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[00:00:00] at their lowest point since the beginning of official records in
[00:00:04] 1880, essentially disrupting
[00:00:07] supply chains, increasing shipping costs
[00:00:11] and forcing companies to also reduce their production.
[00:00:15] A similar situation is presented by the Po River in
[00:00:19] Italy. We are talking about the largest river in
[00:00:22] Italy. The drought alert level has been set at this
[00:00:26] point on the map as high, with ecosystems, but also agricultural. It is
[00:00:30] terrible,
[00:00:33] rivers are disappearing, drought is spreading, casting its
[00:00:42] Italy and Spain is escalating, due to immigration.
[00:00:46] Madrid, Maria Kapiri, imposes border controls
[00:00:50] for travelers arriving from Italy,
[00:00:53] responding to similar measures taken by Rome after
[00:00:57] the massive migration flows to Ceuta. The
[00:01:00] diplomatic crisis, Marco, between Italy and Spain
[00:01:04] continues. The Spanish authorities also imposed
[00:01:07] border controls on all travelers coming
[00:01:11] from Italy starting today, early morning Greek time,
[00:01:14] and will be in effect for a whole month until September 7th. The
[00:01:18] Sanchez government had asked Meloni to reinstate the
[00:01:22] Schengen agreement, which has been suspended until at least August 15th.
[00:01:25] it does not succumb to blackmail,
[00:01:29] while border controls, citing
[00:01:32] fears that undocumented migrants could cross the Strait of Gibraltar
[00:01:36] and exploit the Schengen area
[00:01:39] without passports, in order to continue their journey to
[00:01:43] Italy and other countries of the European Union. However, the
[00:01:47] Spanish authorities and the European Commission assured that
[00:01:50] none of the people who arrived in Ceuta have
[00:01:54] crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. Thank you
[00:01:57] very much, Maria, new geopolitical data. The
[00:02:01] signing of the joint defense agreement between Turkey, Saudi
[00:02:05] Arabia, and Pakistan is creating a new geopolitical reality, which
[00:02:08] provides for mutual assistance in case of an attack, in
[00:02:12] one of the most significant strategic realignments in the powder keg of the
[00:02:16] East.
[00:02:21] A nuclear power, Pakistan, the second largest
[00:02:25] army in NATO, Turkey, and oil-rich Saudi
[00:02:28] Arabia. They write in the MCA common defense agreement
[00:02:32] inspired by Article 5 of
[00:02:35] NATO.
[00:02:38] Well, I mean, it has very resemblance to NATO article five in the sense that it spells
[00:02:41] out that attack on one member is attack on all members, so in
[00:02:45] this regard, the is has the semblance to NATO's
[00:02:48] article five, but we need to see this
[00:02:52] how it is going to be operationalized when one
[00:02:55] of this party faces attack.
[00:02:59] The
[00:03:19] to come to the aid of another one if attacked and Saudi Arabia is being attacked from both sides,
[00:03:23] from Iranian back militias in Iraq and Iranian back
[00:03:26] Houthis in Yemen. So the test of this.
[00:04:00] still remains indispensable for many and region actors,
[00:04:03] but US is also seen as unreliable and
[00:04:06] unpredictable. All those three countries are allies of the United States, but
[00:04:10] Saudi Arabia is historically dependent on the US for a lot of its
[00:04:14] protection and its support. And so for the Saudis to now sign this
[00:04:18] agreement really speaks to as it faces real
[00:04:21] hostilities from Yemen's Houthis and also
[00:04:24] warnings from Iran that this kind of pact is not going to protect them,
[00:04:28] instead its policies.
[00:04:31] With, it is, it is really new, it is really new and I think
[00:04:35] that the first, the first observation one
[00:04:38] makes is that these countries, and I refer not so much to
[00:04:42] Turkey, but mainly to Saudi Arabia and
[00:04:45] Pakistan, feel the need to
[00:04:49] create something. Why? Why,
[00:04:52] mainly, because they believe that the United States is not
[00:04:55] a reliable partner, it is not the guarantor of
[00:04:58] regional stability.
