime Minister "when will you stop lying about push backs and what is happening to refugees in Greece", adding that it offends the intelligence of all journalists in the world and even accuses him of narcissism.
In the Prime Minister's attempt to answer, the journalist interrupted him, with the result that the Prime Minister, obviously irritated, told her that "you will not come to this building to insult me".
A foreign journalist asked a question about the refugee and the #pushbacks #Refugees in the Aegean
K. # Μητσοτακης: "You will not come to this building to insult me" pic.twitter.com/28BcKIO7rJ
- Leonidas Kouliavetas (@leo_kouliavetas) November 9, 2021
"You will not come to this building to insult me"
"I know that in the Netherlands you have the culture of asking questions directly to politicians, which I respect. "What I can not accept is that you come to this office and insult me or the Greek people with accusations and expressions that are not accompanied by tangible evidence when this country is struggling with the immigration problem, it has saved hundreds if not thousands of lives at sea." said the Prime Minister first.
"Every day we rescue people at sea and at the same time block ships coming from Turkey, as we have the right to do, in accordance with international law, and wait for the Turkish Coast Guard to return them to Turkey. So instead of blaming Greece, you should blame those who systematically use tools to push people out of a safe country, because I must remind you that people in Turkey are not in danger. You have to blame them. We have a tough but fair policy on immigration ", added Mr. Mitsotakis.
"Have you ever been to Samos?" You have not gone. You will not come to this building to insult me. I answer now and you will not interrupt, as I listened to you very carefully. If you go to Samos you will find a very good structure with hygienic conditions, playgrounds and it has nothing to do with what we had in the past. "I do not allow anyone to point the finger at this government and accuse me," the prime minister concluded.
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