Posted on 03/11/2015 9:18:34 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Greece's justice minister said on Wednesday he was ready to implement a High Court ruling allowing Athens to seize German state-owned property to compensate victims of a Nazi massacre in a small Greek village.
Nikos Paraskevopoulos' comments come against a backdrop of rising tensions between Athens and Berlin as Greece's new leftist government struggles to persuade its European Union partners to renegotiate a 240 billion euro bailout package.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday accused successive German governments of using legal tricks to avoid paying reparations for the brutal Nazi occupation of Greece and said he would support efforts to push for compensation.
Speaking on Mega TV, Paraskevopoulos said a high-court ruling from 2000, which allowed the confiscation of German property to compensate relatives of some 218 Greeks killed in the village of Distomo, was still valid.
The ruling needs to be endorsed by the justice minister to be enacted, and Paraskevopoulos' predecessors have baulked at the idea, knowing it would lead to a showdown with Berlin.
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This is one of those get-out-the-popcorn moments, like watching ISIS fighting pro-Iranian Shiites.
A bunch of Euroweenies, with their panties in the bunch. The Euro going downhill can only help the dollar stay as a reserve currency.
Just have Germany paratroop int Crete again. This time they would be liberators
Descending into Third World Banana, perhaps we could say in the case Olive, Republic status.
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