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[00:15:19] we also saw the image from the Faliro
[00:15:22] Delta yet. It doesn't have
[00:15:25] that traffic one expects towards the port, it did have increased traffic in the morning when the ships were bringing people, but I think that from
[00:15:29] tomorrow and over the weekend this will culminate, the
[00:15:33] exodus, as we say with the cliché, will happen. of madness, however, all the
[00:15:36] boats that are usually here in Faliro
[00:15:40] you don't see any boats, they have all left now
[00:15:44] these days they are out at sea.
[00:15:47] So, let's go back and open
[00:15:50] a topic that concerns us very much.
[00:15:54] It's about child disappearances. We will
[00:15:57] talk to Mr. Kostas Giannopoulos, the president of the Smile of the
[00:16:05] issue that you often highlight,
[00:16:09] of course, it can sometimes fly
[00:16:12] under the radar, however it is something very important, because
[00:16:15] sometimes it tends to become a trend
[00:16:18] among young people, mainly,
[00:16:22] and there is an issue about how we will manage
[00:16:26] this and what measures we can take to protect
[00:16:29] children, but give us a little bit of the framework, what exactly
[00:16:32] are we referring to when we talk about
[00:16:36] disappearances. of children, what are the characteristics we should
[00:16:40] look out for?
[00:16:42] In brief, I will say, because time is relentless,
[00:16:45] let's say what actually happened in the last six months, because we can
[00:16:49] also talk about previous years where there are ups and downs, disappearances
[00:16:53] are a phenomenon that exists, it exists much
[00:16:56] more intensely in other countries, and along with other countries there are also abductions
[00:17:00] by third parties, which sometimes end up in
[00:17:03] murders, America, 2 a day, etc., this
[00:17:07] means nothing, that we should have been protected, and as Greece we have
[00:17:10] been protected, so in the first six months of
[00:17:13] 2026 we handled
[00:17:16] 122
[00:17:19] child disappearances as the Smile of the Child, because there are other cases that
[00:17:22] are not even reported, yes, police and so on,
[00:17:25] we were looking for about two children every three
[00:17:28] days, and the average of abductions, but here
[00:17:32] we are also talking about cases, Mr. Giannopoulos, where children
[00:17:35] conspire.
[00:17:40] That's something else, but to briefly tell you the reasons
[00:17:44] and the ages 101 children
[00:17:47] were boys
[00:17:51] between 13 and 18 years old, in adolescence, children
[00:17:54] in general yes, 70 were
[00:17:57] girls and 52 were
[00:18:00] 70 boys and 52 were girls.
[00:18:04] Now the reasons are many, I will tell you. We
[00:18:07] are running out of time. The boys' profile is
[00:18:11] unaccompanied minors. These are children who unfortunately
[00:18:15] are not registered and
[00:18:17] are trafficked. The day before yesterday, a 16-year-old girl disappeared.
[00:18:21] We mobilized, issued an alert, and the child was found in
[00:18:24] Moldova. How easily, then, are children
[00:18:27] trafficked, and what about the movements of
[00:18:31] refugee children? Now, the
[00:18:33] girls are mainly of
[00:18:37] Greek origin, who
[00:18:40] leave for various reasons, either to escape from
[00:18:43] something at home or to go to
[00:18:46] something, someone influenced them through the internet to offer them a better
[00:18:50] life, that's the trap, there some children may be found
[00:18:53] later, but they have already lost
[00:18:56] their innocence, they have found themselves
[00:18:59] trapped in extortionate situations, some small or
[00:19:03] large networks that lead children and we have many.
[00:19:09] Mr. Giannopoulos, do they approach them through social
[00:19:12] media? How exactly have you identified that this approach is happening to
[00:19:16] these children in this sensitive adolescent age from 13 to
[00:19:20] 18,
[00:19:22] this "fishing" is done, as the children say among
[00:19:26] themselves, and some girls,
[00:19:29] usually girls are more vulnerable to this issue,
[00:19:32] they are influenced by a better life,
[00:19:35] some better conditions.
[00:19:38] A romantic, if you will, online process
[00:19:41] and all these things that are normal, can
[00:19:45] happen even in the best homes, but it can also be a reaction sometimes, Mr.