[00:05:00] Which was until recently in the background of the agreement of the major
[00:05:04] Sunni powers in the region, also the
[00:05:07] goal of limiting the influence of Shiite Iran,
[00:05:11] while in the foreground... come the possible complications for Israel. From
[00:05:15] Israel's perspective, this is a very worrying
[00:05:18] development. It adds a military dimension to a
[00:05:22] political front that has shown a consistent anti-Israel
[00:05:25] stance. It is also worrying as both Saudi
[00:05:28] Arabia and Turkey may be considering the nuclear
[00:05:32] issue and have much to gain from close defense
[00:05:35] cooperation with Pakistan. And the details remain to be seen, with the only
[00:05:39] data so far being that the security architecture in the...
[00:05:42] region is diversifying, as its players, instead of
[00:05:45] seeking, as they traditionally did, external security
[00:05:49] guarantees, are fortifying themselves by choosing to
[00:05:52] form alliances among themselves.
[00:05:54] Athens is weighing the tripartite defense agreement, which
[00:05:58] remains defensively and diplomatically fortified, with the
[00:06:02] opposition criticizing the government's handling of foreign
[00:06:06] policy.
[00:06:08] Athens is watching the developments from the signing of a defense
[00:06:12] agreement and mutual assistance between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and
[00:06:16] Pakistan with coolness, given the support it provides to Riyadh with
[00:06:19] a Greek Patriot battery.
[00:06:22] The government estimates that the country is defensively and diplomatically fortified,
[00:06:26] so as not to worry about the new alliance in the Middle
[00:06:29] East, while the opposition accuses it of wrong strategy in foreign
[00:06:32] policy. Any country that has relations with
[00:06:36] Greece does not mean it cannot have relations with Turkey and vice versa.
[00:06:40] They are not enemies and friends. Everything is a continuous
[00:06:43] effort and a continuous diplomatic intervention. At this moment
[00:06:47] Greece is very strong both diplomatically and
[00:06:49] defensively. These developments strengthen Turkey
[00:06:53] geopolitically and essentially change the balance of power between Turkey
[00:06:57] and Greece for the worse. We must be concerned as a country to have
[00:07:01] a different national strategy. A strategy with depth is needed. This government
[00:07:04] does not have this. That is why we need another government, more
[00:07:08] determined, more dynamic, that understands that the country must be
[00:07:12] more... extroverted. Harsh criticism regarding the Patriots in
[00:07:15] Saudi Arabia is also exercised by the other opposition parties.
[00:07:19] Here and now, the return of the battery from Saudi
[00:07:22] Arabia, the frigate from the Red Sea, as well as all Greek armed
[00:07:26] forces that are outside its borders. When a country
[00:07:28] signs a military agreement with your enemy, your only move to
[00:07:32] save your dignity is to immediately withdraw the Patriots from its
[00:07:36] territory. If you do not do so immediately, you are either a fool
[00:07:40] or a traitor. They said.
[00:07:47] Arabia, are now followed by a magnificent void from
[00:07:51] the Saudi leadership, which is signing strategic
[00:07:54] agreements with Turkey. In this light, information from the
[00:07:58] Ministry of Defense indicates that the stay of the Greek artillery battery in
[00:08:02] Saudi Arabia will be re-examined every month and not every year,
[00:08:05] as it is. The same sources claim that this was a
[00:08:09] proposal made in March 2026 by the Minister.
[00:08:14] in full alignment with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and about which the Saudi Arabian embassy in
[00:08:18] Athens was informed.
[00:08:21] In the Middle East, the negotiating landscape
[00:08:24] Athina Papakosta remains extremely unclear around the
[00:08:28] status of the Strait of Hormuz with new reports from the
[00:08:32] American side about an impending agreement. Iran, through its
[00:08:35] Minister of Foreign Affairs, stresses that Tehran and Muscat are
[00:08:39] very close to reaching an agreement for a new
[00:08:42] shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. According to
[00:08:46] Abbas Araghchi, Iran and Oman are discussing a temporary
[00:08:49] shipping route, while also resolving technical and legal issues concerning
[00:08:53] a permanent route. At the same time, the Revolutionary Guards clarify that the
[00:08:57] opening of the Strait of Hormuz is not related to the negotiations between
[00:09:01] Iran and Oman, but to the acceptance of Iran's terms by
[00:09:04] the United States. The US, however, reportedly insists. An American
[00:09:08] official stresses that the United States expects an agreement
[00:09:11] soon between Iran and Oman to restore
[00:09:15] the smooth flow of oil transport. On its part,
[00:09:18] Oman states that talks with Iran on the future management of the Strait of
[00:09:22] Hormuz are positive, while also warning of attacks targeting
[00:09:25] shipping in this strategically important
[00:09:28] sea lane. Earlier today, it was announced that a tanker
[00:09:32] was hit by an unknown missile 18
[00:09:35] nautical miles east of Khasab in Oman, resulting in a
[00:09:38] fire on board. The ship and crew are safe.
