Tension arose during the presentation of Petros Tatsopoulos’ book The Devil’s Child when Andreas Karagiannis showed up at the venue.
In the video published from the “Ianos” bookstore presentation, the heated exchange is evident. Petros Tatsopoulos can be heard saying into the microphone, addressing Andreas Karagiannis: “Andreas, you’ve already had your 15 minutes of fame. Not in the middle of the event! At the end of the event, all the frauds can have their say. We’ll have a ten-minute session for the frauds at the end of the event. Until then, you can either wait or leave.”
Andreas Karagiannis approached the table, with Petros Tatsopoulos telling him, “Get out, clown, get out!” Karagiannis then placed an object—reported by ekklhsiaonline.gr to be an icon of the Virgin Mary and Saint David—on the table, which Tatsopoulos immediately threw towards him. “Take care,” Karagiannis said as he walked away, while Tatsopoulos continued urging him to leave, saying, “You’ve put on your show, clown.”
At the “Ianos” bookstore, the book The Devil’s Child was being presented. According to Andreas Karagiannis, the author refers to him personally and discusses miracle scams. The publishing house describes the book as follows:
“In a country where popular saints, dead for three centuries, demand to have their vestments changed every twenty-five years, and illiterate monks converse with lizards or toss Darwin into the trash, even the most paranoid monstrosities are integrated into a peculiar ‘normality,’ while any attempt at articulating basic ‘rational discourse’ is viewed as ‘outrageous,’ if not as dictated by the Devil himself.
Above and beyond this medieval regression, at the core of the European Union, with the consent of political authorities and justice conspicuously absent, a colossal ‘revenue machine’ is set up around unchecked ‘holy relics’ and blatant ‘miracle scams,’ yielding enormous profits. Eighteen years after his bittersweet The Kindness of Strangers, Petros Tatsopoulos returns with a high-intensity autobiographical narrative and an unwavering intent to call things by their true names.”
