Citizens on the island of Paros have been at the mercy of thugs for the last three years. This beautiful island in the Aegean receives hundreds of thousands of visitors every year and is basically defenseless against all kinds of crimes and criminals, some of whom rob, rape and commit acts of murder totally undisturbed. This has frustrated them to such a degree, that they are now planning on taking the law into their own hands, by arming themselves with guns to protect their property and loved ones.
The citizens are angry with local police authorities whom they say look the other way on minor crimes and because of this, they add, the appetite of criminals to come to the island has increased ten-fold.
They claim that the savage and brutal attack on the 15-year-old young girl was just another display of the indifference and repeated errors of the local police which lost precious time in investigating the case and there had to be an intervention made by Athens Homicide units to crack the case.
A report on protothema on Monday said that the information that it is receiving from this island and the level of crime is staggering and shows the complete lack of enforcement and protection of both residents and tourists by authorities. One example of this is a recent brutal murder of a local taxi driver there in the center of Naoussa. Witnesses immediately contacted the police but ... no one answered (?).
"It is not the first time something like this happens," locals say. The local police, they add, does what it can to get rid of these cases, closing them in a perfunctory manner. Including cases of rape or armed robberies.
The locals there feel as if they have been pushed against the wall, and want the state to take measures in order to provide adequate policing of the island.
Original article in Greek protothema
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