{"id":36817,"date":"2018-01-19T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/protesters-yank-down-angel-sculpture-in-athens\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T10:47:38","slug":"protesters-yank-down-angel-sculpture-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/protesters-yank-down-angel-sculpture-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters yank down angel sculpture in Athens, saying it looks like Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was displayed in early December in a busy area in the coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro. Protesters have included some residents, religious conservatives and supporters of far right political groups.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Wednesday night a group of 10-15 hooded persons tied it to the back of a truck and drove away, pulling it down, mayor of Palaio Faliro Dionysis Hatzidakis told Real FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wings are now broken,\u201d said Hatzidakis who has filed a lawsuit. \u201cIt has been severely damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if we don\u2019t like something we destroy it &#8230; for political purposes?,\u201d Hatzidakis said, adding that he suspected the attackers were far-right.<\/p>\n<p>He said they threatened to hurt an eye-witness if he alerted authorities. If the sculpture can be repaired it will be reinstalled, a spokesman for the mayor told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture was created by well-known Greek artist Kostis Georgiou who has exhibited both at home and in other countries. He told Enikos.gr that Phylax was transferred to a safe place and that he hopes \u201cthe evil shall not prevail\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this violence against the sculpture since the first moment it was installed has left me speechless,\u201d he told Reuters. \u201cIt should remain down on the ground as a memorial of the irrational rationale.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23775 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/keiutgf.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Source: Reuters}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests against the 8-metre high sculpture called Phylax, which in Greek means \u201cguardian\u201d, have ranged from throwing white paint and spitting at it to attempting to exorcise it with a Greek priest sprinkling holy water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2482],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-reuters"],"bylines":[{"id":2482,"name":"REUTERS","slug":"reuters","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2482,"name":"REUTERS","slug":"reuters","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36817"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36817"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}