A wilderness with tigers | Dawn

Leandros Polenakis writes (AUGI 3/ 3/ 2024), among others, in one of his usual, excellent texts: “Shakespeare himself characterizes, in “Titus Andronicus”, Rome “a wilderness full of tigers”. In this final decadence, which turns the Republic into a wilderness full of tigers, we live. This wilderness, where all the tigers and all the abominations of the monsters roam free, was what cut the thread of the life of the only 28-year-old Kyriaka Griva. Her killer was simply the instrument of this desolation that comes from the depths of a male-dominated and backward society in which he treads to perpetuate – with a clear conscience – a shameful and trifling establishment order of things. Which additionally rules the country today, rapidly increasing its deterioration.

Kyriaki Griva was murdered because she was a woman. She was murdered because no one was there to protect her, because she was a woman. If he was a pedophile and pimp, with the flag in his hand in the church, the pictures with the archpopes of intolerance and the relations with the ruling party, a whole system would put all the dogs of war to protect him. Let’s not forget that the district attorney proposed (and the MOD president voted in favor of) the acquittal of Mihos from the charges of rape and pimping an 11-year-old girl.

This is the wilderness of democracy that lets tigers roam free. To kill because they can. No one was there to protect Kyriaki Griva’s democratic right to exist. The police department of Aghii Anargyri did not exist for her. Not even an officer on duty. Not even a patrol car. No mobilization for its protection. No purpose at the entrance. Nothing. Only wilderness. Let’s remember the advice to would-be femicides given (21/6/2021) by the deposed EL.AS trade unionist. Stavros Balaskas, after the femicide in Glyka Nera, in order to understand who are the tigers and wolves (according to lawyer Thanasis Kabayanni) who are leading an entire society to desertification and fascism.

They are the same wolves who were touched by the flag – Georgia Lale’s complaint (the same ones who were not touched by the flag in the hands of Mihos), with whom the Minister of Foreign Affairs Giorgos Gerapetritis hastened to agree, ordering a work of art to be taken down.

This is the wilderness in the age of monsters, as it rushes from the mouth of sad Chrysochoides or from the mouth of Floridis along with the soil of the Tempes. Or as it is drummed up by the horrible scumbag parliamentarians of the ND. (in the sense of participating in a monstrous shadow theater), at the moment when they were applauding ah Karamanlis and the prime minister without a trace of dignity. Of course the prime minister is no exception to the rule of a murderous state, where there are always too many teachers and doctors and never enough policemen.

Especially when it comes to femicides in front of a police station. While, despite their rarity, they are always heroically present to kill delinquent Roma youths like Nikos Sampanis (with the compliments of their political superior Takis Theodorikakos), children like Alexis Grigoropoulos, gender “abnormal” femininities like Zak/Zaki Kostopoulos, angels with a raised fist like Vasilios Maggos.

The police officers were heroically present at the protest rally outside the Agioi Anargyro police station, as they are at every protest rally. Ready to beat, arrest, ready to testify falsely and be believed by investigators and prosecutors. A Republic of wilderness, tiger and wolf, but not wolf hunting.

That’s why I cringe every time I hear the cry of “never again.” Tigers don’t understand such things. They don’t even allow the word “femicide”. Because they know that when the language is heard, the wilderness takes shape. And you can fight her. This they are furiously hostile to, regardless of the number of victims. “The limits of language” said L. Wittgenstein “are the limits of the human mind. All I know are those for which I have words.’ And when the words end, the wilderness begins.