[00:09:42] In a serious development in the Black Sea, Athina, according
[00:09:45] to Bloomberg, Turkey imposes restrictions
[00:09:49] on the movement of merchant ships to the Russian port of
[00:09:52] Novorossiysk, one of the most important hubs for oil
[00:09:55] and grain exports in the Black Sea. As Bloomberg reports, the
[00:09:59] Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety has informed several
[00:10:02] ships bound for Novorossiysk that it is currently not issuing permits for their
[00:10:06] passage or that more time is required
[00:10:10] to examine the relevant requests. Sources also
[00:10:13] state that some ships have been notified that the
[00:10:16] restrictions also apply to routes to Ukraine. As emphasized, the
[00:10:20] restrictions do not appear to constitute a general
[00:10:23] suspension of commercial shipping through the Dardanelles. Ship movement
[00:10:27] tracking data also collected by Bloomberg showed that ships bound for
[00:10:30] Turkish or Bulgarian ports continued to move north
[00:10:34] through the straits unimpeded. So far, Turkish authorities have not
[00:10:38] provided an official explanation for
[00:10:45] where it was targeted by a fierce Russian
[00:10:48] attack, resulting in deaths and massive destruction. Russian
[00:10:52] forces also struck Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea, with
[00:10:56] all eyes on Zelensky's first visit to Serbia.
[00:10:59] Another night of Russian
[00:11:03] attacks with missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles
[00:11:07] on the outskirts of Kyiv.
[00:11:10] Four people lost their lives, including a child, while dozens of
[00:11:14] buildings were engulfed in
[00:11:17] flames. The residents of Kyiv are once
[00:11:20] again facing scenes of destruction, as Moscow
[00:11:24] exploits Ukraine's weakened
[00:11:27] air defense and tightens its grip around the
[00:11:29] capital. The Russian Ministry of Defense
[00:11:33] claims that its forces hit three Ukrainian ships in the Black
[00:11:37] Sea, which, it stated, were carrying
[00:11:40] ammunition.
[00:11:42] And all this while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
[00:11:45] is making his first official visit to
[00:11:48] Serbia after the start of the war. The discussion agenda
[00:11:52] between Zelensky and his Serbian counterpart. Issues of
[00:11:57] economy, security, but also Serbia's accession path
[00:12:01] to the European Union. And we will be glad if
[00:12:04] Serbia's path to the European Union accelerates. We all in
[00:12:08] Europe must cooperate with each
[00:12:10] other,
[00:12:15] Zelensky's visit to Serbia is of paramount
[00:12:18] importance. As Belgrade maintains
[00:12:21] close ties with Russia. Serbs have sent
[00:12:24] humanitarian aid to Ukraine, but have
[00:12:26] rejected imposing sanctions on
[00:12:30] Moscow.
[00:12:32] Alarm in Bulgaria, a NATO member state, raised
[00:12:36] Maria Kapiri, a serious incident with a drone that entered the
[00:12:39] country and exploded. This morning, Marco Drown
[00:12:43] entered Bulgarian airspace from its border with
[00:12:46] Romania and exploded near the village of Kartnam. The
[00:12:50] incident, which caused no damage or injuries, took
[00:12:54] place very close to the Trans-Balkan natural gas pipeline, which
[00:12:57] is international and extends from Turkey to Ukraine,
[00:13:01] while particular concern is caused by the fact that the unmanned
[00:13:05] aerial vehicle was not detected earlier by either the
[00:13:08] Bulgarian or the Romanian authorities. The Prime Minister of
[00:13:11] Bulgaria stated that the security of the country's strategic
[00:13:14] facilities will be strengthened, while earlier the country's Ministry of Defense
[00:13:18] announced that the drone was probably Ukrainian and the
[00:13:21] incident was an
[00:13:27] remain high despite a small
[00:13:30] de-escalation, and what causes outrage among consumers
[00:13:34] is that when international prices rise, increases at the
[00:13:38] pump are immediate, while when international prices
[00:13:41] fall, prices at the pump remain high. Let's look at the
[00:13:45] paradox. See here, on May 4th, when the international price
[00:13:49] of oil was $114 a
[00:13:51] barrel, the average price of unleaded in Greece
[00:13:55] was 2.08 euros per liter, while yesterday,
[00:13:58] August 7th, with the international price of oil at
[00:14:02] $83.5,
[00:14:04] the average price of unleaded along with the subsidy from
[00:14:08] refineries, was just under 2 euros, it was
[00:14:12] 1.97 euros per liter. Let's
[00:14:15] watch the report.
