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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Video showing police assaulting COVID-19 lockdown demonstrators in the capital's neighborhood of Nea Smyrni brought outrage from citizens and rivals of the New Democracy government which had been lenient in enforcing the measures.
Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said there will be a review of action by the police who said they had been attacked by a small group but video showing they were the aggressors, leading to another bigger protest rally there later in the day on March 7.
He said that there “is no excuse for police violence,” but government spokeswoman Arisotelia Peloni blasted critics, especially the major opposition SYRIZA who she said was “investing in social tension.”
“Unfortunately, (SYRIZA leader Alexis) Mr. Tsipras is seeking, while hospitals are full, squares of newly indignant people where (safety) measures are not observed,” she said, the government criticized both for being lax and tough.
Trying to deflect criticism of police brutality, some government officials said 11 police officers were injured in the brawl, suggesting that demonstrators also ma have been agitators, the video showing that largely wasn't so.
Interior Minister Makis Voridis told SKAI a man seen in the footage beaten by police wasn't an innocent bystander “who suddenly came under an unprovoked police attack,” and “may have been involved in other incidents,” offering no proof.
Tspiras, who during his 4 ½ years in office before being ousted in July 7, 2019 snap elections utilized police to crush anti-austerity rallies and other protests this time demanded the firing of Chrysochoidis and the Hellenic Police chief.
“How much longer will you allow this crescendo of police violence and arbitrariness under the pretext of observing the safety protocols that you and your government officials are constantly violating?” he asked of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Tspiras had earlier complained the government was failing in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and now said he was upset they were trying to deal with it by being tough against the health measures violators.
The center-left Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata, whose party is politically irrelevant, blasted the government as “divisive and provocative with its authoritarianism.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.