A warm summer evening and when we enjoyed our coffee at my friends' balcony I noticed that something new was added at the top of the apartment store at the opposite side of the small street. The distance between the 2 buildings are less than 10 m.
The new add at the top of the building looked like a chimney of a fireplace but it was a little bit different. I asked my friends about it but they believed that it was a chimney.
A few weeks passed and one morning Christina called me to tell me that what we thought that it was a chimney was only the cover of the antenna that one of the 3 big telecommunication companies which provides cellular telephony in Greece, has placed on the top of the apartment store.
The neighborhood was upside down. They have started running to ask what this means for their life. They asked the scientists, they read articles. Nothing secured them that this antenna will be harmless for their health and for the health of their children.
So… they started to fight for the remove of this antenna. They went to the court they took a decision from the court that the placement of the antenna was illegal. They went to the national company which controls the buildings… they took from them the decision that this antenna must be demolished. They went to the mayor of the city… again the municipality responsible authorities assured them that they are right, the antenna has set up at the top of the building without permission and it must be taken away from there.
So what? They have the right with them but the antenna after 3 months is still there and works. Vasilis was the leader of the people who tried to remove the antenna. He left his work for a few days to be presented where it needed.
He felt that he must fight for his son and for his family peace. Well that was what I would do in any occasion like this. I believe that it is important to be warriors in our life.
The antenna was still there and they wonder what to do. They make a try to inform the press. The reply was that the press would not interfere in this. The company gives a lot of money to the newspapers, magazines and TV channels for advertisement purposes.
After that the threat has come.
Someone informed Vasilis that he should stop fighting the big company otherwise he must be careful with his place at his company (a construction company) or even with his life.
This company represents the big money. Those people have
power… |