[00:14:19] Holidays with a full tank, but also
[00:14:22] a heavy receipt. I filled it with 20 euros. Now I need
[00:14:26] at least 30 for half, if I fill it, it's double. I will
[00:14:30] put some liters, I will do my
[00:14:33] job, meaning around 60-70, how much will it be, because it's
[00:14:36] about 2 euros and next week we will see
[00:14:39] and as travel increases for summer holidays,
[00:14:43] the more the cost of fuel weighs on the
[00:14:46] family budget. Those who came to fill their tanks
[00:14:50] here in Attica, just before leaving for their summer holidays, will see the
[00:14:54] price of regular unleaded forming at
[00:14:57] 1.94 and diesel at
[00:15:00] 1.89 euros per liter. A
[00:15:02] two-day trip to Preveza and the
[00:15:05] fares, tickets and fuel have all
[00:15:08] increased. A few holidays, a few days to
[00:15:11] rest, the first thing you will look at is how far it is so you can
[00:15:15] calculate. The closer, the better. More days, in
[00:15:19] Attica the average price of regular unleaded is
[00:15:22] 1.93 euros per liter with the
[00:15:26] 10 cent subsidy from refineries. In Paros, it reaches
[00:15:29] 2.25 euros, in Rhodes 2.16 and
[00:15:33] in Lefkada 2.047 euros per
[00:15:36] liter. It's just gasoline, everything is at record highs. For
[00:15:40] diesel, the situation remains equally pressing. In
[00:15:43] Attica, it's set at 1.92 euros per
[00:15:46] liter, despite the 15 cent subsidy. In
[00:15:50] Paros, diesel reaches 2.20, in Rhodes
[00:15:53] 2.070, while in Lefkada, it's
[00:15:56] 2.030 euros per liter. A small difference, I don't think
[00:15:59] it's noticeable. When prices go up, they go up the next day, and when
[00:16:03] they are supposed to fall, they never fall. And here the
[00:16:07] question arises. How is it that the price of unleaded is almost the
[00:16:10] same whether oil is at its zenith at
[00:16:13] $114 in May or at
[00:16:16] $83 where it closed the week?
[00:16:20] The price of Brent crude oil has a small
[00:16:23] specific weight in the overall depiction of the
[00:16:26] price of refined products, gasoline and diesel. Other
[00:16:30] factors that keep the price of refined products high
[00:16:33] are the euro-dollar exchange rate, the special
[00:16:36] consumption tax. And VAT is the cost of distribution to the islands and
[00:16:40] also it is the future contract, that is, for how long
[00:16:44] the refineries estimate that they can procure the
[00:16:47] product based on the current geopolitical geostrategic
[00:16:50] situation, we will be going down, slowly,
[00:16:54] we cannot make leaps, because the invoices show us the
[00:16:57] way, so based on invoices accordingly
[00:17:00] we proceed and somehow the international price may
[00:17:03] decrease, but until the drop reaches the pump through
[00:17:07] many factors.
