(10 Mar 2025)
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Athens – 10 March 2025
1. Various exteriors of National Gallery in Athens, police outside
2. Visitor showing the catalogue of exhibition “The Allure of the Bizarre” outside gallery (art works that are part of this exhibition were allegedly attacked)
3. Various of Spiros Tsironis, lawmaker with the small ultra-religious Niki party, and lawyer for Nikolaos Papadopoulos (member of the Niki party who allegedly attacked works he considered blasphemous) shouting outside the National Gallery
4. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Spiros Tsironis, lawmaker and lawyer:
"It is unprecedented both in the records of democracy and the criminal justice that there has been an illegal detention of a member of parliament inside the National Gallery. There is no prosecution. He should have been released. And I come here to seek out who are those who are holding him in the National Gallery. The National Gallery is not even a police station. It is not even a place where a member of parliament can be detained."
5. Various of National Gallery
6. Various of police officers outside the National Gallery
7. Mid of Evanthia Kalaitzidi, wife of Nikolaos Papadopoulos
8. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Evanthia Kalaitzidi, wife of Nikolaos Papadopoulos:
"Afterwards, my husband sent a letter to the director, demanding that these exhibits be taken down, because they offend our Orthodox faith and our Orthodox sentiment. It is a shame for us Orthodox Christians to see the face of the Virgin Mary distorted and the face of Christ skeletonized, as if he were a skeleton. We did not receive an answer, today he came in person to see the director. He went in alone, I waited for him outside, from then on I do not know."
9. Media outside National Gallery
10. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Evanthia Kalaitzidi, wife of Nikolaos Papadopoulos:
"I know he tried to take down the exhibits, if there was any damage done trying to take down the exhibits, I don’t know."
11. Various of National Gallery
12. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Filippos Tsitsopoulos, artist:
"It’s a brutal act, it’s brutal, extreme, brutal. You can’t treat an artist’s work like that, nor an institution. We are talking about the National Gallery, one of the country’s main institutions, if not the most main one, because it has the name, it has the name National Gallery."
13. Police officers outside the National Gallery
STORYLINE:
Greek police detained a member of parliament on Monday after he allegedly attacked art works which are part of at an exhibition in the country’s National Gallery in Athens.
Nikolaos Papadopoulos, who is a member of the small ultra-religious Niki party, allegedly smashed glass cases and attacked works he considered blasphemous.
The gallery has been closed.
The works were reportedly part of an exhibition of Greek artists titled “The Allure of the Bizarre” that included caricatures of religious icons and themes.
Spiros Tsironis, a lawmaker with Niki and lawyer for Papadopoulos, was outside the gallery, calling for the immediate release of his fellow lawmaker, who he believed was still inside.
Also outside the gallery was Papadopoulos’ wife, who said he had written to the gallery’s director asking that the exhibits to be taken down.
"We did not receive an answer, today he came in person to see the director. He went in alone, I waited for him outside, from then on I do not know," she said.
The exhibition, which opened in January and is scheduled to run until September, accompanies a parallel display of 80 works by the late 18th century and early 19th century Spanish master Francisco Goya.
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