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00:15:19we also saw the image from the Faliro
00:15:22Delta yet. It doesn't have
00:15:25that 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
00:15:29tomorrow and over the weekend this will culminate, the
00:15:33exodus, as we say with the cliché, will happen. of madness, however, all the
00:15:36boats that are usually here in Faliro
00:15:40you don't see any boats, they have all left now
00:15:44these days they are out at sea.
00:15:47So, let's go back and open
00:15:50a topic that concerns us very much.
00:15:54It's about child disappearances. We will
00:15:57talk to Mr. Kostas Giannopoulos, the president of the Smile of the
00:16:05issue that you often highlight,
00:16:09of course, it can sometimes fly
00:16:12under the radar, however it is something very important, because
00:16:15sometimes it tends to become a trend
00:16:18among young people, mainly,
00:16:22and there is an issue about how we will manage
00:16:26this and what measures we can take to protect
00:16:29children, but give us a little bit of the framework, what exactly
00:16:32are we referring to when we talk about
00:16:36disappearances. of children, what are the characteristics we should
00:16:40look out for?
00:16:42In brief, I will say, because time is relentless,
00:16:45let's say what actually happened in the last six months, because we can
00:16:49also talk about previous years where there are ups and downs, disappearances
00:16:53are a phenomenon that exists, it exists much
00:16:56more intensely in other countries, and along with other countries there are also abductions
00:17:00by third parties, which sometimes end up in
00:17:03murders, America, 2 a day, etc., this
00:17:07means nothing, that we should have been protected, and as Greece we have
00:17:10been protected, so in the first six months of
00:17:132026 we handled
00:17:16122
00:17:19child disappearances as the Smile of the Child, because there are other cases that
00:17:22are not even reported, yes, police and so on,
00:17:25we were looking for about two children every three
00:17:28days, and the average of abductions, but here
00:17:32we are also talking about cases, Mr. Giannopoulos, where children
00:17:35conspire.
00:17:40That's something else, but to briefly tell you the reasons
00:17:44and the ages 101 children
00:17:47were boys
00:17:51between 13 and 18 years old, in adolescence, children
00:17:54in general yes, 70 were
00:17:57girls and 52 were
00:18:0070 boys and 52 were girls.
00:18:04Now the reasons are many, I will tell you. We
00:18:07are running out of time. The boys' profile is
00:18:11unaccompanied minors. These are children who unfortunately
00:18:15are not registered and
00:18:17are trafficked. The day before yesterday, a 16-year-old girl disappeared.
00:18:21We mobilized, issued an alert, and the child was found in
00:18:24Moldova. How easily, then, are children
00:18:27trafficked, and what about the movements of
00:18:31refugee children? Now, the
00:18:33girls are mainly of
00:18:37Greek origin, who
00:18:40leave for various reasons, either to escape from
00:18:43something at home or to go to
00:18:46something, someone influenced them through the internet to offer them a better
00:18:50life, that's the trap, there some children may be found
00:18:53later, but they have already lost
00:18:56their innocence, they have found themselves
00:18:59trapped in extortionate situations, some small or
00:19:03large networks that lead children and we have many.
00:19:09Mr. Giannopoulos, do they approach them through social
00:19:12media? How exactly have you identified that this approach is happening to
00:19:16these children in this sensitive adolescent age from 13 to
00:19:2018,
00:19:22this "fishing" is done, as the children say among
00:19:26themselves, and some girls,
00:19:29usually girls are more vulnerable to this issue,
00:19:32they are influenced by a better life,
00:19:35some better conditions.
00:19:38A romantic, if you will, online process
00:19:41and all these things that are normal, can
00:19:45happen even in the best homes, but it can also be a reaction sometimes, Mr.
