Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos made the following statement regarding the vandalism at the chapel of the church of the Holy Spirit, in Jerusalem:
“Greece strongly condemns the acts of vandalism carried out at the chapel of the Holy Spirit on Sion hill in Jerusalem, on 12 February, by a group of extremists. Any act of vandalism of sites of pilgrimage or holy sites anywhere in the world is abhorrent.
The Greek government is convinced that the Israeli authorities will do whatever is possible to find and arrest the perpetrators.
Greece has a strong interest in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Patriarchate’s foundations.”
February 19, 2014