[00:17:10] Athens is taking an important step towards the further development of
[00:17:13] tourism activity and investments, while
[00:17:17] simultaneously protecting the natural environment,
[00:17:21] through the signing of the special spatial plan for
[00:17:24] tourism. Let's go with the help of Elena Chelbantzoglou
[00:17:27] to see in detail, Elena, what the spatial plan and its
[00:17:31] basic pillars provide. A new Marco landscape for tourism
[00:17:35] investments in the country is shaped by the new
[00:17:38] tourism, which was approved by a joint ministerial decision of the Ministers of
[00:17:42] Environment and Energy and Tourism. The key element is that
[00:17:45] now the entire country is divided into five categories
[00:17:48] according to the intensity of tourism activity. Initially, in
[00:17:52] category A, which concerns areas of controlled development, the
[00:17:56] strictest rules apply. This is followed by developed,
[00:17:59] developing, and areas of early development, while there is also
[00:18:03] a fifth category, that of special development
[00:18:05] enhancement. Let's look at one of the most significant changes:
[00:18:09] the terms for new hotels outside urban planning
[00:18:12] are changing, meaning the required land size is significantly increasing
[00:18:16] in the most burdened areas. Even more interesting is the
[00:18:20] regulation for islands, where a special regime is introduced, with the exception of
[00:18:24] Crete and Evia. There, for the first time, a progressive system is introduced
[00:18:27] for the capacity of tourist
[00:18:30] accommodations. At the same time, the islands are also divided into three
[00:18:33] groups according to their size, with different restrictions on
[00:18:37] tourism development. The philosophy of the new Marco framework
[00:18:41] is essentially more development where there is
[00:18:44] space and stricter rules where tourism has already
[00:18:48] reached its limits, with the aim of simultaneously protecting
[00:19:08] Aegean, prompted by the signing of the special
[00:19:11] spatial plan for tourism by the Ministries of Environment and
[00:19:15] Tourism. The plan concerns the further development
[00:19:19] of tourism activity and the attraction of investments with simultaneous
[00:19:22] priority to the protection of the natural and cultural environment, but Turkey
[00:19:26] attempts to instrumentalize it regarding the Aegean and its unacceptable claims.
[00:19:29] It will have no legal consequences for Turkey within
[00:19:33] the context of the interconnected issues of the Aegean between the two
[00:19:36] countries, taking into account certain geographical
[00:19:39] features, whose sovereignty was not granted to Greece
[00:19:42] through international treaties. Unilateral actions should be
[00:19:45] avoided in closed or non-closed seas, such as the Aegean
[00:19:49] and the Mediterranean. This is not the first time Ankara has reacted to Greek
[00:19:53] initiatives, reiterating its long-standing positions. It is a repetition of
[00:19:56] Turkey's long-standing positions, which we have seen before. The question
[00:20:00] is how things will develop and how Turkey will
[00:20:04] react to other Greek initiatives, not the right one.
[00:20:07] in the spatial framework for tourism, as much as in,
[00:20:10] in, in, when the implementation of the
[00:20:14] electrical interconnection with Cyprus begins. Through this
[00:20:17] policy, essentially
[00:20:19] foreign policy is also being made,
[00:20:23] it is not just about defining our maritime zones, even with
[00:20:27] the spatial planning that concerns our islands, even
[00:20:31] with the marine parks. Similar
[00:20:35] reactions were seen from Turkey after the announcement.
[00:20:41] The political mercury remains high in political confrontation,
[00:20:45] triggered by the decision of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court
[00:20:48] to keep the wiretapping case in the archives, with the government and
[00:20:52] opposition exchanging fierce accusations. The decision of the
[00:20:56] Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Evangelos Bakelas, to
[00:20:59] reject the reopening of the
[00:21:02] wiretapping case from the archives is developing
[00:21:05] into a new field of political confrontation. The requests had been submitted, among others, by Antonis
[00:21:09] Samaras and Christos Spirtzis. Harilaos Trikoupis lashes out
[00:21:13] at the government and argues that critical questions surrounding
[00:21:17] the case remain unanswered.
[00:21:52] of the prosecutorial body, of the judicial body.
[00:21:56] The criticism from the opposition was also harsh. The
[00:21:59] provocative insistence of justice serves
[00:22:02] the government multiple times in its attempt to cover up
[00:22:05] its responsibilities for this dirty scandal. The scandal that
[00:22:09] started from the Maximos Mansion is being attempted to be buried
[00:22:12] once again, but democracy is not
[00:22:16] archived. The attempt to cover up the scandal continues with the
[00:22:20] cooperation of the government and the Supreme Court. The country must
[00:22:23] breathe and no matter how many cogs they move,
[00:22:26] in the end, truth, light, and justice will
[00:22:29] prevail. In the end, we will have oxygen and
[00:22:33] life. Citizens are watching and judging this unacceptable stance
[00:22:37] of senior justice officials who stubbornly refuse to investigate
[00:22:40] such an important case with political ramifications.
[00:22:44] We cannot judge the decisions of justice differently.
[00:22:48] In a statement, the Union of Prosecutors of Greece expresses
[00:22:52] its intense concern about the use of characterizations that, as it
[00:22:55] states, exceed the limits of harsh criticism of a prosecutorial
[00:22:59] judgment and the limits of permissible criticism when not based
[00:23:03] on specific new factual evidence and legal
[00:23:06] arguments. Tragedy just now in
[00:23:10] Paros, a four-year-old child was found dead in a designated
[00:23:13] swimming pool. According to the information we have so far,
[00:23:16] Marco, the child was found by two women who
[00:23:20] saw it in the pool. Immediately, an employee of the
[00:23:24] establishment entered the water, who retrieved the child and began to provide first
[00:23:28] aid. An EKAV ambulance arrived very quickly at the scene.
