Strong reactions are being provoked by Zoe Konstantopoulou’s position in the deliberation on the tragedy with the two girlsin Hilioupoli.
From the floor of the plenary session, Konstantopoulou chose to use particularly charged expressions, saying, among other things, that “the girls dived into the void” and asking “what is the Parliament doing? Leave. Did something break down?”
She blamed the State, claiming that “something wrong is going on in this country” and that the two girls were driven into the void because of the failure of the state to protect them.
However, the tone and dramatic nature of her intervention caused discomfort even among people who consider it obvious the need for public reflection around such tragedies.
Because it is one thing to take a political stance and quite another to turn any human tragedy into a scene of high political intensity and emotional excess. There are moments that require measure, silence and respect, not parliamentary crowns.
Society is watching shocked by what happened in Heliopolis. But that doesn’t mean that every tragic event should automatically be put into the “meat grinder” of political debate, with phrases that shock more than they illuminate the substance.
For many, the public debate around such cases needs more attention, especially when it involves adult children and families experiencing unimaginable pain. And vulgarity even when clothed in the cloak of sensitivity has limits.
