Greek Court drops Attorney Innocence say, slams Rightist Party as Criminal, But Leftist Killers=Free
*Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- In the Latest Development at a Long Politico-Judicial Saga, with various Wider Ramifications, apparently due to reach Strasbourg's ECHR sooner or later, a 3-Member Court in Greece Rejected the Conclusions of its Attorney, who had mostly Found the main bulk of a Rightist Party Innocent on 2019, and, on the Contrary, Now Condemned them all on 2020, collectively, as a "Criminal Organisation", including for a Bloody Quarrel with a Deadly Knife of a Marginal Fan who admitted his responsibility, while, However, the Cold-Blood Murders by Gun Shots on 2 Peaceful Rightist Militants, and the Serious Wounding of a 3rd, shortly afterwards, also Back on 2013, curiously, Still Remain, 7 Years Later, Totaly UnPunished and withOut Any known Findings.
Controversial Rightist Party "Golden Dawn", often Accused for alleged Past Complacency by Some among its Old Members to Nazism, But, in Fact, being Loudly Nationalistic, (as most Greek Rightists, even the Colonels' 1967-1974 regime who never refered to that, but on the Contrary had as Press Minister a graduate of ...USSR's University, or in the Past, the Metaxas' Authoritarian Government, who accepted War on Fascism and NAZIsm in the 1940ies, Winning against the first, and Delaying the latter's Access to Middle East Oil Resources, thus Facilitating Allies' Defense there, and Obliging Hitler to Seek Oil via Russia's Caucasus, Resulting in Stalingrad's defeat, and 3rd Reich's Energy Deficit, Decisive for the War's Outcome, as Ardeches' Tanks Battle proved), Rised Rapidly from Only about 0,2% Before 2011, Up to around 15% on 2013, having, in the Meantime, Become Repeatedly Elected, at Various Votes, (f.ex. in Parliament, Cities, EU Elections, etc), as the 3rd Party of the Country, During the Harsh Financial Crisis and Scandals which had Notoriously Surfaced from 2009 in Greece, Even Threatening, more or less, the entire "€uro"Area then, to the Point to Eclipse, and even "Hi-Jack" Attention even from EU-China relations ! (See, f.ex., relevant "Eurofora"s NewsReports from the "G-20" Summit of 2011 at Cannes, France, in : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/gpapandreouhijacksg20.html + http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozycounselorformulaongreece.html + http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozyhailsformulaendorsementbysamaras.html, etc).
They had Profited, mainly, from some Negligence, Errors and/or "Empty Space" Left Then by the Maistream Center-Right ChristianDemocrats/EPP in Greece, vis a vis Exceptionaly Hard Problems which had Suddenly Emerged at that Period of Time, including an UnPopular "Gro-Ko" Strategy; of Right-Left Deals in UnPrecedented Coalition Governments with Declining then, Controversial and UnPopular "PASOK" "Socialists", (who had practicaly Ruled the Country, Most of the way Since 1981 up to the End of 2011, amidst Growing various Scandals, Nepotism, Corruption, Hidden Secret Financial "Bulbe", Ready to Explode, Later-on, etc), that some Powerful Foreign Circles had apparently Imposed then, to Greece, as also Elsewhere in Europe, then : (F.ex., Even in Germany, on 2013, when Chancelor Merkel, Despite Brillantlly Winning the 2013 Election with around 40%, near Absolute Majority, Thanks also to a Vibrant Campaign including Support to Families to Boost Natality and EU Integration, Finaly was Obliged to a "Gro-Ko" with "Socialists", and Pushed towards a Notoriously more "Laxist" Policy on Non-European Masss Immigration, Under Heavy Pressure also from Turkey, on 2015-2016, Resulting, inter alia, in Germany too, at an "Explosion" of "AfD"'s Rightists)...
