GREECE: After 'Pastitsio' came 'Besamelios "

 

 

Philippos Loizos, 27, was arrested in September 2012 on charges of “malicious blasphemy and insulting  religion” through Facebook. The arrest came “after thousands of e-complains from residents of different countries of the world”, so the police press release. The 27-year-old had created a page on Facebook named “Geron Pastitsios” (Elder Pastitsios), an mock name for Greek Athos monk, Elder Paisios (1924-1994), famous about his prophecies on Greece, the Greek nation and the Orthodox Christianity. 

 

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