[00:23:32] The rescuers made superhuman efforts to
[00:23:35] revive the four-year-old child. Unfortunately, they did not succeed.
[00:23:38] What the authorities are now investigating are the exact circumstances under which the
[00:23:42] child was found in the pool. According to the same information, the
[00:23:46] parents were in the beach bar area, but they were not at that
[00:23:50] moment near the child. At the same time, the owner of the
[00:23:53] business appears to have been registered as a lifeguard at the establishment. The police have
[00:23:57] proceeded with arrests, including the owner of the beach bar and
[00:24:01] the child's parents, while the investigation is in full swing
[00:24:04] to clarify what exactly happened and whether all
[00:24:08] prescribed safety measures were observed. Marco. Thank you,
[00:24:11] Mary. Significant developments are taking place at the prosecutorial
[00:24:14] level, Panagiotis Spyropoulos, regarding the
[00:24:17] network of the wind farm,
[00:24:20] from where the fire started in Viotia and
[00:24:23] spread to Western Attica. The autopsy report,
[00:24:26] Marco, at the location Mavros Spytharis, at ground zero, that is, of the devastating fire.
[00:24:30] demonstrates in detail the deficiencies, construction errors
[00:24:33] and other defects in the power supply of the wind farm which caused the
[00:24:37] sparks that started the fire. After the
[00:24:39] arrests of the owner of the wind farm, as well as the 50-year-old
[00:24:43] mayor who signed the electricity distribution study,
[00:24:46] and the 79-year-old installer of the overhead network. The
[00:24:50] decentralized administration of Thessaly, Greece, following a relevant document from the
[00:24:54] investigator of Thiva, applied the provision of suspending the license
[00:24:58] of the wind farm indefinitely in order to ensure the integrity of the area until
[00:25:02] all necessary investigative actions are completed. Essentially, the
[00:25:05] park stopped its operation. Meanwhile, the investigator
[00:25:09] sent two provisions to the fire department's crime fighting
[00:25:12] division. The first for the conduct of an autopsy on the
[00:25:15] remaining overhead electricity distribution network at the wind farm,
[00:25:19] as the same failures that caused the large fire may
[00:25:22] also exist in another part of the network. The second provision concerns the
[00:25:26] guarding of the remaining overhead electricity installation network in order
[00:25:30] to exclude the possibility of corrective changes to it,
[00:25:33] i.e., alteration of evidence in the case. It is noted that the wind
[00:25:36] farm has three other sections of overhead network 3 km long,
[00:25:40] which, however, are located within a radius of 40
[00:25:43] km. Panagiotis, do you have photographic
[00:25:46] evidence for the start of the fire in Karystos?
[00:25:50] Yes, it is about the fire that broke out in Kolyampada of Karystos at noon on August
[00:25:53] 6. The executives of the crime fighting division of the fire department
[00:25:56] immediately located findings, as we saw before, for the start of the
[00:26:00] fire, which were captured in photographs. That we are presenting. The
[00:26:03] fire broke out from an electric generator that we saw in the
[00:26:07] previous photograph, which was used by a 63-year-old woman
[00:26:10] who was arrested for the power supply of a storage area that
[00:26:19] the start of the fire in Corinthia? Yes, these are the ones
[00:26:23] we see in front of our screens, for yesterday's fire that broke out at noon in Stefani
[00:26:27] of Corinthia. It quickly spread, even causing an
[00:26:30] emergency message 112. The competent authorities found that it started
[00:26:33] from a photovoltaic park in the area. It started from an
[00:26:37] inverter, the one we see on our screens, a
[00:26:40] photovoltaic one from a short circuit in an area that, in fact,
[00:26:43] had not been cleaned according to the existing legislation. The managers stated
[00:26:47] that there was a problem with that particular inverter in the previous days and they
[00:26:50] had deactivated it. However, it seems that it was still working.