"Golden Dawn" would have Never Reached 15% if, f.ex., the Mainstream Parties had Not practicaly Abandoned, a Christian Church, considered to be "the Biggest in the Balkans", and Traditionaly Providing Top Intellectual and Moral Quality, Free Religion Courses, (sometimes Better Even than Philosophy Lessons at Big Lyceums), to be, suddenly, Everyday Harassed, by the Loud Noise, Dirt, Various Petty Aggressions, etc., of something like a ...Middle-East "Bazar", progressively Installed and Imposed all along its Square, around the Church, and Provoking Manifold Problems to the Detriment of the People and Families Living there, to the point that the Priest was practicaly Obliged, After several Vain EFforts to Seek Any Help from the Public Authoriities, to, Desperately, Ask from that Rightist Party's Members to Protect the Relligious Building and its Faithfull, (See the Notorious Case of "Saint Panteleimon", in Athens, on which several Documentary Videos have been Published in the Web).Added to such kind of Events, were also, reportedly, Frequent Help and/or Protection to Elders or Other Fragile People, (particularly in Troublesome City Areas), as well as Regular Distribution of Free Food to Poor People, etc, (that Athens City tried, Later-on, to take over partialy, until EU Aid and Greek State's relevant services Started, Afterwards, to do Better than in the Past, there).
+ More Important : Curiously, still Until Nowadays, "Golden Dawn" seems to have been, during a Long Period of Time, practicaly ... the Only Political Party in Greece which had Clearly Included in its Official Program, a much-Needed Systematic "Purge" of that State's Notoriously Too Numerous Bureaucracy Staff, from All those Scandalously Counter-Productive, Lazy Cushy-Job Holders, and/or Political Lackeys/Sbires of Clientelist Governments of the Past, practicing Nepotism and/or Corruption During Decades, (mainly by "PASOK"'s "Socialists", as Early as Since 1981, throughout too Many Years of various Big Corruption Scandals, Affairs, etc, Even Suspicious Deaths of Key Persons able to Reveal and Denounce them), until this Provoked a Big, but Hidden Public Debt, silently Growing like Cancer, before Suddenly "Exploding" on 2009, and Throwing the Country and all €uroZone in an UnPrecedented Finacial Crisis, (See, f.ex. "Eurofora"s relevant NewsReports from the ChristianDemocrat/EPP's Summit at Bonn, Germany, and from the subsequent EU Summit in Brussels, on December 2009, at : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/merkelbonn.html + http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/papandreou.html
etc).
Among the MainStream Politicians, Only the Current Financial affairs Minister Skylakakis, a former MEP and Anti-Corruption Rapporteur at EU Parliament in Strasbourg, (where he Spoke Often on that Issue with "Eurofora"), in Nowaday's Center-Right Government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis (2019-2020+), is clearly Aware and Willing to really Tackle and Solve this InterRelated Waste, Nepotism, Public Debt, Corruption and Crime "Complex", from which has Suffered Greece and Europe for a Too Long Time ago... Mitsotakis Himself, When he was Minister at Samaras' (another Ex-MEP) former Government of 2012-2014, held a Key Position as former Minister for the Public Administration's Rehaul, in charge of Progressively Purging the State from Scandalously Counter-Productive and/or UnDeserved, often Corrupted Jobs-Holders, (while His own Father had been the Only Greek Prime Minister of a "National Union" Goverment, from All Political Parties, Except One, Elected to Purge the Country from the endemic Corruption of "PASOK"'s "Socialists", on 1989/1990+), as well as for a Crucial Reform of the Notoriously Clientelist, often Corrupted, and Public Money Wasting, then, Radio-TV (Old) "ERT" Media Service. But this, Notoriously, Provoked such a Row, vis a vis Vested Interest-Groups, that That Government (on 2013), suddenly became, perhaps the Only one in the World, to be so much ...Censored by Establishment's Medias, narrowly InterLinked with that "Old ERT''s Status-Quo, via Trade-Unions, etc, that it had been Obliged (as also the Government Spokesman, MP Simos Kedikoglou, had, then, Denounced to "Eurofora", See: ..., etc) to Beg the Governing Party's "Youth" Sector to set up an ...Internet Radio Service, (the Web Medias of Poor People, Worldwide, f.ex. in Haiti...) in order to become Able to Publish its Official "Press Release" in a way Accessible to Citizens !...
Then, CoE's Director in charge of Freedom of Expression, Alerted by "Eurofora", here in Strasbourg, was Inevitably Shocked, and had, Naturaly, Great Difficulties to Realize what was really going on, when we Asked him the Only Question that he had Never Heard in History ; - How the CoE could Protect the elementary Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms of ...A GOVERNMENT (sic !) grossly and systematicaly CENSORED BY ...Oppressive "JOURNALISTS" and Medias of the Establishment, which Refused to Publish Anything from them (re-sic !!)... A Conflict partly Similar to that between US President Trump and "Fake", "Corrupt Media", as he Often Denounces. (Obviously, the Main Victims were the People of that Country, but that's anOther Story)...
