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* Novartis scandal: An utterly failed mafia-style cover-up * “They shot him in the head” “Yes, but what was he doing blocking the library construction?” * They are capable of getting us into war even with Barbados

- are the main headlines to be found inside this highly informative weekly must-read from and about Greece.

An official FBI document included in the Novartis scandal file in Greece was reported as falsified in its Greek translation, to omit the names of two officials who were stated as bribed by the company. The student shot directly in the face with a stun grenade by a policeman has been, after all, very seriously injured. The Education Minister, instead of condemning the incident, justified lethal police violence against an unarmed civilian. Greek foreign policy seems in tatters. Iran seized two Greek-flagged tankers, following Greece’s seizure of an Iranian one at a US request. Tension escalated as Iran threatened to seize more Greek tankers. At the same time, Greek citizens are informed of crucial foreign policy decisions by foreign officials.

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Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis is known to have a big mouth. On Wednesday, he went so far to threaten the head prosecutor investigating possible involvement of politicians to the Novartis bribes scandal with imprisonment.

Corruption prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki, “should go to jail because she violated the Constitution” for pressing charges against PASOK’s former health minister Andreas Loverdos as part of the probe, Gerogidais said during a live interview with ANT1 TV.

“Shame on her!” he screamed in his traditional way.

He also posted his approach to the way the prosecutor works on his social media account.

In a statement, prosecutor Touloupaki accused Georgiadis of publicly taking position about cases still under investigation and that he has no idea about national and international laws.

She said that she would move at national and European level to defend her personality.

But a government is a team and acts like one no matter what.

Spokesman Stelios Petsas defended Gerogiadis and his ministerial threats.

Georgiadis “was not commenting as a government minister, but as a regular citizen. He expressed personal indignation at the fact that his case remains unresolved for years,” Petsas said during the daily briefing on Thursday.

As expected he did not fele the need to elaborate whether ANt1 invited Georgiadis as Minister or as an indignant Greek citizen.

Strong reaction came from main opposition SYRIZA that said in a statement that if Georgiadis wants to comment as a “regular citizen”, he should leave his official post. SYRIZA spoke of the minister’s “brutal and vulgar intervention in Justice.”

Of course, the Prime Minister would not do SYRIZA a favor and dismiss the Development Minister. If he was to dismiss a minister hos what he says, Mitsotakis would have been replacing one minister once a month.

Greek Education Minister Andreas Loverdos confirmed on Thursday that he will soon be returning to PASOK party.

“It is a given that I will return to PASOK’s parliamentary group,” said the Minister, who quit the socialists in 2012 to form his own party, Pact for a New Greece.

Loverdos said that he has agreed on his return to PASOK with party leader and Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos.

In the meantime, it was announced that former Prime Minister and PASOK President Giorgos Papandreou will also be making a “political comeback” this autumn. He has planned to deliver a speech at Zapeion Hall, on September 3.

The day picked is symbolic, since it marks the anniversary of the 40 years of the PASOK party.