The Lawyers General Union of Greece has condemned and is threatening to mobilise against the police-state measures proposed by the Ministry of Justice.
The general council of Lawyer Unions of Greece has expressed its opposition to the criminalisation of masking and hooding and the return of the fascist law regarding "insulting authorities". The emergency assembly of the council headed by the president of Greek Union of Criminologists published its decision on Tuesday 24/3 after new totalitarian proclamations by the Minister of Justice who claimed that protesters arrested with 'distorted features' will have no right to monetary exchange of their penalty nor will the universal right for probation be applied to their cases, even after appeal court procedures. The Lawyer's General Council, the highest organ of solicitors in the country with powers ranging to striping individual lawyers of their soliciting permits, has announced that it is ready to mobilize against the police-state legislation
It is widely beleived that the proposed legislation is designed to target and criminalise the ideological scene of anarchism, effectively returning to the 1930s "Idionimo", a law that criminalised communism and led to the displacement of thousands to concentration camps in the greek islands. It is telling that Nea Dimokratia, the ruling party, had in 1979 proposed a law for the displacement of homosexuals in concentration camps. The law collapsed under international pressure and social mobilisation at the time.
The General Council of Lawyers condemned the 'anti-hood' law as "deeply undemocratic" and as purely an instrument of propaganda. Regarding the 'insult of authority' law, the rep of the Athens Lawyers Union has expressed bewilderment before "an anachronistic mindset that amidst the crisis is trying to resurrect such laws, which have been condemned in the people's conscience"
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