00:19:49Giannopoulos, there are many, many things that lead
00:19:52a teenager, a teenage boy and a teenage girl, to certain actions, but
00:19:56I must say to those who say that family plays a role, yes, family
00:19:59plays a role, but sometimes even our own child
00:20:03can be exposed to certain situations that they cannot
00:20:06understand. That is, a 14-year-old girl
00:20:10who disappeared and for whom there was a mobilization and
00:20:13was found, various comments were made under
00:20:17the posts, and her mother says "my child was the best
00:20:20student, she was in music, she was in
00:20:24sports and she happened to communicate with
00:20:27someone who led her to a situation." These are the most
00:20:31dangerous, and you cannot accept that your child, your daughter
00:20:35or your son will sleep, will sleep
00:20:38outside your home for the next few
00:20:41days, 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,
00:20:49I think, because in Greek society at least it's not normal for
00:20:52children to leave. How often do you see
00:20:55such incidents, Mr. Giannopoulos?
00:20:59Unfortunately, they are frequent, we have, as I said, two
00:21:02children every three days that we have to deal with. The trend is
00:21:05increasing. The trend is stable,
00:21:09but also increasing.
00:21:12Especially with these phenomena with teenagers.
00:21:16Although there is a more increasing
00:21:20trend in refugee children who for us are all
00:21:24considered children, not second-class children, and
00:21:27we make the same move and we follow the same procedure, especially with
00:21:31the Amber Alert, we must say that for 81 children,
00:21:35public dissemination was made in the mass media and social media,
00:21:38for six children the Amber Alert was activated, for four children
00:21:42the investigation team of Thanasis
00:21:45Makris was mobilized, while for one child international cooperation was required,
00:21:49we have it.
00:21:51to be useful, it's a European line
00:21:55for child disappearances, it operates throughout
00:21:59Europe, for example, if a Greek family has
00:22:02something happen in France or in Belgium or somewhere
00:22:05else and the child gets lost for a while or something happens,
00:22:09116 will also operate in these countries, it's a common line
00:22:13for all of Europe, so the smile has been assigned
00:22:16this line for Greece and it has been emphasized and it is
00:22:20urgent and connects to 10-112 which we must
00:22:24know in emergency situations which is the
00:22:27emergency line, but it is connected
00:22:31however for dangerous situations, a child,
00:22:34that is, an unaccompanied
00:22:37minor, we have said it, we have given it, but they sometimes don't follow it,
00:22:41they might have, they might have this phone number, so if they become a victim
00:22:44of trafficking, they know wherever they are where they can call to
00:22:48ask for help. Mr. Giannopoulos, do you see these
00:22:52incidents increasing in the
00:22:53summer?
00:22:57What is increasing is suicidality, suicidal
00:23:00ideation in combination with violence, what
00:23:03is increasing is three children a day reporting suicidal
00:23:06ideation and attempted suicide and what
00:23:10is increasing is violence, which creates because children don't
00:23:13have anything to do, some think that school stops and violence
00:23:17stops. Unfortunately.
00:23:20It comes out on the streets, it comes out in the squares and
00:23:23it comes out on the internet, some children, some
00:23:26groups, as a result of these processes, there are also some
00:23:30disappearances for a certain period, and if we are not
00:23:33more protected, and thank God, and I must say it, because
00:23:37you too are fed up with the negative things that
00:23:39happen, I must say that people are mobilizing, the
00:23:43bus driver sees an 8-year-old girl
00:23:46who was traveling at night towards...
00:23:50she called the child, that is, we had time to
00:23:53mobilize, she went to find her father, who
00:23:57was on drugs in Omonia, do you understand the danger? I want to say
00:24:00then, prevention, as we say it over and over again, prevention is the
00:24:04alpha and omega, and parents can call,
00:24:08when they have some incidents, some symptoms that
00:24:11raise questions for them about how they should manage it, 24
00:24:15hours, because I must say that this operational center from where
00:24:18I am speaking right now operates 24 hours with another 13
00:24:22operational centers throughout Greece, children's problems don't go on
00:24:25vacation, so Mr.
00:24:28Giannopoulos, things about child disappearances
00:24:32and the suicidal attitudes you described
00:24:34are also about the need to belong when the
00:24:38family is not close and you don't feel that you belong there and you can belong,
00:24:42you look for somewhere else to belong. Mr.
