Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has been indicted to stand trial for allegedly promoting drug use during a podcast, his MeRA25 party said on Wednesday, February 25.
The party said Varoufakis, due to appear in court on December 16, is being targeted by the centre-right government, accusing it of “manipulating” the judiciary “because he speaks the truth.”
It described the indictment as “risible … and dangerous.”
The investigation followed remarks Varoufakis made when asked whether he had ever used drugs.
“Determined not to do a Bill Clinton (remember the laughable ‘I didn’t inhale’?), I said I had,” he wrote on X, confirming past marijuana use and a single experience with ecstasy in Sydney 36 years ago, which he said led to a week-long migraine and deterred further use.
He said he shared the story to stress the risks, telling listeners “there is a price to pay,” with addiction representing “the end of liberty.”
MeRA25, no longer represented in Parliament, said putting a party leader on trial for discussing decades-old experiences “is not an accidental, innocent gaffe” but “a message from a judiciary that closes its eyes to those in power and goes after whoever refuses to bend the knee.”
Source: Ekathimerini.