At this Critical Juncture, (around End of August 2013), the Rightists, (who are, Meanwhile, Growing Fast in most Converging Polls, while Many Simple People Urge the Center-Right's Government to Go Ahead on Reforms against the Nepotism, Clientelism and Corruption of the Past), do their Last Free Move : They Gather All Availabke Evidence and/or Indications of Factual Wrongdoings (from Nepotism to Corruption or other Crimes) by Former "PASOK"/"Socialist" Governments of tha Past and/or Politicians, From 1981 during almost 25 Years, including the Recent "GrO-KO" up to 2013 Included, and lodge a Collective Complaint against that Party, Seeking to get it, at last, completely Out of the Country's Government.
They will Never have the Time to do Anything Else : Suddenly, an Obscure, Tragic But Marginal Incident occurs : - A Quarrell betwen Leftist Rapper (Fyssas : Known as "Killah-Pa", i.e. "Killer of the Past", a former syndicalized Steel Worker, as his Father, who gave his Music for Free, Sang for People allegedly Killed by Cops, But also the Sun, and, reportedly wasN't Not Linked to any Political Party), and his Pals, against a Fan of the Rightists (Rupakias), in fact a Poor Guy, Recently Fired from his Job as Driver, Earlier Fan of the ...Communist Party (sic !), seeking some Pocket Money and/or Facilities in kind for his Family, f.ex. Food, Clothes, Bus Travels, etc. who, allegedly Afraid that the Leftists would Attack and Brutalize him, uses a Knife to Dissuade them, from which Fyssas is wounded and later dies, as Rupakias, shocked, Surrenders to the Police and Admits his Fault. This is Blown up and Transformed into a Major Event at the Core of National Politics : All the Leadership of the 3rd Party of the Country is Accused of Premeditated, Planified, and Targeted Political Murder. From Archives criss-crossing, are UnEarthed 2 Old, Different, Clashes between Various Local Militants and Foreign African Vendors or "Antifa"-like Groups, at Various, Separate Events. A Press Attaché is found to prossess, at Home, an Old Hunting Rifle of his Father, with which he was sometimes Exercing himself at a Local Shooting Training Club, while an Elected MP from a Turbulent Suburb, is found to have Registered an Authorized small Pistol for his Security, (etc). Political Speeches (Even More than 10 Years Old) are Analysed. Private Personal Items, even from Childhood, (f.ex. Photos, even Skin Tatouaz, etc), are Searched. (An Equivalent to that Notorious Video of UK's Queen Elizabeth, as a Small Child, Celebrate, with her Father and Mother, ...Hitler's NAZI Party's Electoral Victory Back at the 1930ies, was Not Found here, But such Searches persist). Various UnFavorable Comments from Socio-Political Adversaries are Collected. Various Hypothesis are made, (etc). So that, Piece by Piece, is Systematicaly searched and Build an Overall Image, in order to Accuse all the Collective Leadership of the Party, and Even All its Dozens of Elected MPs, as being key Participants in a Huge "Complot" of an overall "Criminal Organization", (according to the Official Accusation: See Infra).
+ Meanwhile, almost All those Accused, and particularly the Party's Elected Leaders, are Immediately Arrested, by Heavily Armed Anti-Terrorist Squads, (right in Front of Commercial TV Paparazzi), and Closed to Prison. All Democraticaly Elected MPs' Salaries and relevant Revenues are Confiscated, (so that, if they wish to Try to Work for their Mandate, they are Obliged to Sacrifice their own Pocket-Money, for Years)... When, much Later-on, they are, Progressively, Allowed, one by one, at least, to get Out of Jail, they are Confined inside their Homes, their Passports are Confiscated, and they canNot Go Abroad, Neither Travel throughout the Country, Not Even through their City, unless with a Prior Authorisation. Probably Worse : All their eventual Public Statements, made to the intention of the People, Even towards their own Voters, are Systematically and Totaly, ...Censored in their Entirety, by All the Establishment's Medias (Radio-TV, Newspapers, Web Medias, etc), so that, Even when Some may Grossly Slander them in Front of all the Peple, they are Totaly Deprived of any elementary Right to Reply to Critics, Obliged to Stay Muzzled for Years !..
