Greek politicians and VIPs will be left without their private bodyguards redeployed from the Greek police, as announced on Tuesday, in a move aiming at soothing public anger over the ongoing crisis and rising criminality rates in the country.
The harsh austerity measures imposed on the ordinary Greeks by the EU/ECB/IMF have had the people protesting over the specials advantages and privileges savored by the Greek elite.
Ministers of the new government have already taken a 30 percent pay cut and now 1,500 officers will be redeployed to the streets of Athens instead of guarding politicians, businessmen and other high ranking officials.
According to the police announcement, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s personal guard would be scaled down by 25 officers and that of leftist opposition leader Alexis Tsipras by 20 officers.
The move is expected to boost the finances of the Greek police and give the people a sense of security that is currently lacking in the Greek capital.
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