Because there was this informal agreement between the Greek government of Andreas Papandreou at the time and these terrorist groups that if you don't kill Greeks, we'll leave you alone.
Because there was this informal agreement between the Greek government of Andreas Papandreou at the time and these terrorist groups that if you don't kill Greeks, we'll leave you alone.
Quote, Police arrested 35 Greek citizens and an Albanian man on charges of arbitrary occupation of public property and erecting an illegal construction. The site on the cliffs of Apiea in Bietien, Lesbos' capital city, is on the grounds of the island's famed fortress and protected by archaeological law. They weren't in trouble because it was a cross, and not even in trouble because they were making a gaudy, xenophobic monument. They got arrested because of where they built it. The exact same article talks about how a similar cross was erected in 2018, but it wasn't on protected land, so no one got arrested.