=> In such Conditions, (and Since, f.ex., various "Witnesses" invited by the Accusation's side, were ProLonging, in Public, and Echoed by almost All Etablishment's Medias, a lot of Negative Appreciations on them, While, on the Contrary, All their own eventual Replies, Clarifications, Refutations, etc., were Systematicaly Censored by All Medias of the Establishment), Inevitably, in 5 to 6 Years of such an UnEqual Treatment, and Deprived Even of the Possibility to Freely Move and Meet People, in Addition remaining with their Salaries Blocked (Comp. Supra); it was, Obviously, Inevitable for their Reputation and Trust vis a vis the People to progressively ...Erode, Exposing that Party to a Forced Diminution of its Electoral Results, (since it was, Obviously, Impossible to Realy Make Any efficient Electoral Campain in such Imposed Circumstances (Comp. Supra). So that, in the Latest, 2019 National Election, Despite Just a Slight Dilinution on the Spring 2019 EU Elections, earlier, which allowed for 2 out of 3 MEPs of "GD" to be Voted, on the Contrary, Now, the Rightists, apparently Missed, for a Tiny Difference, the Required Threshhold in order to Enter in the National Parliament, for the 1st time Since a Decade... (with Exceptionaly Numerous Elections).
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>>> But, Surprizingly, After more than 5 Years of Investigations, (2013-2019), Suddenly, the ATTORNEY, Adamantia Economou's, Official Conclusions, Published on December 2019, had clearly ... REJECTED almost All KEY ACCUSATIONS, as Not Proven, and, particularly, the Claim of a Collective Responsibility of All the Party's Direction and of All its Former MPs, for a so-called "Criminal Organisation" : All insciminated Acts are Isolated Events, withOut Links between them, she reportedly stressed. For Rapper Fyssa's death (Comp. Supra), Only Rupakias should be declared responsible, dismissing accusations for Complicity of ...17 other persons : There was No Order to execute, No Plan for it, they were Not Coordinated, they didN't Help him. He appeared there by pure Chance, and acted Alone. Otherwise, he would have received, himself too, an SMS, as all the others did, she pointed out, (inter alia).
On the Contrary, she considered that the Various Local Militants accused for Violence, in the Past, vis a vis Foreign African Vendors, and/or an "AntiFa"-like Group, were, indeed, Guilty, But Not for alleged Attempts to Kill, Only for Attempts to Harm their targets. And asked to declare just 3 Persons Guilty for irregular Arm Detention, as a comparatively Minor Infringment of the Law, the Party's Head, a former MP, and a currently dissident MEP, (who had Left the Party, in the meantime).
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=> After that UnExpected Move, a "Heavy Pressure" on the Judges grew considerably, as Many Foreign Medias (f.ex. German, etc) observed Today...
Among Various Others, Many Thousands of Demonstrators Opposed to the Rightists were exceptionaly Authorized to Parade up to the Court's DoorStep, where they Ostensibly Accumulated, with Written and Oral Slogans, Waiting to Hear the Verdict, (and withOut any Attention to "Social Distancing" Public Health Rules, against the Deadly Virus' Spread, Obliging the Minister in charge of it, to Launch an Urgent Call for due Precautions to be taken, particularly at this "2nd Wave" stage for the Pandemic). A Leftist former Prime Minister takes part to that Demonstration. Several Other Politicians Issue Statements. Inside the Court's Room, inter alia, is cited also the President of a Big and Influencial Trade Union for Judges and Attorneys. All those Accused are Absent. There is also Fyssas' Mother, who "Explodes", when she hears the Condemnation of Dozens of accused People, by Spectacularly Brandissing her 2 Fists, right in front of a lot of "Paparazzi", in an obvious Sign of Victory Crashing those who Lost this case, while, Outside, the Loud Cries of the Mob and calls for Vengeance cover everything,...
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>>> The 3 Members-Court, (composed by Mrs Lepenioti and Tsoulfoglou, as well as Mr Ntokos), indeed Condemned All ... Eighteen (18) Politicians Accused for Links with a "Criminal Organisation", 7 for "Directing" it, and 11 for actively Participating.
Moreover, All those Accused for "Premeditated Manslaughter" in Rapper Fyssas' case were Condemend, (Rupakias, Moreover, for "illegal Arm bearing", etc), with the Only Exception of 2 Dismissed for Doubts.
