bring back the "batso" i say!

In regards to the above incident blame should not be placed on the Police, for obvious reasons. However the above incident reflects something larger something more important fundamentally about what is happening in our society.
Remember when Eric Cantona lashed out and dropped kicked an opposing fan back in his glory days? Well Eric Cantona was faced on a daily basis with media pressure allegations and insinuations that slowly was building up inside him and he could not suppress those feeling anymore, the result an outlash towards a football fan whose actions did not deserve such a violent response. We can all understand at the same time what Eric Cantona was going through and can excuse his actions as well to some extent...

The Moral of the story here is that unfortunately the Cyprus police is continuously disgracing and not serving us. Be it assisting known Murderers to escape from Jail. Be it known police men acting as loan sharks. Known police men involved in Murders. Police turning blind eyes to illegal gambling and prostitution rackets, and most probably involved in protecting those business operations from the law itself in exchange for favors and money. I think also fresh in the minds of all is the brutal beating of a youngster in the streets caught on video camera? No one has been put in bars yet and those police men are still working for the Authority, with the main witness who took the video afraid for his life to come forward??? Then there is more a lack of professionalism and support for the common public. Have you ever tried to report a crime? What kind of response or assistance did you get? Have you ever tried to make an official complaint about the treatment received by police officers? If you are a women have you even had police men use their position and rank to try and flirt with you? Do you know what it takes to enter the police force in Cyprus? You need to know someone. Another thing worth mentioning here is that the police is trying to create an ‘’Internal affairs department with a couple of officers. I thought that it was common practice to have such department. Apparently not in Cyprus and the whole force was up in protest against such a department?????? How can you even contemplate have a police force without internal affairs?
What makes a person / society angry? Why do we get angry over unrelated things and blow up out of proportion with what is happening? Why do we get angry at the people we love and care about? Anger can appear to be irrational but if you learn to look below the surface you will find the real causes of anger. When you find the real causes you can successfully overcome your anger.
The issue in the above article is not the motorbike crash it’s bigger than that and the sooner we recognize and make a stand for a change the less of such out brakes we will have.

My sympathy for the family is a given, a young man dead and who is to blame...perhaps everyone...complacency at every level...the problem is fairly obvious to any casual observer and its not confined to cyprus...it seems no one is willing to do anything....fera of getting it wrong..putting ones head above the parapet...easier and safer to join with the majority... Perhaps now action will be taken by those in a posistion to do something...sadly it usually takes a crisis to generate action...lets hope its not a superficial reaction..a reactive short term presence, a few blue lights and loud noises, .consider parents ..schools...work with the youth they have a voice far better to listen and communicate as opposed to the usual over reaction..et al....if the youth are the problem then they are also an element of the solution...consider bike cops actually talking to the youth...maybe they do already...open days..motorcycle events..old hat yes but it may actually improve something..at least you have a captive audience...i hope lessons have been learnt..again my sympathies to the parents ..i hope his death is not in vain...

Every one of us has seen the lunatic behaviour of youths and young men on motor bikes or scooters on the streets and roads of Cyprus. And, we have all seen the response of the police to this behaviour; they ignore it! I do not believe the dead schoolboy was being chased by the police. That would be something totally out of character for what we know of the Cyprus "police".
The reason for this death is not that the police caused it; but by their previous habitual failure to act against such lunatics in the past when they have been seen behaving as they do, they encouraged it to happen.
No one comes out of this with incident with any credit.
The journalist should be sacked. But this is Cyprus, where journalists routinely treat rumour as fact; resulting sometimes in tragic consequences; even on a national scale, so nothing will happen there.
As for the rioting hooligans; perhaps the less said the better. Cypriot youth has after all traditionaly been encouraged by it's elders to 'demonstrate' against those who are currently perceived to be the enemy, or against whom they hold a grievance.
As for the parents who buy the bikes,and who allow their children to ride them, underage, unlicenced and without helmets; one can only presume they enjoy funerals!