Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos made the following statement regarding the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki:
“I condemn in the most unequivocal manner yesterday’s desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki. It is an abhorrent act that is a brutal insult to the memory not only of the Jewish Community, but of the Greek people as a whole.
I want to assure our fellow citizens, and especially the Jewish Community, that the Greek authorities will do whatever is humanly possible to identify and arrest the perpetrators of this flagrant act of anti-Semitism and intolerance, which is incompatible with the democratic values of tolerance and multiculturalism that reflect Greek society.”
May 30, 2014