For "Attempt" to "ManSlaughter", in the Old case of Foreign African Vendors, All 5 Accused were Condemned, as scheduled.
Only at the Other Old Affair of an "AntiFa"-like ("PAME") Group, the Initial Accusation of "Manslaughter Attempt" was Changed into Corporal Harm Attempt, Condemning All 4 Suspects.
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All Mainstream Politicians cited by Establishment's Medias stressed that this elimination of the formerly 3rd Party of the Country was "Good" for "Democracy".
On the Contrary, the Head of "GD" Party, Michaloliacos, in a Brief "Twitter" Message, Found Only at a Marginal Website, Bellied Rumours that he would have "Committed Suicide" (sic !), and Vowed to "Fight up to the End, for our Rights", Pointing at the Fact that "the Condemnation of ALL MPs Shows that Our Persecution was Ideological and Political".
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- The Attorney (Comp. Supra), Bitterly felt "Obliged" to Ask, "Massively", to "Drop All" Individual Demands for "Attenuating Circumstances", argyuing that "it would be too Contradictory, if, from One side", the Court says "that they turn Against Democracy, that they are Guilty of PreMeditated ManSlaughter, and Attempt to Kill, But, from the Other Side, I would propose Attenuating Circumstances", as she Explained.
Therefore, she Only proposed to admit 1 Partialy Attenuating Circumstance for three Former MPs who are Not Accused to participate into Unlawful Acts attributed to the Criminal Ortganisation...
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>>> But, the Most Important Point is, most probably anOther one, (as "Eurofora", and many of those who have Followed this Affair Since the Beginning, Back on 2013, already Know quite well) :
- The Killing of Rapper Pavlos Fyssas (the Fact that Triggered All this Far Reaching Affair, Back on that Autumn 2013), at an Obscure Quarel with a former Communist Party and afterwards Rightist "Golden Dawn" Party, Poor Fan, (Comp. Supra), is, Certainly a Grave Tragic Incident, and it's Good that Justice seems to have been done asap, almost immediately afterwards.
- But Human Lives must Always be Protected from Brutal Violence, withOut Discrimination.
=> In this regard, No Decent Person may stay withOut Feeling Revolted, (More and More, as Precious Time Goes by, withOut doing what is Right and Necessary), by the Scandalous InEquality, the Full Contrast, between what Public Authorities and Civil Society has done after Fyssas' Killing at that Obscure Quarel,
and what they, Curiously, have Not at all done, (Despite a Long Time since the Facts), in the Cases of 3 Obviously Premeditated, Cold-Blood Gun Attacks against Peaceful Young Persons, Murdering 2 of them, and Seriously Wounding the 3rd, withOut Ever Finding, nor Punishing Anyone for such a, UnQuestionably Much More Horrible Crime !
>>> Is it, simply, Because these 3 Other, completely Innocent, Victims, were Not Opponents, But Supporters of "Golden Dawn" ?...
- We are Obviously Speaking of the Notorious and Crystal-Clear Murders By Gun Shots at the Heads of Young George Foundoulis and Manolis Capelonis, added to seriously Wounding Alexandros Gerontas, (who was obliged to be submitted in Multiple Operations in order to Save his Life), while they were Peacefully Guarding the Entrance into a Popular Public Meeting for the Inauguration of a "Golden Dawn"'s New Office, at the North of Athens, on the 1st November 2013, (i.e. just 1,5 Month After the above-mentioned Fyssas' Incident, at Mid-September in that Same Year).
At the 2014 European Elections, Murdered Foundoulis' Father, Lambros, is Elected MEP among the Rightists, and "Eurofora", in 2 Press Conferences at EU Parliament in Strasbourg, Questions Both him, and a new Leftist MEP, Kostantika Kuneva, (from the Other Side of the Political Spectrum: an Historian obliged to work as Cleaner, and viciously Attacked with Vitriol, Seriously Wounded, by Criminals when she struggled for basic Social Rights), about their respective Feelings for Each Other's Cases : And, indeed, their Stance was strikingly Similar, from a Human point of view, well Beyond Political Differences, when they Replied inside a European Values context... (See: http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/humanbridgebetweenopposedvictimsofterrorism.html, etc)
+ But, 7 Years after the First Arrests on Fyssas' case, with 5,5 Years of Court Proceedings, in 453 Sessions and More than 216 Witnesses heard, the 3rd Party of the Country Harassed and Decimated, etc., for One Side,
there isn't, ....Absolutely NOTHING (sic !) for the Other Side !