00:25:03now, Stavros, we're going to take a trip, because the
00:25:07trip doesn't start at the airport, the trip starts much
00:25:10earlier, and we're going to take a look at the traveler's
00:25:14x-ray. Ms. Christina Anagnostopoulou, who is a travel
00:25:17analyst, will help us with this,
00:25:21so we can look at some data and analyze the way we
00:25:24travel and what
00:25:28we choose, where we choose to go, but also to look at the
00:25:31tourists who come to Greece and how
00:25:35they choose to travel.
00:25:38Good morning, thank you very much for the interesting discussion, essentially we will
00:25:41see all this data, as a company representing airlines,
00:25:45but also providing digital services to travelers,
00:25:49we can have it. in detail through the Athens airport, through the
00:25:52Iset, essentially the association of tourist
00:25:55enterprises, but also the Fraport, the regional airports,
00:25:59as well as the Bank of Greece, we can generally see how we have moved
00:26:03and how we expect to move until the summer of
00:26:052026 ends. Essentially, our big
00:26:08picture started our summer season dynamically. We have
00:26:12incoming international flights reaching
00:26:15compared to last year a plus
00:26:177.6%
00:26:19and essentially exceeding a total of 30.7
00:26:23million seats.
00:26:25Essentially, our regional airports
00:26:28are going up in terms of recreation more in the
00:26:34and we also generally see the tourist season
00:26:36extending, which is very important, we no longer have from
00:26:39June until August, but more from Easter
00:26:43until September-October, more tourism is
00:26:46expected. Not all destinations, of course, I suppose
00:26:49this concerns the most popular destinations, I wouldn't
00:26:53say so much the popular ones this year we see Samos
00:26:56being the first choice
00:27:00for both but also for the
00:27:11This applies to some specific destinations,
00:27:14I suppose, the extra two or three months at the beginning
00:27:18and end of the tourist season, very very true, so we see destinations
00:27:22that stand out: Samos, Thessaloniki, Chania and Corfu. Thessaloniki
00:27:258% has become
00:27:29a destination, people move perhaps more easily towards Chalkidiki,
00:27:33so they utilize it more precisely. We must point
00:27:36out at this point that in June, international
00:27:39passenger traffic reached 2.48
00:27:43million international flights at Athens Airport, which is also very important
00:27:46compared to last year, and here we must emphasize that approximately 5.6
00:27:50million tourists
00:27:53moved more to regional airports, which
00:27:56clearly reflects leisure tourism, that they have come to
00:27:59enjoy their summer in Greece, long distances. How important
00:28:03is it here now we have China, India, Canada, Australia
00:28:07and the United States contribute
00:28:10over 11% of tourist receipts and what
00:28:13Americans, Canadians, and Australians are essentially looking for,
00:28:17they mainly come for our sights and history, but also
00:28:21Chinese and Indians choose Greece for its nature and plains,
00:28:25as we have seen, for example, with Santorini, and let's
00:28:28take a look at a card that says where Greeks travel to see the trend.
00:28:33How do we travel and what does this reflect?
00:28:36We essentially move
00:28:3985% more by road,
00:28:42essentially what we were saying earlier about
00:28:46preferring mainland areas, exactly, exactly. Of course,
00:28:49outbound tourism is growing rapidly, with Italy being the first and steady
00:28:53choice for Greeks, Germany,
00:28:56Spain, but also Albania, due to low cost, but very nice beaches
00:29:00that we can enjoy.
00:29:02We can also give an example regarding Rome and Rhodes,
00:29:06where essentially a planned trip but without last-minute
00:29:10bookings reaches a cost for a couple of 1,000€, while
00:29:14for Rhodes we are slightly higher at 1480.
00:29:18We also see this slightly affecting the trend of Greeks. Now from this
00:29:22survey, the profile of the
00:29:25traveler, what impressed you? What
00:29:29could be more like the fact that Greeks travel by road. And
00:29:32in recent years and in the last year, traffic to
00:29:36exotic and generally external
00:29:38destinations is increasing, and generally we see the traveler moving
00:29:42differently, moving smarter, with less stress, using
00:29:46online services, such as e-sim, airport lounges,
00:29:49which give greater and
00:29:52wider movement to the trip, where they can have