An underage hate crime
Sometimes real life shows that the worst is not here yet and when it comes from your native country it makes it really bad. It was back in issue 4 of Ovi magazine where I wrote a lengthy article about underage crimes and since then I found myself often thinking about it.
Oddly the last few days while writing some articles for our next Ovi magazine came some news from Greece that combined the theme of the magazine, boundaries (for issue 15) and underage crime. But I’ve better tell you what’s going on.
In northern Greece a group of 12 and 14 year old kids killed a 12 year old boy because he was a foreigner, or better an economic immigrant. I’m serious, this was the reason, they were bulling him for a whole year and in the end they killed him.
That combines everything, hate crime, boundaries and underage crime but most of all combines all my disgust for the world where we are brining our kids into.
Suddenly Mr. Jone Nikula and his copycat Ovi magazine looks so small however much it upset me the unfairness of the event.
The last years I often heard the problems second generation kids facing in the country which suppose to hosted their parents and even though not a refugee or a financial immigrant myself that scared me. I have often used the example of a friend’s daughter who every time she applies for a job, she needs to insure them that she speaks Finnish, that Finnish is her mother tongue and even though she carries her fathers surname she’s been in his country only for holidays.
And this happening in Greece? A country that has more Greeks living abroad than Greece? Melbourne is on the top ten cities with Greek population after Athens and Salonica. Greeks know well what immigration means. Is it possible that thing like that happen in Greece? And what about the next generation? The hope for the future!
These kids did a worst crime than killing their immigrant classmate, they killed hope for a better future and I find so difficult to express how I feel been an immigrant even by choice with a little kid myself!