- In Consequence, the DisProportion, Between the Gravity of these 2 Cases, of Politicaly-related Killings, which occured at the Same Period in Greece, is Huge !
* 1 Dead in Fyssas' case, But 2 Dead + 1 Seriously Wounded in Capeloni/Foundouli/Geronta's cases.
+ Quarrell in Fyssas' case, But Cold-Blood Killings of 2 Peaceful People, in Capeloni/Foundoulis' cases.
+ A Knife with 2,5 Hits in Fyssas' case, But More than +15 Bullets Hit at Capelonis/Foundoulis/Gerontas cases.
+ 1 Suspect acting Alone in Fyssas' case, But Obviously 2 and May be 3 or More in Capelonis/Foundoulis/Gerontas' cases.
+ Immediate Confession and Excuses in Fyssas' case, But a 18 Pages-Long Political Revendication and even "Glorification" (sic !) of the Murders by a Gang, in Capeloni/Foundoulis' cases.
+ The 3rd Party of the Country Persecuted, its Revenues "Freezed", Muzzled, and Called "Criminal Organisation", Added to 16 Elected Politicians Jailed and Condemned as Criminals in Fyssa's case, But ...Nobody Disturbed in Capelonis/Foundoulis/Gerontas' cases !
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=> That Contrast is, Obviously, Too Big, InHuman, Anti-Democratic, and Scandalous,
so that Something Must be Done asap. to Repair and Do Justice !
History will Never Forget.-
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Benedict's "Source" to revitalize Europe : - "The World needs Hope", Pope says, calling to relaunch E.U. via Human Rights !
Paris - Lourdes - Strasbourg : 12 - 17 September 2008.
The vital need to re-launch Europe can be succesfully met by defending fundamental Human Rights of the People, said Pope Benedict XVI in his 1st speech in France, at his meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently chairs the EU.
Sarkozy replied by welcoming Christian and other religions' contribution to indispensable Public Debates on crucial issues which affect Human Dignity, Europe, even Humankind, as BioGenetics.
- "When Europeans will see and personally experience that the inalienable Rights of the Human Person .., those of their free Education, their Family life, their Work, ..their Religious Rights, ..are respected and promoted, then, these Europeans will fully understand the greatness of the European construction and will be actively involved in it", Benedict XVI stressed.
- "It's important that during France's EU Presidency, there is, indeed, a desire for the Church to contribute to protect Human Person's integrity, and I think that there is also a growing Conscience, beyond any polemics, to defend Human Rights, and, thus, contribute to ensure respect for Human Dignity", added to "EuroFora" the Pope's Spokesman, Vatican's Press Director Federico Lombardi.
- "Nobody really told us here that Lisbon Treaty was good for this or that reason to the People. They only told us that we "had" to ratify it, and tried to scare us, but failed", said 2 Irish pilgrims to "EuroFora", after 2 Majority Abstentions in 1999 and 2004 EU Elections and 3 "NO" to Referenda in France and the Netherlands in 2005, followed by the Irish "No" in 2008, during a Decade of EU Crisis since the controversial Turkey EU- bid (1999-2008).
More than .."224 cases of Murders, Torture, "Disappearancies" or Destructions" by "agents of Turkish Security forces", where all those responsible for so heavy Crimes still remain scandalously unpunished, despite regular condemnations of Ankara by Strasbourg''s European Court of Human Rights from 1996 to 2008, were examined the same week by CoE's Ministers, who decided to launch a fresh call "urging" the Turkish Authorities to end this dangerous "virtual Impunity" of criminals, without comparison to European countries.
- "Why not Ukraine, instead of Turkey ?", asked EuroFora a Journalist from "Kiev : the city where it's enough to cross the streets in order to realize that it's a European town", as Sarkozy recently said, before solemnly declaring this week, together with Ukranian President Jushenko and EU Commission's chair Baroso, EU's "recognition that Ukraine is a fully European Country, linked to Europe by culture and History".
Europe's "Christian roots" and Values, with "openess and mutual respect" to other cultures and beliefs, were highlighted by Sarkozy in harmony with Benedict XVI.
