Moonlight

Maybe It is the later history 's sign of the times. Maybe it has been so since ever. After WW II the rulers in Greece have the habit of doing everything under the moonlight. Most of prosecutions, executions, illegal state operations and more recently, public works, usually take place in the very early morning hours. They are severely trespassing the law threshold but the rulers get away them almost harmlessly and leave great profits to their allied businessmen.
It was 4 o' clock after midnight Sunday when Nikos Beloyannis and his five comrades were secretly executed in 1953; not even the Nazis were executing on Sundays but the Greek fascist regime did it to anticipate the impact of the domestic and international pressuse against the court-martial 's verdict.

Dozens of bulldozers and heavy lorries started banking up olive tree groves in Megara, under the military junta regime 's permission in 1974, in order to pave the place to construct a new refinery for Andreadis, a well-known crook heavily backing the regime with financial means. It was only the locals' immediate response and heavy demonstrations who stopped this violation and made the corporate and police forces to retreat.

Even more recently, Yannis Ragousis, the regime 's Internal Affairs minister, ordered the construction machines to move to Keratea to start working to create an illegal, out-of-any environmental law norm dump site next to the village in order to anticipate the local residents' reaction. Despite this project was rejected by several verdicts of the regional court of justice, the regime feared that any delay would place the whole project to a stake, thus creating a loss for the businessman, the bank and the construction company undertaking the project and a strong affiliate to the regime. The contractor 's construction machines, JCBs, graders and jackhammer compressors arrived at the site in a two riot police squads (MAT) escort and without bearing license plates. The citizens, descendants of a tribe called Arvanites, known for their stubborn character and their persistence, resisted fiercefully to the plot incited by the regime. This made the regime to back off and to negotiate with the municipality and the residents to a more viable solution.

And finally, a new act of cowardess came into light, last night.

As real coward, being aware of its illegal deeds, being afraid of the publicity and public opinion, the regime ruling now the country decided that "the public order in Syntagma square has been διασαλευτεί" . So they decided to "clean up" from the unacceptable "εικόνα" that the central square resembles. Yorgos Kaminis, once-radical mayor of Athens, together with the DA on duty and the support of dozens of riot policemen, ordered 25 lorries to destroy the demonstrating dissidents' camp in Syntagma square, with the excuse of "environlemntal laws violation!". The mayor, since he has been elected to restore the historical center 's good looking, has left the whole area beyond the City Hall into almost Third World situation. It is a place it could best be described as a "human dump site". The Doctors Without Borders organization states that this area has all these characteristics to be considered as a Third-World area concerning drugs trafficking, prostitution, heavy crime, homeless greeks, homeless illegal immigrants, undescribable hygiene conditions.
Eight people were arrested: four Greeks, two Frenchmen, one German and one Romanian, all being accused of violating enironmental regulations (sic!).
And when the people appeared again on Saturday night for their usual daily assembly, a riot police (yes!) lineup was obstructing them of gathering in the center of the square, thus fiercely violating one of the foundamental articles of the Greek Constitution: this is the eleventh article, the one of the right of peaceful gathering and assemblying.