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00:00:00which really, you know, pressure the hospital,
00:00:03let alone that no one respects human
00:00:06dignity. Mr. Rikas, first of all, there
00:00:10is no place in our country where lawlessness
00:00:12prevails. Also, it is logical that the entire
00:00:16volume, the burden, is transferred to the islands during the
00:00:19summer months, because we have a very large population and tourists. That is
00:00:23why there are detachments of police officers to strengthen the
00:00:27services there, the directorates, in order to respond.
00:00:33And in these areas there is intense policing of this
00:00:37controversial area.
00:00:41Allow me, you can refer to journalists.
00:00:45You can refer to journalists who have reported
00:00:48in the specific area to find out what
00:00:51is happening. Proof of what I am saying is that every day
00:00:54we have case files which are led to the local prosecutors
00:00:58with all kinds of illegal and irregular
00:01:01actions. Now, if in the hospital of
00:01:05Zakynthos there had been more than these three cases that we are talking about and
00:01:08other cases, I think that the
00:01:12hospital is obliged to report it
00:01:15to the police and judicial authorities, because
00:01:18there is indeed a gap of five incidents in
00:01:21which the police cannot
00:01:24take the next
00:01:25step.
00:01:41Yes, okay, yes, there is no question of opposition here. But if, let's be clear, if
00:01:44for any reason, because in general, we have a very good cooperation with the
00:01:48hospitals, from when someone is admitted for a traffic accident or when someone is admitted
00:01:52abused, a woman with abusive behavior immediately or
00:01:56a minor immediately. The authorities, the Hellenic
00:02:00Police should be informed, and now the doctors do this, so that the
00:02:03preliminary investigator immediately arrives
00:02:06there to start, if there is a reason, and the prosecutor's office is informed to
00:02:09start a case file. So, we say this to all hospitals where
00:02:13we realize that there is abusive behavior or rape or
00:02:17anything, the authorities should be informed, in this case the police. We just
00:02:20if you allow me to point out the following: in the hospital of
00:02:24Zakynthos, about
00:02:27200 people per day come to the emergency room
00:02:31with health problems.
00:02:3480% are tourists, the overwhelming
00:02:37majority of them are from the Laganas area, so
00:02:41something is not right there. If the police are doing their
00:02:44job, they are doing it, but something is not right there and everyone
00:02:48knows that, I think, I am not saying it.
00:02:51What exactly is the
00:02:54issue at this moment, Mr.
00:02:57Giannakis?
00:02:59We say that there should be better control in
00:03:03this area and at the same time
00:03:06we say that there is incredible pressure. We are not saying that the hospital of
00:03:10Zakynthos can become Evangelismos, that is, to have
00:03:13500 doctors, but we emphasize and we want
00:03:16to congratulate our colleagues there, that small
00:03:20hospitals in conditions of occupational burnout
00:03:24services.
00:03:28Do you know what that means? 200 people a day, 200
00:03:31patients a day means that they see 800
00:03:35patients every four days, as many as you see in the emergency room, the
00:03:38Attikon and the Evangelismos.
00:03:42Indeed, it is true that the medical staff of our country is under
00:03:45pressure, especially during these summer
00:03:47months. We support them all with all our strength, they are
00:03:51employees who have truly supported, as have the
00:03:54police, the port authorities and the firefighters, they have supported the
00:03:57structure of this country so that we can have safe
00:04:01holidays, from the pillars, so we must have
00:04:04absolute cooperation, which we have and will continue to have. Our
00:04:07greetings to the president of POEDIN, we thank him very much and we
00:04:11will follow the issue from the news bulletins. Let
00:04:15's continue our discussion,
00:04:18because there is also the issue
00:04:20of Theodosis,
00:04:23or rather the case of the Greek mafia, we also have developments
00:04:27there, another heavy case file for
00:04:30the Hellenic Police and the authorities
00:04:32overall. Of course, because yesterday's
00:04:36development is very important. Yesterday's development in the city is
00:04:40near Dusseldorf where Elias from
00:04:44Georgia, a Greek expatriate, was arrested by the German authorities
00:04:47after cooperation with the Organized Crime Directorate,
00:04:50what we used to call the Greek
00:04:53FBI. He is accused of at least three
00:04:56murders of the Greek mafia, very well-known names,
