The journalists of the Greek TV channel Skai, don’t let them frighten. After the attack on your wireless home they continue to fight for the freedom of the press. The search for the perpetrators is, meanwhile, difficult.
Devastated Editorial offices of Skai TV in Piraeus, after the attack
It was early Monday morning, shortly before three o’clock: more than A five-pound explosive device detonated directly in front of the glassed-in radio home of the TV channel Skai in Piraeus. In the building, the same radio station, the prestigious daily newspaper Kathimerini, as well as a popular music station. Due to the Explosion all the glass was nearly façade to break. Especially in the third and fourth floor of radio house, severe damage was done. There, employees ‘ offices and the control room of Skai TV. No one was injured – probably because an anonymous caller warned in the short term, before the Explosion, and the radio house was cleared in a timely manner.
“It was like an attack on our own house,” says Skai-messages-in-chief Jannis Adamidis in an interview with DW. And he adds: “This building is, in fact, something like our second home because we spend countless hours. For us, it was just shocking to come to work the next Morning and to stand in front of a semi-ravaged buildings”. Only at five o’clock in the morning, the police released the radio house again; after that, the program immediately went on air and reported live and in detail about the events of the past night, and the progress of the investigation. On Monday, all employees of the station and the newspaper Kathimerini presented in a joint statement they would perceive their journalistic mission in the future, without being intimidated. It was finally the first Time that your transmitter “is declared to be a target”.
Cleanup after the attack on the TV channel Skai in Piraeus
“This is something that has no Background”
A formulation, calling for attention. Why should be become the country’s leading station to the target? The fact is that Skai TV rubs me the wrong way with its reporting and polarized is the latest in the highly dramatic the summer of 2015, when the Euro membership of Greece stood on the Brink and leading Skai-of commentators advocated a ” Yes ” in the Referendum on the austerity requirements imposed by the donor.
For this positioning you to reap up to today’s harsh criticism of the left side. After the devastating fire criticized Skai journalists beats in Athens last summer, the government of Alexis Tsipras is also so strong that the government boycotted the channel, from now on. Since then, politicians of the left party Syriza for TV debates and Interviews are no longer available. However, the criticism of the work of the Skai journalists not only comes from the left of the political spectrum: In the early 1990s, the station was massive criticism of the conservative head of government of Konstantin Mitsotakis. Lately declared last activists, anarchist groups, Skai image of the enemy.
The Background of the recent attack, meanwhile, is still in the dark. “The station will be attacked for different reasons and political directions because of his reporting, apparently, always interferes,” analyzes news chef Jannis Adamidis. Apparently, it is still too early to identify the perpetrators, but even the harshest criticism could justify any terrorist attack. “Such an attack has no political Background. This was merely a criminal act,” says Adamidis. After all, the investigators were able to cart on Tuesday the burnt escape of the offenders in the Athens district of Petralona.
Condemned the attack on the freedom of the press sharply: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
Stop is a political issue
The head of government Alexis Tsipras condemned the attack clearly, and spoke of an “attack cowardly and dark forces against democracy”. So the thing is not done In a personal and unusually sharp opinion, to be referred to Skai-owner Yannis Alafouzos, the unlikely coalition partner in Athens – namely, the left party Syriza and the right-wing populist ANEL as an “intellectual instigator” of the attack. Since 2014, both parties had spread “false allegations” against his media group, Alafouzos. Then, the Left accused the Skai-owner of “slander” and was, moreover, in its decision confirmed to boycott the “propagandists” of the transmitter.
Apparently, the stop will also have a political aftermath. After all: “Our work is the answer to violence”, said on Tuesday the journalists of the daily newspaper Kathimerini in its lead – including a group photo.