Greek deputy minister's home defaced with 'Death to ND' and gas canister threats in Chania
Slogans including 'Death to ND' and 'Gas canisters at your homes' were written on the home and political office of Deputy Migration Minister Sevi Voloudaki in Chania early Sunday, drawing a sharp government rebuke and a police investigation with arrests expected within hours.
Incident details
Graffiti bearing death threats and references to a recent fatal attack in Thessaloniki was scrawled on the entrance of Sevi Voloudaki's family home and her political office in Chania during the early hours of 12 July 2026. The slogans, written in Greek, included 'Death to ND,' 'Gas canisters at your homes,' and 'Death,' according to the deputy minister. She said the messages were discovered early in the morning and police were notified immediately.
Cowards, brazen cowards. They came right to the door of my home and office. They wrote threatening slogans: 'gas canisters at your homes,' 'death.'
Voloudaki revealed this is the third time she has been targeted. The first attack involved actual gas canisters, while the latest incident involved painted threats. She was at home with her family when the slogans were applied.
Voloudaki's response
The deputy minister described the perpetrators as cowards and insisted the intimidation would not disrupt her work. She emphasized that such tactics cannot bend either her resolve or the functioning of democratic institutions.
I want to send the message that this will not pass. Whatever they do, whatever efforts they make, we will not be afraid. I will not stop fighting, trying, and doing what I have done until today.
Voloudaki said she expects arrests within hours or days, expressing confidence that the perpetrators would be brought to justice under the rules of a lawful democratic state. She also called on the entire political world to condemn the attack on her office.
- Threats 'Death to ND' and 'Gas canisters at your homes' painted on Voloudaki's home and office in Chania.
- Slogans discovered early in the morning; police notified immediately.
- Deputy Minister calls perpetrators 'brazen cowards,' says she will not be intimidated, and expects arrests within hours.
- Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis condemns the act as a brutal attack on democracy, insists there are no justifications, only condemnation.
Government denunciation
Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis issued a strong statement, calling the slogans an organized effort to intimidate and a brutal attack on democracy.
When someone goes so far as to write 'Death to ND' and 'Gas canisters at your homes' outside the home of Deputy Minister Sevi Voloudaki and her family, we are not facing a protest. We are facing a brutal attack on democracy. We are facing criminals.
Marinakis stressed there are no asterisks, footnotes, or justifications for such acts, only condemnation. He said targeting people and families, threatening violence, and cultivating hatred have no place in a state governed by the rule of law. He added that anyone who tolerates such practices or remains silent assumes enormous political and moral responsibility.
Connection to Thessaloniki attack
Among the graffiti was a message referencing the murderers of Vagia Nestora, linking the threat directly to the recent fatal gas canister attack at the home of Afroditi Nestora in Thessaloniki. That attack killed Nestora's mother. Marinakis condemned any attempt to instrumentalize a murderous assault to spread new hatred and threaten people's lives.
When 'Death' becomes a slogan, silence is not neutrality. It is complicity.