00:05:00Skafouros, Roumbetis,
00:05:03and Zambounis, also known as Zaboun, in the
00:05:06new case. His
00:05:09presence in these murders
00:05:12is confirmed. He is a member of the notorious Russian-speaking mafia
00:05:15whose leader is in Dubai,
00:05:19according to reports, Elias from Georgia, who
00:05:23was also involved in this whole mafia of cigarette smugglers, that is, illegal
00:05:26tobacco, is one of the
00:05:30two main hitmen of the leader of the
00:05:34Russian-speaking mafia in Greece and he is obviously not his
00:05:38slave. The fact that in his case
00:05:41file he is accused of three very important murders, the names
00:05:44are heavy, that is, the murder of
00:05:48Skafouros, the murder of Kosmopoulos, the murder of
00:05:51Roumbetis, these were people who in the Greek Mafia their
00:05:54footprint was very big. No one believed that
00:05:58these people would be in the
00:06:01sights of the Russian mafia's weapons. This
00:06:05development is considered very important. He is expected to be
00:06:08extradited to Greece. The remaining issue regarding
00:06:12the Russian-speaking Mafia is another person
00:06:15who also declares himself an expatriate. Last
00:06:19week, the Hellenic Police officially released his photo and details
00:06:23by order of the prosecutor. This person is the first hitman, he is the
00:06:26main executor of the Russian-speaking Mafia
00:06:29in Greece and in all likelihood he has fled to a foreign
00:06:33country, perhaps to Ukraine or some other country
00:06:37there in the East.
00:06:40Mr. Theodosis, let's help Mr. Theodosis
00:06:44and the colleagues above. Mr. Rikas, yes, it
00:06:48is an arrest
00:06:50which is in
00:06:53absolute cooperation between the Greek and the German authorities.
00:06:57It is an answer to all those who
00:07:00have at times said that the Greek
00:07:04police do not arrest the perpetrators. They
00:07:07do arrest them, they bring them to justice, a person
00:07:11who was an executor and has been involved in many
00:07:14cases of murder, but also other illegal activities by
00:07:17the so-called Greek mafia who were involved in tobacco, illegal tobacco,
00:07:20fuel smuggling and other illegal activities. These
00:07:24procedures continue, no matter where someone goes or leaves our country,
00:07:28international arrest warrants are immediately issued. We have
00:07:31absolute cooperation with the police of other
00:07:35countries. And this comes up in the field, in inverted commas,
00:07:39we also saw it in the case of Marfing and here
00:07:43now this means that
00:07:47no one should do anything, no one thinks that they
00:07:50will get away with it, they will leave and the investigation for them
00:07:53will stop. We expect him to come
00:07:56here to be tried. It is, as Mr. Panou said,
00:08:00he is one of the big hitmen, one of those who have been involved in
00:08:04many contracts to kill. This
00:08:07system, this circuit,
00:08:10is very intricate and
00:08:14every day we, as the police, hit it where we need to,
00:08:18so that we do not have phenomena of
00:08:20taking everyone's fate into their own
00:08:24hands, nor do we have phenomena of murders, as we have recorded in the
00:08:28past, which are cruel murders of people
00:08:30from the underworld who usually circulate. But
00:08:33this also requires patience. The organized
00:08:37crime division does serious work and all these people will be held
00:08:40accountable sooner or later, we believe.
00:08:43Because every person who is arrested, with their testimony, brings
00:08:47elements which help in the continuation of
00:08:50the investigation. Let's have one last sentence, Theodosis, because I was
00:08:53violently interrupted by technology.
00:08:57Yes, that's what I wanted to say too, what Mr. Rigas said,
00:09:01that every such arrest seems to unlock
00:09:05another big box, just to visualize it, which leads closer and closer to the
00:09:08leadership of the Russian-speaking mafia in Greece.
00:09:11Besides, the alleged leader, who has been living in
00:09:15Dubai for many years, if I'm not
00:09:18mistaken, was arrested there by the authorities
00:09:22a few days ago. There was an international arrest warrant
00:09:25from two or three countries, because not only we are seeking the extradition of
00:09:29this particular person, but also Russia
00:09:33and Georgia, and it seems that Ukraine will also enter the game
00:09:36regarding his extradition. This alone shows
00:09:40how much this
00:09:43Russian-speaking mafia has spread from
00:09:46the steppes of Ukraine to Thessaloniki and Athens and to
00:09:49Dubai. In fact, let's thank Mr.
00:09:53Rikas. Thank you very much. Let's also thank the master
00:09:57of police reporting, Mr. Panou. Thank you
00:10:00very much.
