According to newsbeast.gr, the trial of 13 journalists charged with the defamation of Greece by Focus Magazine has once again been postponed to November 20.
The journalists are charged with defamation, abuse of symbols of the Greek state, and other offences, as they characterized the Greeks as “crooks” and presented the statue “Aphrodite of Milos” making an offensive hand gesture in the Focus Magazine issue of February 22, 2010. Lawyers for the journalists claim that the opinion of the press might be annoying, but everyone must put up with critics under the scope of freedom of the press. In addition, they claim that more serious comments have been written about Greece in other newspapers and magazines.
The editor of Focus Magazine is charged with abuse of the Greek flag, as he published in the front page of the magazine a photo of the Ancient Greek statue “Aphrodite of Milos” bearing a filthy and ripped Greek flag.
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