The Human person should be protected "from his inception until his natural death", added the Pope, faithful to BioEthic principles defended by his predecessor and collaborator, John Paul II, of topical importance in France, Europe and the World today, as Sarkozy announced :
- "Fast and important progres in Genetic Science and procreation raise delicate BioEthical Questions to our Democracies", which "involve our view of Humans and Life, and can lead to Social Mutations. That's why they cannot remain only a business of experts", hestressed.
- "It's Politician's responsibility to set a proper framework for such Public Debates", as "France will do on BioEthics in 2009". "Religious and Philosophic traditions must take part, with their ideas and centuries' long experience : A positive Laicity is an open invitation to Dialogue", he said.
- "France engaged in Europe at another Debate on how to make Financial Capitalism more moral", and the "Social doctrine of the Church fits well what is at stake in modern Globalized Economy"
- "But, a "Real Dialogue is not for an elite of a Globalized world : It penetrates deep into the People : That's why Churches should actively participate : .. It's bringing New Oxygen to Public Debates", stressed Sarkozy.
- "Democracy must not be cut off Reason", which is "compatible with Faith", thanks to "the meeting between Christianism and Greek philosophy ", he added, referring to Pope's views. "It means to advance with logic arguments, search what's best and respect common principles of thinking :... It's an everyday need for Public Administration and the Political Debate", he added.
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Pope Benedict's 1st visit to France looked like the start of a brillant, manifold demonstration that this was well-founded and could become true in the lives of the People : After its Theoretical foundations unfolded at a "speech to the world of Culture", inaugurating Bernadins' cultural centre, and its dogmatic instrument shaped at an address to the Clergy in the Historic Notre Dame' Cathedral, he started to resolutely reach out to the People :
The move went upwards like Bach's music : Begining with a call to more than fifteen thousand enthousiastic Youngsters gathered at Notre Dame's parvis with overnight celebrations, it gained strength in an impressive open-air Mass at Paris'central Invalides'area facing Alexander III's bridge, attended by more than 150.000 people, French Prime Minister Fillon, many Ministers, Foreign Ambassadors, etc, and culminated in a series of pan-European Mega-meetings at Lourdes 150th anniversary, together with all French Bishops, EU Commission's vice-Chairman Barrot, and some 200.000 enthousiastic People from all over Europe and beyond : After a Sea of Lights astonishingly braved Saturday Night's rain, an open-air mass at riverside fields among Pyrenees' Mountains Sunday Morning, was followed on Monday by a Sea of "Compassion" to those facing Health or Life threats, surrounded by an endless gathering of People, whose gigantic dimensions obviously surprised the organisers..
Meanwhile, Benedict had the occasion to speak to the French Priests at Notre Dame of Paris, and with the Bishops at Lourdes, where they prepare a crucial November plenary meeting, due to take important decisions on imminent EU debates and choices about Europe's identity, BioEthics, etc.
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- "A new way of thinking about Laicity has become necessary", agreed the Pope with President Sarkozy at Elysee. While keeping the "distinction between Politics and Religion, to guarantee Citizens' Liberty", "religion is important for shaping Consciousness and contributing, together with others, to create a basic Ethical Consensus in society".
- "Searching Essential realities", (as "God" for christians), needs "Speech : "Logos" in greek, i.e. Reason", "able to shape a Community","with creative work transforming Human History". But "Dialogue" is instrumental for "Reason", because it's the way to "search" for Truth", in "Liberty", according to Greek Platonic Philosophy, with Socrates' dialectics. "Reason" implies "Spirit and Liberty", hence the polyphonic "Music" of "Dialogue", in a responsible, "well balanced" way, to avoid "destruction".
Starting with a "Dialogue between christians and intellectual or artistic movements" highlighted at Bernardins' Cultural Center. with former Presidents Chirac and Giscard d'Estain, UNESCO's chair Anastassopoulos, etc., as well as representatives of Muslim Communities, (including a separate Turkish), after contacts with Jews at Vatican's Embassy, the Pope turned towards the People :
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To French Priests : "Church built on the rock" !
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- Speaking to thousands of French Priests at Notre Dame's Cathedral, Benedict highlighted a solid "Church built on the Rock" of conscious and active persons, transmitting "a lively, energetic and sharp" "God's Speech, actively working on Human History".
