Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, visited Thessaloniki’s Hippocrates Hospital on Wednesday afternoon in order to see those injured in the arson attacks recorded during the night at the homes of three New Democracy officials.
Accompanied by the Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, and the Minister of Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, the prime minister visited hospital wards and was briefed on the condition of the injured. One of them, the 70-year-old mother of ND political candidate Aphrodite Nestora, is hospitalized intubated in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit, with burns all over her body.
After thanking the hospital staff for the treatment and care they provided to the injured, he expressed the hope that everything would go well with the woman who is fighting a hard battle in intensive care, while sending a message to the perpetrators of the attacks that they will be arrested and brought to justice.
“I would like once again to repeat that violence has no place in an organized society. And those who cloak themselves in the mantle of social struggles in order to carry out these actions are nothing more than ordinary criminals,” he said and added: “They will be treated as such, I have absolute confidence in the Hellenic Police and the prosecuting authorities. We will find those who committed this vile act and we will bring them to justice to be tried and all responsibilities will be assigned, as they should be in a law-abiding state.”
The barrage of attacks
The arson attacks took place successively, and only a few minutes apart, at dawn at the homes of the president of the ND Administrative Committee in Thessaloniki, Zisis Ioakeimovits, the former MP for Thessaloniki B, Savvas Anastasiadis, and political candidate Aphrodite Nestora.
In addition to the latter’s mother, who suffered serious burns, A. Nestora herself is hospitalized with minor burns on her hands, while her father and two other people living in the same building are suffering from respiratory problems.