Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is under investigation by the Greek drug enforcement police for aiding and abetting the narco-mafia. In an X posting
On Jan. 16, Varoufakis warned: “Here, in Europe, many people still live under the illusion that we have liberty, rationality and freedom. We don’t. Dark forces are at work, pushing us into a postmodern version of the Dark Ages.”
The investigation is based on statements by Varoufakis in a radio interview, in which he recounted that once, 36 years ago, he took the drug Ecstasy, but that he would never do it again because it made him sick for the next week. In short, he said, “however pleasant drug taking may seem, there is a price to pay. And that the ultimate price is dependence, addiction—'the end of liberty’.... [T[he Greek police have opened an investigation of me under the charge of... aiding and abetting the narco-mafia….
“So, beware, people! They are out to take away the last remnants of autonomy and freedom we have left. Resistance is, literally, existence,” he concluded.
