In the halfway of Athens an incidental occurred which successful itself sounds like joke: constabulary detained… constabulary officersafter the struggle astatine the Acropolis.
According to accusation ΕΛ.ΑΣ (Greek Police), connected the evening of April 6, a verbal struggle occurred betwixt two employees of the aforesaid service, which rapidly went beyond the scope of a mean authoritative dispute.
Both participants were taken to the Acropolis Area Crime Investigation Unit.
Recrimination
The situation developed according to a classic, but not the astir familiar, scenario: the parties filed statements against each other, aft which a transgression lawsuit was initiated.
- violation of weapons laws;
- insult;
- threat;
- damage to someone else’s property;
- false denunciation.
Thus, some constabulary officers turned retired to beryllium some applicants and defendants successful the case.
Authorities’ reaction
The competent authoritative was notified of the incident, and successful narration to the employees:
- service weapons were confiscated;
- An administrative probe process has been initiated.
Further decisions will beryllium made some within the model of transgression proceedings and done interior discipline.
Editorial comment
Such stories ever origin an ambivalent reaction.
On the 1 hand, it is evident that constabulary officers are the aforesaid people, and conflicts betwixt them are possible, arsenic successful immoderate different profession.
On the different hand, we are talking astir a work where subject and self-control are not conscionable a nonrecreational requirement, but the ground of nationalist trust.
That is why such incidents are perceived differently: not arsenic an mean quarrel, but arsenic a situation successful which the unspoken bound of authoritative work is violated.
Formally, the system worked – intervention, protocol, investigation. But the information itself remains indicative: adjacent within a structure designed to guarantee order, this bid cannot ever beryllium preserved.
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