STAVROS KONTONIS

The sharpest accusation in what the former minister said about the new penal code was his claim that it was an 'extreme example of the corrupt intertwining of the former SYRIZA government and the oligarchy.'

A former justice minister has declared publicly that the government of which he was a member deceitfully voted into law a new Penal Code right in order to benefit certain individuals,

A former SYRIZA justice minister that the last-minute approval of the new Penal Code by Parliament determined the timing of elections as the government postponed them for one week to pass it into law.

The debate that was triggered yesterday by the conviction of Golden Dawn as a criminal organisation once again highlights the grey zones in which Mr. Tsipras’ government operated.

'We do not permit the neo-Nazis and murderers of Pavlos Fyssas [a Greek antifascist rapper murdered by Golden Dawn] to defend the Constitution., said ex-justice minister Stavros Kontonis.

The “football fest that the government and its subsidiary, the Hellenic Football Federation, promised turned into an orgy of violence, which one fears will again go unpunished  

What was resoundingly proven is that the battle was waged over who will control EPO, refereeing, and the Court of Arbitration, and not over “clean” football.