Shock about the military exercises in Kilkis

A peculiar incident occurred a few days ago in the area of Kilkis, which is now making the Defense Ministry look for excuses.

During a military exercise, military forces appeared to “control” citizens holding flags and banners with“Siriza” and “Peace” written on them.

The Ministry declared absolute ignorance of the incident after an offical enquiry conducted in Parliament by KKE MPs Thanasis Pafilas and Siriza’s Theodoros Dritsas. The Ministry has asked for the exercise to stop immediately, and to be informed in detail about it by the military officials of the area.

President of LAOS Mr.Karatzaferis intervened and said that the fact that the Ministry of Defense was not informed and the fact that this is probably an illegal exercise are two totally different matters. Mr. Beglitis (deputy Minister) said that the Ministry does not support such acts and he understands “the worries in reference to the procedure and the content of this exercise, but I wouldn’t be too worried". "Should there be responsibilities, there will be fines” said Mr.Beglitis.