The way in which the education ministry hierarchy protected one of their officials accused by two female subordinates of sexual harassment is scandalous. The ministry claims the case file was never handed over because the contents of the investigation were confidential. If anything, they all protected the official, who faces criminal charges in connection with another case of sexual harassment filed by a woman not employed at the education ministry. Astonishingly, education ministry officials have accused deputies, who have taken up the matter, of engaging in populism. If there was no publicity and the matter had not been submitted for discussion at the human rights committee by Attalides it would have been forgotten just as the anti-populism mandarins of the education ministry had planned.