“No idiot has the right to blacken his service and the celebration of a historic national day with racist slogans of hatred and xenophobia”
Mar 28th, 2010 by Conor McCabe
Following on from yesterday’s post of racist chants by members of Greece’s coast guard special forces, this is taken from Kathinerini / International Herald Tribune:
RACIST MARCHERSCoast guard suspends head of special forces over chants
The coast guard yesterday suspended the head its special forces after some of its members were videotaped shouting racist slogans during Thursday’s Independence Day parade in the capital. The coast guard has ordered an internal investigation to determine exactly who was involved in the chanting of slogans such as: “You do not become a Greek, you are born one,” and “We’re going to spill your blood, Albanian pig.” Reacting to the video, which was uploaded onto the Internet, Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis remarked, “No idiot has the right to blacken his service and the celebration of a historic national day with racist slogans of hatred and xenophobia.”