[00:19:49] Giannopoulos, there are many, many things that lead
[00:19:52] a teenager, a teenage boy and a teenage girl, to certain actions, but
[00:19:56] I must say to those who say that family plays a role, yes, family
[00:19:59] plays a role, but sometimes even our own child
[00:20:03] can be exposed to certain situations that they cannot
[00:20:06] understand. That is, a 14-year-old girl
[00:20:10] who disappeared and for whom there was a mobilization and
[00:20:13] was found, various comments were made under
[00:20:17] the posts, and her mother says "my child was the best
[00:20:20] student, she was in music, she was in
[00:20:24] sports and she happened to communicate with
[00:20:27] someone who led her to a situation." These are the most
[00:20:31] dangerous, and you cannot accept that your child, your daughter
[00:20:35] or your son will sleep, will sleep
[00:20:38] outside your home for the next few
[00:20:41] days, two, three, four days. So something that people say is normal,
[00:20:45] "Oh, she went with her boyfriend, she went with her friend," it's not normal,
[00:20:49] I think, because in Greek society at least it's not normal for
[00:20:52] children to leave. How often do you see
[00:20:55] such incidents, Mr. Giannopoulos?
[00:20:59] Unfortunately, they are frequent, we have, as I said, two
[00:21:02] children every three days that we have to deal with. The trend is
[00:21:05] increasing. The trend is stable,
[00:21:09] but also increasing.
[00:21:12] Especially with these phenomena with teenagers.
[00:21:16] Although there is a more increasing
[00:21:20] trend in refugee children who for us are all
[00:21:24] considered children, not second-class children, and
[00:21:27] we make the same move and we follow the same procedure, especially with
[00:21:31] the Amber Alert, we must say that for 81 children,
[00:21:35] public dissemination was made in the mass media and social media,
[00:21:38] for six children the Amber Alert was activated, for four children
[00:21:42] the investigation team of Thanasis
[00:21:45] Makris was mobilized, while for one child international cooperation was required,
[00:21:49] we have it.
[00:21:51] to be useful, it's a European line
[00:21:55] for child disappearances, it operates throughout
[00:21:59] Europe, for example, if a Greek family has
[00:22:02] something happen in France or in Belgium or somewhere
[00:22:05] else and the child gets lost for a while or something happens,
[00:22:09] 116 will also operate in these countries, it's a common line
[00:22:13] for all of Europe, so the smile has been assigned
[00:22:16] this line for Greece and it has been emphasized and it is
[00:22:20] urgent and connects to 10-112 which we must
[00:22:24] know in emergency situations which is the
[00:22:27] emergency line, but it is connected
[00:22:31] however for dangerous situations, a child,
[00:22:34] that is, an unaccompanied
[00:22:37] minor, we have said it, we have given it, but they sometimes don't follow it,
[00:22:41] they might have, they might have this phone number, so if they become a victim
[00:22:44] of trafficking, they know wherever they are where they can call to
[00:22:48] ask for help. Mr. Giannopoulos, do you see these
[00:22:52] incidents increasing in the
[00:22:53] summer?
[00:22:57] What is increasing is suicidality, suicidal
[00:23:00] ideation in combination with violence, what
[00:23:03] is increasing is three children a day reporting suicidal
[00:23:06] ideation and attempted suicide and what
[00:23:10] is increasing is violence, which creates because children don't
[00:23:13] have anything to do, some think that school stops and violence
[00:23:17] stops. Unfortunately.
[00:23:20] It comes out on the streets, it comes out in the squares and
[00:23:23] it comes out on the internet, some children, some
[00:23:26] groups, as a result of these processes, there are also some
[00:23:30] disappearances for a certain period, and if we are not
[00:23:33] more protected, and thank God, and I must say it, because
[00:23:37] you too are fed up with the negative things that
[00:23:39] happen, I must say that people are mobilizing, the
[00:23:43] bus driver sees an 8-year-old girl
[00:23:46] who was traveling at night towards...
[00:23:50] she called the child, that is, we had time to
[00:23:53] mobilize, she went to find her father, who
[00:23:57] was on drugs in Omonia, do you understand the danger? I want to say
[00:24:00] then, prevention, as we say it over and over again, prevention is the
[00:24:04] alpha and omega, and parents can call,
[00:24:08] when they have some incidents, some symptoms that
[00:24:11] raise questions for them about how they should manage it, 24
[00:24:15] hours, because I must say that this operational center from where
[00:24:18] I am speaking right now operates 24 hours with another 13
[00:24:22] operational centers throughout Greece, children's problems don't go on
[00:24:25] vacation, so Mr.
[00:24:28] Giannopoulos, things about child disappearances
[00:24:32] and the suicidal attitudes you described
[00:24:34] are also about the need to belong when the
[00:24:38] family is not close and you don't feel that you belong there and you can belong,
[00:24:42] you look for somewhere else to belong. Mr.