"Praying together" with "representatives of Christian Churches and ecclesiastic communities", (as Orthodoxes, Armenians, Protestants, etc), he called "to reinforce the Unity of the church", against "any form of Division", around Holy Spirit', "the Word","Christ's Justice", and "Love" to fellow- humans : Essentials which "resume all holy scripts", as he said.
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To Young People : "New Horizons"
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To some 15.000 enthousiastic Young People at Notre Dame's parvis, along Seine's river, Benedict spoke about "the Energy of the Holy Spirit" and "the Mystery of the Cross" : - "The Holy Spirit opens New Horizons to Human Intelligence .. and makes it conscious of the real greatness of Christ's sacrifice, dying and resurecting for World's life".
Some "may slander you as crazy, laugh at you, or even persecute you. But, "the Holy Cross is a symbol of God's love", and "givesmoral strength" : "Witness of People's pains, it's at the same time, a precious, unique expression of their Hopes", he told them at Paris' dawn.
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Invalides' plateau : "People chosen to become God's friends"
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At the 1st open-air Mass in Paris' center area of Invalides, facing the Grand Palais, along the river Seine, during an impressive gathering of more than 150.000, French Prime Minister Fillon, Ministers Alliot-Marie, Bachelot, Dati, Jouyet, Assembly's President Accoyer, Senate's Chair Poncelet, former 1st Lady Bernadette Chirac, former Prime Minister Raffarin, many foreign Ambassadors, and other political personalities were present. (While earlier, from the Socialist opposition, Paris' Mayor Delanoye, artist Robert Hussein a.o. assisted at the Elysee meeting).
But the "Entry Song" focused on the "People chosen to become God's Friends". The September 11 mass was Dedicated to "Saint Chrysostomus, that great priest of Constantinople", with his "wonderful eloquence and great courage to face challenges", who "made out of despaired and godless people, a people of brothers", opening a possibility to "become all one complete entity", as Pope Benedict reminded.
- "Reason never enters in real contradiction with Faith", stressed Pope Benedict, who prepared his speeches for France during a short Summer rest at Brixen/Bressanone's Seminar, whose Library honors both "Faith and Science".. - "We must use not only our Reason, but also our Faith" : "Get away from Idolatry", "cupidity", "avidity for money, power or even knowledge deviating from essential aims", and other "falses appearances". and "build your Home on the Rock", "with the force that Holy Spirit gives to those who let it act in them", he said to the People of Paris.
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Benedict at Lourdes : - "Become Light (even) in the Dark !"
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- "Our World needs Hope", stressed Pope Benedict, addressing an impressive TorchLight procession at Lourdes' sanctuaries, where a Sea of Lights held by Hundreds of Thousands of People gathered at Pyrenee's Mountains from all over Europe astonishingly kept their flames despite a heavy Rain at a windy Dark Night...
- "150 years earlier (1858 - 2008), ..here, in the cave, ... a simple young girl, Bernadette .. saw a Light". "The everyday life of her Family was, however, made of Misery, Sadness, Sickness, Misunderstandings, Rejection and Poverty... It was hard to live in Jail". Today, "we think to all Human Beings who suffer : The innocent Victims who face Violence, War, Terrorism, Hunger, Injustices, Catastrophes, Hate and Oppression, Violations of Human Dignity and of their fundamental Rights, of their Liberty to act and think. We also think to those who face Familial problems, sufferings from Unemployment, Sickness, Infirmity, Isolation, or their situation as Immigrants, without forgetting those who suffer and die for the name of Christ", he said.
- "But the Shadows of the Earth, did not hinder Sky's Light to shine : <<The Light shines in the Dark>>" ..."A Way full of Light opens in Human History even in its Darkest moments" : ..."As Night falls, Christ tels us : <<- Keep your Lamps alight !>>."Hold a Light while walking in the Night .. sums up our condition as Christians on their way : "We need light, and we are called to become Light !", Benedict stressed to People setting in motion Lights, Flags and Songs with enthousiasm.
"<<- She looked at me as a Person, who speaks to another Person>>, the poor girl had noted."Light emerges from such a Dialogue", stressed the Pope : "A small Flame called Hope, Compassion and Tenderness dwells inside those who return after being moved by Lourdes' experience". "Christ .. entrusts us with the Mission to let the Light of Charity shine : To make of our Prayers an Act of Love to our brothers and to Fraternal Charity", he concluded.
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