Onasagoras
The events of the past few weeks, and the clumsy way they’ve been handled, make Cyprus feel like an unguided ship, tossed around by the posts of TikTokers and influencers on our “island of saints,” while the police and Legal Service scramble to keep up. Meanwhile, our beloved Cyprus, microphone in hand like a second-rate pop star, seems to be singing: “God, please let everything go smoothly… I’ve always been this way, and what a shame, an unguided ship in the north…”
Annie Alexoui has served up more material than anyone can digest, and if even a fraction of what she says is true, both our police force and countless state officials are in serious trouble. We’ve long suspected negligence, cover-ups, and corruption at various levels, but few could have imagined it was this bad. Even Mr. Fityris, in his worst nightmares, probably never pictured such a chaotic start; the man must now remain on 24-hour alert.
But really, can it be true that the mayor of Paphos, who used to lose his mind over the tiniest legal misstep, was hiding skeletons in his own closet? A friend, once a die-hard supporter of Phaedonos, asked me this with bitter disbelief. What can I say? Justice will hopefully tell us soon. My sense, however...my conviction even...is that the mayor’s political ambitions end here, because Caesar’s wife must not only be virtuous, she must appear virtuous. And sadly for him, there are now stains that won’t easily be washed away, no matter what the courts decide.
After the 13 kilos of explosives that vanished from a firing range, we had bullets turning up in a hospital yesterday. In Cyprus, we are never bored. And tonight, amidst all this chaos, comes the President’s State of the Union, fancier, glossier, and more European-sounding than “Government Planning,” a near-tragic irony.
By the end of the first month of Cyprus’s EU Presidency, no one could have imagined that our sole topic of conversation would be Alexoui and her posts. The electric shocks to public opinion still sting, faintly reminding us of the absurd Videogate scandal. We thought it would dominate the headlines at least until the elections, but the relentless stream of shocking news has already pushed it into the history books, to the relief of those lingering in the presidential corridors. Tomorrow promises the “bigger” stories.
