Message that they should know that they will go to jail was sent by the Minister of Civil Protection, Michael Chrysochoidis, to those who, he said, “are trying to succeed 17 November”, on the occasion of the release of Yiotopoulos.

“There are still a few few who attempted to continue the work and most of them were or are still in prison and a few who are trying to succeed them will go to prison, be aware of that,” he said, speaking on SKY television.

As he pointed out, “the issue of Yiotopoulos’ release has to do with rules of procedure and judges’ decisions and I don’t comment on those, obviously I disagree, but if we get into this game we will be constantly dealing with court decisions. The problem is that this particular man has never spoken about the issue and there was the leak that “still the rule of law has not answered me because I have been in prison for 24 years” and the other one (Kufontinas) said “I have no regrets” for killing 15 people.”

“This means they are unrepentant and what they deserve is democratic contempt. The court will find the solution from the rules it applies,” the Minister of Civil Protection added.

Following the murder of the 39-year-old woman in Kalamata, Mr. Chrysochoidis noted that “this year we have 5 femicides, last year we had 8, this year we had 12% less complaints which means that some people have come to their senses. We have 3850 arrests in the first 4 months of 2026 for domestic violence out of 6,500 complaints and some hundreds are already in custody.”

He also described juvenile delinquency as “a social issue”, stressing that on the one hand “there is a need for strict punishment of parents” and on the other hand “we need to make the penal treatment such – I am not referring to prisons – I am referring to issues of serving a sentence that will be lenient so that they do not become repeat offenders. I mean community service and other such sentences that a child understands the magnitude of a problem when they are using violence.”