Graffiti in Greece
Greece Should Criminalize Graffiti Before it’s too Late
Written By: Christophoros
As a regular visitor and seasonal worker in Greece, I’m seeing more and more graffiti every time I go back. And at the risk of sounding too altruistic, it pains me greatly that some of our most treasured towns and locations are covered in the ugliest form of “art” ever conceived.
Most of it is produced by delinquents and undesirables, and I know I’m not the first journalist to suggest cracking down on its pervasiveness. Athens and Thessaloniki are always beginning and ending publicly-funded cleanups of graffiti in places of interest.
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