[00:25:03] now, Stavros, we're going to take a trip, because the
[00:25:07] trip doesn't start at the airport, the trip starts much
[00:25:10] earlier, and we're going to take a look at the traveler's
[00:25:14] x-ray. Ms. Christina Anagnostopoulou, who is a travel
[00:25:17] analyst, will help us with this,
[00:25:21] so we can look at some data and analyze the way we
[00:25:24] travel and what
[00:25:28] we choose, where we choose to go, but also to look at the
[00:25:31] tourists who come to Greece and how
[00:25:35] they choose to travel.
[00:25:38] Good morning, thank you very much for the interesting discussion, essentially we will
[00:25:41] see all this data, as a company representing airlines,
[00:25:45] but also providing digital services to travelers,
[00:25:49] we can have it. in detail through the Athens airport, through the
[00:25:52] Iset, essentially the association of tourist
[00:25:55] enterprises, but also the Fraport, the regional airports,
[00:25:59] as well as the Bank of Greece, we can generally see how we have moved
[00:26:03] and how we expect to move until the summer of
[00:26:05] 2026 ends. Essentially, our big
[00:26:08] picture started our summer season dynamically. We have
[00:26:12] incoming international flights reaching
[00:26:15] compared to last year a plus
[00:26:17] 7.6%
[00:26:19] and essentially exceeding a total of 30.7
[00:26:23] million seats.
[00:26:25] Essentially, our regional airports
[00:26:28] are going up in terms of recreation more in the
[00:26:34] and we also generally see the tourist season
[00:26:36] extending, which is very important, we no longer have from
[00:26:39] June until August, but more from Easter
[00:26:43] until September-October, more tourism is
[00:26:46] expected. Not all destinations, of course, I suppose
[00:26:49] this concerns the most popular destinations, I wouldn't
[00:26:53] say so much the popular ones this year we see Samos
[00:26:56] being the first choice
[00:27:00] for both but also for the
[00:27:11] This applies to some specific destinations,
[00:27:14] I suppose, the extra two or three months at the beginning
[00:27:18] and end of the tourist season, very very true, so we see destinations
[00:27:22] that stand out: Samos, Thessaloniki, Chania and Corfu. Thessaloniki
[00:27:25] 8% has become
[00:27:29] a destination, people move perhaps more easily towards Chalkidiki,
[00:27:33] so they utilize it more precisely. We must point
[00:27:36] out at this point that in June, international
[00:27:39] passenger traffic reached 2.48
[00:27:43] million international flights at Athens Airport, which is also very important
[00:27:46] compared to last year, and here we must emphasize that approximately 5.6
[00:27:50] million tourists
[00:27:53] moved more to regional airports, which
[00:27:56] clearly reflects leisure tourism, that they have come to
[00:27:59] enjoy their summer in Greece, long distances. How important
[00:28:03] is it here now we have China, India, Canada, Australia
[00:28:07] and the United States contribute
[00:28:10] over 11% of tourist receipts and what
[00:28:13] Americans, Canadians, and Australians are essentially looking for,
[00:28:17] they mainly come for our sights and history, but also
[00:28:21] Chinese and Indians choose Greece for its nature and plains,
[00:28:25] as we have seen, for example, with Santorini, and let's
[00:28:28] take a look at a card that says where Greeks travel to see the trend.
[00:28:33] How do we travel and what does this reflect?
[00:28:36] We essentially move
[00:28:39] 85% more by road,
[00:28:42] essentially what we were saying earlier about
[00:28:46] preferring mainland areas, exactly, exactly. Of course,
[00:28:49] outbound tourism is growing rapidly, with Italy being the first and steady
[00:28:53] choice for Greeks, Germany,
[00:28:56] Spain, but also Albania, due to low cost, but very nice beaches
[00:29:00] that we can enjoy.
[00:29:02] We can also give an example regarding Rome and Rhodes,
[00:29:06] where essentially a planned trip but without last-minute
[00:29:10] bookings reaches a cost for a couple of 1,000€, while
[00:29:14] for Rhodes we are slightly higher at 1480.
[00:29:18] We also see this slightly affecting the trend of Greeks. Now from this
[00:29:22] survey, the profile of the
[00:29:25] traveler, what impressed you? What
[00:29:29] could be more like the fact that Greeks travel by road. And
[00:29:32] in recent years and in the last year, traffic to
[00:29:36] exotic and generally external
[00:29:38] destinations is increasing, and generally we see the traveler moving
[00:29:42] differently, moving smarter, with less stress, using
[00:29:46] online services, such as e-sim, airport lounges,
[00:29:49] which give greater and
[00:29:52] wider movement to the trip, where they can have