00:10:04And let's go to a short commercial break. We will return, Chrysoula,
00:10:07with a lot of news and
00:10:10of course the minister
00:10:17from whom we expect to receive very pleasant news, I will predict.
00:10:21The factory, he cannot,
00:21:14you preparing for us then? We have
00:21:17two quite big news that people
00:21:21have been waiting for a long time.
00:21:23What do you have for the personal assistant? Because the messages on the radio
00:21:27and I understand why, because a ministerial decision was just issued
00:21:31that we are expanding the personal assistant, we are increasing
00:21:34the salaries of personal assistants. We are increasing
00:21:37salaries in the evaluation committees that judge how
00:21:41people with disabilities, how much time they need to have their personal
00:21:44assistant. And
00:21:4624/8, Monday, 24th
00:21:53that is, three Mondays from today the platform opens
00:21:58so that people can apply. So, let me interrupt you a little for those who
00:22:00just started, on August 24th, Monday,
00:22:04August 24th, the platform opens for applications for the
00:22:07personal assistant, which is one of the
00:22:11programs that have helped many people, they have helped a lot.
00:22:15Until today, we have 1500 people, 1,500 of our fellow citizens who
00:22:18use and have chosen their own personal assistant to leave
00:22:22home, to go to work, to go to university, to
00:22:26have a person who allows them to be autonomous with
00:22:29equal participation in society, like all of us who may
00:22:33not have a disability now, who remain in the program. Very good
00:22:37question and you are right to say it, because we are often
00:22:41asked in the ministry, all those who have a personal
00:22:44assistant today do not need to do anything until
00:22:48December 31st 2026. They continue with their
00:22:52personal assistant and after January 1st
00:22:552027 they just need to make a responsible
00:22:58statement that they need him and continue with him.
00:23:02So, all those who have a personal assistant today continue with
00:23:06him. With our new ministerial decision, their personal
00:23:09assistant will receive some more money, because we also
00:23:13understand that there is inflation and therefore we need to
00:23:16adjust the state salaries according to the needs.
00:23:21On the 24th of this month, Monday, the
00:23:24platform opens again for applications. And let me say here that
00:23:27what perimeter do you estimate this will have? You can, we will have
00:23:31at least as many more in the first phase when the
00:23:34platform opens. We keep the 1,500 people who have their
00:23:37personal assistant with a higher salary for the people
00:23:41who are personal assistants and at least as many more
00:23:45of our fellow citizens will acquire their own personal assistant. And let me say
00:23:49here why it is important that we sat down and
00:23:53listened carefully to the disability organizations, ESAmea, people with
00:23:55disabilities, civil society, and we
00:23:58parametrized it so that we make it easier for people with disabilities.
00:24:02That is, they told us that
00:24:05we understand that it may not be
00:24:08correct or it may not be the European practice for the
00:24:12parent to be the personal assistant, because it is
00:24:14important for the recipient of the personal assistant to
00:24:18be independent. However, and not
00:24:21to be often trapped, people with disabilities told us, in the choices,
00:24:25for example, of their parent, who surely knows them
00:24:28better. On the other hand, in small islands, in small mountainous
00:24:32villages, isn't it a shame to be entitled to a personal assistant, but not to
00:24:36find anyone? So we changed the program and in
00:24:40mountainous villages and on islands with a population of less than
00:24:425,000 euros, less than 5,000 people,
00:24:46if you have a personal assistant and you are
00:24:49eligible for this program, you can also hire
00:24:52a personal assistant who is a first-degree relative. Respectively,
00:24:56to cure it, to cure it, to cure
00:25:00it. Respectively and significantly, we gave some scoring, that is, I remember
00:25:04some cases came to our office and they told us, we
00:25:08don't have our personal assistant, but we have two people in the
00:25:12household with disabilities, or we had a case in
00:25:15Trikala with three people with disabilities in the household. Shouldn't
00:25:19we have a prioritization and
00:25:22the state should see that in this great
00:25:25need, an even greater need is a household
00:25:28with three people with disabilities? So he should be the first to get the personal
00:25:32assistant. So we have given a scoring again,
00:25:35listening to the disability movement and people with disabilities, to adapt it
00:25:39to their needs and their daily lives. Of course,
00:25:43importantly, I kept the date, you said August 24th, another important
00:25:47date that we need to keep, we have three Mondays. So
00:25:51we started with the third and last
00:25:54Monday of the month, I think, if not.
