In a breathtaking landscape that once inspired poets, an insensitive structure has sprouted, resembling a warehouse.
However, the issue isn’t about aesthetics; it’s that this construction is located in a protected area where development is prohibited.
This construction isn’t the work of a reckless citizen who disregards laws. It’s commissioned by a Holy Bishopric. They knew from the start that they were breaking the law, but they didn’t care.
After all, laws are meant to be followed only by law-abiding citizens.
The building, intended to be a monastery, was halfway completed without any authority reacting. This is similar to the construction of a cove in the area of Ammos Kamouri.
Rocks were cut with heavy machinery to build the cove in front of Joe Lo’s mansion, who had previously donated €300,000 to the Church (as well as in front of other mansion owners), but no one took notice.
For the illegal construction, an illegal fundraiser was also held.
Ten euros for one raffle ticket, with incentives (apart from the master’s blessing and perhaps some favourable treatment in the afterlife), a gold medallion of Saint Christopher worth €1500 for the lucky winner, and other lavish gifts.
Perhaps olive oil, belts, small icons, amulets, to keep us from straying from sanctity.
In a parallel universe, the government rents a piece of land to a private individual for €6,000 per year. The individual builds a structure on the plot to use it as a factory.
At some point, after halting the factory operations, the individual sublets the structure to the government (to which the land belongs) for €135,000 to be used as a storage facility for the Pharmaceutical Services.
And while over time the structure is deemed unsuitable for storing drugs, the contract is renewed until 2045. Until God takes pity on us and sends a lightning bolt to wake us up.
And when we wake up and realise what’s happening around us, our leaders tell us, “the safety of the drugs is a priority, don’t ask about the rest.”
If they cared so much about the safety of the drugs, why did they pay for years to expose them to heat and rain? Even now that they’ve been destroyed, they tell us, “the damage wasn’t that big, only €880,000.”
And while all these events blatantly prove that we live in a mafia state (and not just a banana republic as we thought), it took 9 hours of testimony from Makarios Drosiotis to convince the investigative committee that we live in a mafia state, as titled in his book.
