Konstantinos Barbarousis

Konstantinos Barbarousis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Μπαρμπαρούσης)[1] is a far-right Greek politician and was a member of the Greek Parliament for Golden Dawn from May 2012 until June 2019.

In 2018, from the floor of parliament, he called for the military to "respect their oath" and arrest Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Minister of National Defence Panos Kammenos, and President Prokopis Pavlopoulos "in order to prevent this high treason" about the Prespa agreement that was due to be reached, that was seen as giving out the name "Macedonia" to the former Yugoslavian province now called North Macedonia, while that's the name of a Greek region and the historical Greek Kingdom of Macedonia by Alexander the Great.[2] The government of the time reacted to it as a call for a military coup, and a treason investigation was opened against him.[3]

After his speech, Konstantinos Barbousis was expelled from the party and from parliament.

At the time of his speech, massive peaceful protests had already happened in and out of the country against the Prespa agreement (also by Greek communities residing outside of Greece) and in instances in Greece there was conflict between protesters and anti-riot units, as they got closer to the parliament. In a video, there were children and generally families, and it appears and it's alleged that protesters were not violent, but still received tear gassing and beatings by anti-riot orders. Also, in the same cases, it has been said that the anti-riot units were foreign, perhaps to not have personal connection to the protests they were ordered to fight. [4][5][6][7]