[00:26:54] The manager and the maintenance and operation subcontractor of the
[00:26:57] park were arrested. Thank you Panagiotis. New
[00:27:00] shocking documents from the dramatic
[00:27:04] sea rescue operation of hundreds
[00:27:07] of people from the fiery nightmare in Viotia have come to light. They were safely
[00:27:11] evacuated thanks to the heroic
[00:27:14] efforts of firefighters, coastguards, and
[00:27:29] in Viotia on the afternoon of last Friday. And the floating
[00:27:33] means of the fire department approach Agios Vasilios to
[00:27:36] evacuate the people who are trapped on the beach. First into
[00:27:40] battle is the fast boat Rafnar, while a little later
[00:27:43] the fireboat Mouzakitis arrives. Thick smoke from the
[00:27:47] fiery front has covered the settlement and citizens find refuge on the
[00:27:50] pier. Families, elderly people and people with disabilities,
[00:27:54] following the instructions of the authorities, await the sea evacuation
[00:27:57] operation. The desperate efforts for the
[00:28:00] extrication are captured.
[00:28:07] Private boats transport citizens to the fire department's
[00:28:10] vessels.
[00:28:16] With the sea rough due to the stormy winds, one by one
[00:28:19] people of all ages carefully board the floating
[00:28:23] means in order to be moved to a safe
[00:28:25] location.
[00:28:29] A few hours after the operation in Agios Vasilios, in the early hours of Saturday,
[00:28:33] the flames reached Porto Germeno. The fire department's
[00:28:36] speedboat evacuated a family of four and an
[00:28:40] elderly woman from the beach.
[00:28:43] From the pier of Agios Vasilios, a total of 254 citizens were rescued,
[00:28:46] of whom 238
[00:28:50] were transferred to Livadostrata beach and 16 to the
[00:28:53] port of Antikyra. In the maritime operations, in addition to the fire department,
[00:28:56] a coastguard vessel, two tugboats, as well as five private
[00:29:00] vessels assisted.
[00:29:05] A 49-year-old was arrested in Paleo Faliro, Panagiotis Spyropoulos,
[00:29:07] in the context of the investigations into the Russian-speaking
[00:29:11] Mafia. Yes, Markos, the 49-year-old expatriate from Krasnodar
[00:29:14] in Russia, who was arrested by executives of the extortion investigation department in
[00:29:18] Paleo Faliro, belongs to the group of Bulldog or Pitbull dogs of 50-year-old Edik, the voice from Dubai, i.e., the leader of the
[00:29:21] Russian-speaking Mafia. An arrest warrant was also pending against him for his
[00:29:25] participation in the criminal organization. This particular group consisted of a quartet
[00:29:28] of burly men from Menidi, Markos, who, at Edik's command, indiscriminately
[00:29:32] beat, extorted, and took money from people with great
[00:29:36] financial standing. And they collected very large
[00:29:39] amounts. Yes, Markos, among other things, 10 days after the
[00:29:43] murder of the so-called Uncle Joe in Skourta Viotias in
[00:29:46] 2022, the dogs extorted 1
[00:29:50] million from the owner of a well-known coffee chain,
[00:29:52] placed improvised explosive devices in two stores of a 59-year-old known
[00:29:56] owner of a chain of pawn shops as part
[00:29:59] of extortion for payment to a Turkish partner for the export of gold
[00:30:03] to Turkey, something that the businessman had even refused.
[00:30:06] And their armament is terrifying. According to
[00:30:10] the relevant complaint, the 49-year-old and the other Pitbulls
[00:30:13] had obtained military weapons, even bazookas, from Russia to carry out their
[00:30:16] plans. The 49-year-old was arrested along with a
[00:30:20] 37-year-old, Markos, while moving in a luxury car. The
[00:30:23] 37-year-old, in fact, belonged to the same hardened group, had been arrested in the spring of 2022
[00:30:27] but was imprisoned after 8 months. The 49-year-old had been wanted by the authorities
[00:30:30] since 2003 for extortions and bodily harm. However, in
[00:30:34] 2010 he participated in a conspiracy that committed robberies in banks and
[00:30:38] in fact in one of them in Piraeus, customers were held hostage
[00:30:42] for several hours with the use of hand grenades and weapons. However, a European arrest
[00:30:45] warrant from the Cypriot authorities was also pending against him, accused of
[00:30:49] premeditated murder. From what it seems, he was imprisoned and continued his activities
[00:30:52] with Edik's gang.
[00:30:56] φυλακίστηκε και συνέχισε τη δράση του με τη συμμορία του έτικ.