Health minister says a clip asking “why Mazonakis and not Adonis Georgiadis” shows “something excessively toxic” in Greek society, as the probe into the singer’s death continues.
Athens, 11 September 2026 — Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has condemned a viral TikTok that wished he had died in place of singer Giorgos Mazonakis, saying the clip and the scale of its engagement reveal a deep streak of hatred in public life.
In a post on X on Friday evening, Georgiadis shared a screenshot of the video. The overlay, written in Greeklish, reads: “Thee mou giati ton Mazwnakh kai oxi ton Adwni Georgiadh” — “My God, why Mazonakis and not Adonis Georgiadis.”
The minister said a user had uploaded “this vulgar and repulsive post” and that it had already drawn about 50,000 likes, 234 comments, 839 saves and 11,227 shares.
“There is something excessively toxic in our society. Someone posts this vulgar and repulsive content online. Yes — he wishes I had died in Giorgos Mazonakis’s place. Someone is publicly wishing for a fellow human being to die. And this post receives… 50,000 likes, 234 comments, 839 saves, 11,227 shares.
Sometimes all of this really makes you wonder whether it is worth dealing with any of it. It is truly a pity how far we have come in gathering so much hatred for one another.”
The original clip circulated under the TikTok handle @xarhsxarhka and was reshared by another account, nostha.777.
Mazonakis, one of Greece’s best-known pop singers, died on Wednesday, 9 September 2026, aged 54. He suffered cardiac arrest at a private practice on Karneadou Street in Kolonaki, where he had gone for a scheduled plasmapheresis session. He was taken without a pulse to Elpis Hospital and pronounced dead at 17:40.
Georgiadis, speaking earlier as minister rather than as a target of the clip, said the premises were licensed only as a general internal-medicine office and were not authorised to perform plasmapheresis. He asked the Athens Medical Association to inspect the site and warned patients not to risk their health on treatments promoted online.
Two doctors who ran the practice have been arrested and face felony charges of exposure resulting in death. An autopsy has not yet established a definitive cause of death. Toxicological and other laboratory tests are pending. Mazonakis’s family has said it will join the criminal case and will seek to have the charges upgraded.
Georgiadis has also said the government will set up a committee of doctors and lawyers to draw rules for anti-ageing and longevity clinics, describing the current framework as a grey area that has been overtaken by the market.
Friday’s post did not add new facts about the clinic case. It was a political and moral reaction to a death-wish video that used the singer’s death as a punchline against the minister.
