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Health minister says a clip asking \u201cwhy Mazonakis and not Adonis Georgiadis\u201d shows \u201csomething excessively toxic\u201d in Greek society, as the probe into the singer\u2019s death continues.<\/em><\/p>\n Athens, 11 September 2026<\/strong> \u2014 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.<\/p>\n In a post on X on Friday evening, Georgiadis shared a screenshot of the video. The overlay, written in Greeklish, reads: \u201cThee mou giati ton Mazwnakh kai oxi ton Adwni Georgiadh\u201d \u2014 \u201cMy God, why Mazonakis and not Adonis Georgiadis.\u201d<\/p>\n The minister said a user had uploaded \u201cthis vulgar and repulsive post\u201d and that it had already drawn about 50,000 likes, 234 comments, 839 saves and 11,227 shares.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is something excessively toxic in our society. Someone posts this vulgar and repulsive content online. Yes \u2014 he wishes I had died in Giorgos Mazonakis\u2019s place. Someone is publicly wishing for a fellow human being to die. And this post receives\u2026 50,000 likes, 234 comments, 839 saves, 11,227 shares.<\/p>\n 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The original clip circulated under the TikTok handle @xarhsxarhka and was reshared by another account, nostha.777.<\/p>\n Mazonakis, one of Greece\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s family has said it will join the criminal case and will seek to have the charges upgraded.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Friday\u2019s 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\u2019s death as a punchline against the minister.<\/p>\n\n