The comments in question were not murder threats and were just some generic rants made against the political ideology of Makarios Droushiotis. In a democratic society, people have the freedom and right to publish such material, and these rights are protected for every RoC citizen by the constitution.
One could possibly argue that comments went a bit overboard and that much emotive sentiment was employed, but there are no laws which can prohibit this. On the contrary, it is every one's democratic right to publish their opinion on the Internet or anywhere else. There were no murder threats against anyone, and the author (who is unknown) will deny it in any case, and therefore no illegitimate intent can be proven.
Once again, these are the comments in question:
“Only in Cyprus is it possible for someone like Makarios [Droushiotis] to live. Only in Cyprus is it possible for collaborators, whores and brownnosers of the conqueror (and the nobody in question is all of the above) to peddle their garbage.
“The traitors deserve fire and axe. Throw the collaborators into a pit and cover them with lime.”
http://christofias-watch.blogspot.com/
So the situation is as follows:
1) the author of the comments is unknown, therefore can't be arrested,
2) if the author is arrested then he will deny any illegitimate intent,
3) the owner of the blog was arrested but was not charged,
4) Christofias and Makarios Drousiotis have made fools of themselves,
5) it is every one's constitutional right to free speech within the RoC.
This episode is hilarious, and we are laughing at Makarios Drousiotis' expense. No wonder no one takes the idiot seriously.
Christofias saw this whole saga as an excuse to close down a blog which opposes all his political ideologies and his handing of the Cyprus Problem. It back fired in his face!
The website in question has now had much publicity, and I bet the site's traffic would be through the roof at the moment.
Way to go Christofias and Drousiotis....
I loved Nicos Pappadopoulos comments on the matter last night!
