For the crime of Tempofor which as he said “the government is trying to cover up”, his relationship with Alexis Tsipras and his words Stefanou Kasselakis about the “jungle”, but also the reasons why he decided to join SYRIZA, spoke Nikos Pappas.
The former basketball player of Panathinaikos, AEK, Panioni, Kolossos and Bilbao was a guest on the couch of “Smile and Again”, where he also found a very good acquaintance of his, Nikos Syrigos, he talked about his involvement in politics and for his candidacy in the European elections.
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“I am new to SYRIZA. The reason I joined is to fight the regime we all know. I don’t know people and situations very well. I went to the Congress (of SYRIZA) to listen to people who spoke about problems concerning society, suggestions, opinions and solutions. Unfortunately a lot of it was spent in infighting because of the introversion that has been around for a long time. Nevertheless, I think that it had a positive sign, the party is more united and healthy. Let’s focus on the opposition and the upcoming European elections.
I have good relations with Alexis Tsipras and Stefanos Kasselakis. I don’t see it as clearly partisan, we identify with our ideology. I didn’t come to the party to lose myself or to be consumed by such situations. There are a thousand and two scandals and we are dealing with questionnaires,” Nikos Pappas initially said.
And he continued: “I don’t care who gets a blank check. It burns me that even the murderers from Tempe are unpunished, I am sickened by the arrogance and incompetence of this government, which systematically tries to cover up this crime. We all want justice to be served, we are outraged by this. How will justice be served?
In a committee – fiasco that presided over by a “clown”, Markopoulos who laughs and brags, and Karamanlis goes there and answers with arrogance and pride as if he has lost his own family inside. Where do the poor relatives in Europe run to find their justice? who are collecting signatures to lift immunity? Since they have done everything right why don’t they accept the waiver? Europe condemns us and we question the European Parliament. Who are the supporters of “we stay in Europe”. What country that respects its citizens and institutions would not have delivered justice a year after the crime? Who watched The Examiner and didn’t want to break the TV? I will not bother with the SYRIZA questionnaire when the murderers go unpunished“.
How does he comment on the immediate cleansing of the names of the victims in the Constitution? “As the scene of the tragedy was set, so was this. I may be accused of saying these things because I am running as a candidate with SYRIZA, but I cannot cover this up. Do you have to be a neo-democrat or a Syrian or a communist, an Olympian or a Panathinaiko to ask for the self-evident and the given? To fight for justice. All of them are out and “threshing” with institutional positions, political titles and they answer as if they own the country”.
And he added: “I wonder with some people how they look their children in the eye when they cover up the death of 57 people, the majority of them children, and they are not ashamed. Let the people show it with their vote when the time comes and not look at the shot or the their pocket. They are murderers. Karamanlis appointed 250 people there in Serres. If you include their family, it came out. Because they are us, our aim is higher for us. I’m afraid he’ll swallow me up in the system, but what can I do if I don’t speak?”
“If I don’t take care of it, who will? Those ‘Barbados?’
For himself, he said: “I live in a country where I want to know what’s going on. Everything I’ve collected in my life, I owe to the people who shouted my name in the stands. I can’t stay detached. I can’t to the fans who applauded me and he was calling my name so I wouldn’t know his problems. I am the present and the future, if I don’t take care of it, who will? Are these “Barbados” the obsolete ones who command our lives? I quit basketball at 32, I had 5 more years in basketball that I could have made three times what anyone would have given me. I quit basketball for that reason. I will come forward at any cost and no matter what,” he emphasized.
As Nikos Pappas revealed, “my father in the countryside always tried to define what was fair and right for me. From a young age I was told things about my friends who came from Albania and my father told me that it doesn’t make any difference if you are Albanian or whatever.my values i will not change them at any cost. Stefanos Kasselakis won me over when he told me that I would get involved in the “jungle” to fix all those who ruined the “jungle” and not to ruin others. I’d rather be in the 3% and be gone than in the 40% of killers. I care about them fighting the system. I am impressed by the progress of Stefanos Kasselakis”.
Nikos Pappas with Katerina Notopoulou at the SYRIZA Conference
Among other things, Nikos Pappas referred to Giorgos Liagas: “I have not followed what Liagas said. When the “controversy” with Giorgos Liagas took place there was no thought of the European elections. If we play darts he will lose because he is in my field, but and in his field he doesn’t even win in the part against us. every time I’ve faced Liagas it’s “another day at the office”. Of course I’d go on his show, what time is it?”, he pointedly commented.
“It bothers me that figures like this, who sell their souls on the altar of television viewing. Dignity above all. I’m not saying this to blame Liagas, I’m saying it in general. I’m waiting to meet in person on his show if he calls me” , Nikos Pappas concluded.
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