The mayor of Mykonos filed a complaint against former citizens’ protection minister Nikos Toskas and the chief of Hellenic Police at the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) on Wednesday, over lack of adequate police staff on the cosmopolitan island.
Mayor Constantine Koukas claimed that the recently relieved minister and the police, ignored his repeated pleas for additional staffing on the island and called for an investigation into “cases of violence and lawlessness,” including an attack of the city council president in public.
Koukas said that he had repeatedly met with, asked for and reported on the lack of adequate policing the popular island faces during its high summer season, when tourists from Greece and abroad flock to Mykonos and raise the population total to as high as 200,000.
Earlier this month, Koukas and Nikos Zorzos, the mayor of Santorini, which also has a problem with increased crime, appealed to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to boost the police presence on the islands.
Koukas reiterated that appeal yesterday to Interior Minister Panos Skourletis, who has temporarily assumed Toskas’s duties.
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