Fear and loathing in Kolonaki and Kastoria

The bomb outside the Church of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite (Aghios Dionysios Areopagitis) in Kolonaki and the black paint thrown at the Holocaust Memorial for Kastoria's 1,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis prove (if further proof were needed) the depth of our decadence. The perpetrators of the two acts were not known last night; it is certain, though, that they come from opposite ends of the political spectrum. What they have in common is bigotry, the wish to destroy the "enemy" (at the symbolic level, at least), and impunity. As long as these criminals do not pay for their crimes, as long as society remains indifferent, the attacks will increase in frequency and intensity, till the point when hatred and fear dominate.

The Education Ministry's annual report on incidents against targets of religious importance in Greece, which was released last week, showed that in 2017 there...