Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos, addressing the Parliament Plenum on Thursday, said that publicity produced by the hooded man should not be exploited in Parliament for the sake of opposition games.

   The House was debating on a bill regarding the restructuring of municipal police.

   "Let us respect grief, let us condemn the troublemakers, let us be united at last, we have other opportunities for opposition," he said.

   Main popposition PASOK party Parliamentary representative Evangelos Venizelos said that "in essence, the government, represented by the prime minister himself, is implementing a logic that is very close to the logic of Hatziavatis (In the traditional Greek "Karaghiozis" shadow theater, Hatziavatis is an acquiescent, moral, honest and industrious man, who, however, is subservient to his boss (the prime minister) 'they will beat us, they will sweat, they will catch cold, they will get pneumonia and they will die' and we shall remain beaten up, humiliated but the holders of power."

   Pavlopoulos said in turn that Venizelos "is telling us that parents, pupils, (the Teachers unions) DOE, OLME, did not go to grieve over the death of Alexis, but that they found the opportunity to demonstrate objection to the economic policy of the government. Is this PASOK's assessment?" adding that "I thought that they came out to grieve over the death of a child who was lost due to the lack of wisdom of a policeman who expressly violated the rules of the police corps."

   Achilleas Kantartzis said on the part of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) that the mainstream parties desire a coverup of the real events since the one side spoke of a circumstantial event and the other as if authoritarianism appeared yesterday, as if it was not the heightening of an entire course over the past 15 years (electronic filing, terror law, Euroterror law, Schengen Treaty, new suppression bodies and the right of even private policemen to use a gun).

   Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Parliamentary representative Fotis Kouvelis referred to KKE's leadership, stressing that "KKE said that we are caressing the ears of the hooded men, but I think that some others are caressing their complacency and certainties that do not exist and they do not exist because all this which is being recorded as mobility, as reaction by young people is for us the adding up of anger, suffocation that is the result of the neo-liberal conservative policy. And those who are not making this ascertainment have great responsibilities."

   As regards the bill, Pavlopoulos withdrew article 30 that concerned "arrangements concerning the service state of former deputies."

   Caption: Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos speaks in parliament on Thursday 11 December 2008. ANA-MPA/PANTELIS SAITAS