The National Gallery of Greece is reportedly proceeding with a €500,000
The National Gallery of Greece is reportedly proceeding with a €500,000 lawsuit against Nikos Papadopoulos, the former MP of the right-wing populist party “Niki,” in connection with the vandalism of artworks during a recent exhibition.
According on the television channel MEGA the Gallery is filing an additional lawsuit against Papadopoulos, following the incident on March 10 when he entered the exhibition “The Allure of the Stranger” with an associate and damaged works by artist Christoforos Katsadiotis.
The National Gallery has not commented publicly on the specific legal details but is reported to be seeking damages for the incident, which involved the destruction of protective glass and the removal of artworks deemed offensive by Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos, speaking on MEGA responded to the legal action by saying: “The 500,000 [euros] that these gentlemen want from me who are putting up the profane works that directly insult the Virgin Mary are within the framework of my financial extermination, since the character assassination preceded it. Then comes the political extermination.” He continued, “They cut half my salary for the profane projects I downloaded. And I did well to take them down, may God grant me the right to take them down again.”
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