If someone or some persons are the natural perpetrators of the brutal murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kampanos, all of us - without a doubt - as citizens, members of our society, have a share of responsibility in this dramatic event.

Because while we have known for many years that groups made up of "professional hooligans" of all sports clubs, clash with each other armed with the most deadly objects (knives, screwdrivers, bats, helmets, etc.) and even having homicidal intent (i.e. to literally kill their opponents) we do nothing to prevent it, thus eternally ignoring a phenomenon that offends us as a state and as a society. Usually because it doesn't involve our own child. And so we turn our gaze elsewhere. And I read all these days, expert and non-expert opinions, turning relentlessly against the Justice which has been slow to punish the alleged perpetrator of the murder for his previous similar action, the Police which was late in arriving at the incident, the lawyers who ask for postponements in trials of delinquent persons, etc. It is easiest for the Greek to always blame someone other than himself for everything that is wrong.

But who are these "professional hooligans"? Aren't they our children? If one searches for information on the persons arrested from time to time after the various violent incidents, one will read ages starting from 13 and -usually- reaching 30 years. So did these kids just skyrocket? Didn't they have parents to steer them away from violence? Didn't they have family to protect them from the streets? Didn't they go to school to give them even the minimum education so that they know that when you kill a human being you are simultaneously destroying your own life and the lives of those who love and care about you? How did the sports clubs (amateur and professional of all sports), which - supposedly - cultivate the ideals of sports and which maintain children's and adolescent sections for boys and girls, allow their fans to turn into organized hooligans? The Greek State is undeniably responsible for the fact that Justice is slow in assigning responsibility for the fact that our police are not as organized as they should be, that the sentences imposed by our Courts are usually suspended for so many other reasons.

But the first and foremost responsibility lies with us. Because the first and main barrier to hooliganism is, I think, the parent who will teach his child that violence is not a moral standard. And it is neither the policeman who will arrest him when he commits an illegal act nor the Judge who will be called to try him. Then who is late? The second mound is the school that will orient the young man in some direction with a positive sign. And finally the sports teams and their agents who should understand that sports is - above all - a cultural good with a pedagogical character because it creates standards.

You will tell me this is all theoretical. Yet. To see how important they are I challenge you to watch a local amateur football game. Where families with small children are supposed to go, they have only local interest and it is the teenager's first introduction to sports. There one will see widespread manifestations of verbal (and often physical) violence in the stands and around the playing field. Coming from people next door. You ie me too.

So how can this violence as a phenomenon not be imitated by the 13-year-old son or daughter who accompanies us and when he can not express it in any way he can?