00:25:57August 24th, the platform opens for the personal assistant
00:26:00and this Monday that is coming up,
00:26:03August 10th, the provisional results for the
00:26:07nursery schools are released. The platform opened on August 5th,
00:26:10on the 10th of this month the provisional
00:26:14results are released. Let me remind you of the big reform that we
00:26:18did again because we listened to the people. For
00:26:21large families, we did not set income criteria this year. It is the first
00:26:24time that we changed the system and for large families
00:26:28to support families with many children who have
00:26:31different and greater needs than we do
00:26:35with one child, we do not set any
00:26:38income limits, that is, if you have four children or more,
00:26:42whatever your income is, the father's, the mother's and
00:26:45both together gross, there are no income limits to get
00:26:49a voucher for nursery schools. Monday the 10th of the month
00:26:52the provisional results are released,
00:26:55from the 11th to the 13th families have the opportunity to
00:26:59appeal, and then on the 17th of the month. I think
00:27:02earlier than ever before, the final results are also released
00:27:06so that families have the voucher in their hands.
00:27:09I remind you, we removed the income limits for large
00:27:12families and we have increased them for
00:27:15families with one, two children and three, that is, from
00:27:18€32,000 it is €35,000 for families
00:27:21with one or two children and from
00:27:24€34,000 it is €37,000
00:27:28for families with three children and then, as we said, without an income
00:27:31limit. For large families, so on the 17th of the month
00:27:35they have the voucher in their hands, they can go to a private daycare, they can go to
00:27:38a municipal daycare, to the daycare they want and
00:27:42if they don't find a daycare, because usually for
00:27:44babies there is a shortage that we recognize, neighborhood
00:27:48nannies, we are here for families and
00:27:52for families with babies up to 2.5 years old,
00:27:56from 6 months to 2.5, from
00:27:596 months to 2.5 years old they can... and
00:28:02enter the neighborhood nannies program, we already
00:28:06have 1,200 agreements, that is,
00:28:091,200, 1,200 nannies and
00:28:13mothers have signed agreements, we have
00:28:165,500 mothers, 2,500
00:28:19nannies in this program and already 1,200
00:28:23have started working and receive this €500. So
00:28:26this year, you commit that there will be no complaints or criticism, mainly from the
00:28:30opposition, because I just saw Mr.
00:28:35And I see Mr. Pappas, our colleague, is coming, with whom we had a substantial
00:28:39discussion now on the bill for the personal assistant. Criticism
00:28:42is welcome because through criticism we also move forward. The issue
00:28:46is for criticism to be constructive, to be effective, and to
00:28:49be based on evidence and truth, so that it's
00:28:52not just smoke without fire. So no child will be left out
00:28:56of a crèche or, in any case, a family will have all the
00:29:00opportunities to be able to make it happen.
00:29:10There are some places where they may not have a spot in a
00:29:13crèche. Why? Because
00:29:17until recently, the woman might have wanted to stay at home, or the grandmother
00:29:21might have helped, who today might be working. So not that many places
00:29:24were created in crèches, and now
00:29:27it's difficult for someone to find a property to build a crèche, because you say
00:29:31that a crèche must have an outdoor area for children to play, so it can't be on the
00:29:355th or 6th floor. So it's difficult today in urban centers to
00:29:39build new crèches, so
00:29:42until we build with the program of subsidized places for
00:29:46private individuals and municipalities for crèches, we created neighborhood nannies
00:29:49so that mothers can safely and
00:29:53confidently give our children, our babies
00:29:57up to 2.5 years old, to a nanny, often the
00:30:01nanny grandmother, our mother, or our mother-in-law, so that we
00:30:04can have our children safely, we can go back to our
00:30:08work, and either the nanny grandmother, or the nanny
00:30:11we have met and trusted, receives
00:30:15these €500, which is a significant
00:30:18income for her. Now, your ministry is involved
00:30:20in addressing another
00:30:23important issue, which is housing. It is one
00:30:27of the main challenges, Ms. Michailidou. I would like
00:30:30you to give us a brief overview.
00:30:34How is the 'renovate and rent' program going, and should we expect something from there as well?
00:30:37There is a great need, and it is a need of every family, I
00:30:41would say, almost regardless of income. That is, both the more financially
00:30:44vulnerable families and middle-income
00:30:47families, especially three out of ten who do not have their
00:30:51own home, face great difficulty with
00:30:54housing. We launched another program after the success of
00:30:58'My Home One' and 'My Home Two'.