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00:00:00at their lowest point since the beginning of official records in
00:00:041880, essentially disrupting
00:00:07supply chains, increasing shipping costs
00:00:11and forcing companies to also reduce their production.
00:00:15A similar situation is presented by the Po River in
00:00:19Italy. We are talking about the largest river in
00:00:22Italy. The drought alert level has been set at this
00:00:26point on the map as high, with ecosystems, but also agricultural. It is
00:00:30terrible,
00:00:33rivers are disappearing, drought is spreading, casting its
00:00:42Italy and Spain is escalating, due to immigration.
00:00:46Madrid, Maria Kapiri, imposes border controls
00:00:50for travelers arriving from Italy,
00:00:53responding to similar measures taken by Rome after
00:00:57the massive migration flows to Ceuta. The
00:01:00diplomatic crisis, Marco, between Italy and Spain
00:01:04continues. The Spanish authorities also imposed
00:01:07border controls on all travelers coming
00:01:11from Italy starting today, early morning Greek time,
00:01:14and will be in effect for a whole month until September 7th. The
00:01:18Sanchez government had asked Meloni to reinstate the
00:01:22Schengen agreement, which has been suspended until at least August 15th.
00:01:25it does not succumb to blackmail,
00:01:29while border controls, citing
00:01:32fears that undocumented migrants could cross the Strait of Gibraltar
00:01:36and exploit the Schengen area
00:01:39without passports, in order to continue their journey to
00:01:43Italy and other countries of the European Union. However, the
00:01:47Spanish authorities and the European Commission assured that
00:01:50none of the people who arrived in Ceuta have
00:01:54crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. Thank you
00:01:57very much, Maria, new geopolitical data. The
00:02:01signing of the joint defense agreement between Turkey, Saudi
00:02:05Arabia, and Pakistan is creating a new geopolitical reality, which
00:02:08provides for mutual assistance in case of an attack, in
00:02:12one of the most significant strategic realignments in the powder keg of the
00:02:16East.
00:02:21A nuclear power, Pakistan, the second largest
00:02:25army in NATO, Turkey, and oil-rich Saudi
00:02:28Arabia. They write in the MCA common defense agreement
00:02:32inspired by Article 5 of
00:02:35NATO.
00:02:38Well, I mean, it has very resemblance to NATO article five in the sense that it spells
00:02:41out that attack on one member is attack on all members, so in
00:02:45this regard, the is has the semblance to NATO's
00:02:48article five, but we need to see this
00:02:52how it is going to be operationalized when one
00:02:55of this party faces attack.
00:02:59The
00:03:19to come to the aid of another one if attacked and Saudi Arabia is being attacked from both sides,
00:03:23from Iranian back militias in Iraq and Iranian back
00:03:26Houthis in Yemen. So the test of this.
00:04:00still remains indispensable for many and region actors,
00:04:03but US is also seen as unreliable and
00:04:06unpredictable. All those three countries are allies of the United States, but
00:04:10Saudi Arabia is historically dependent on the US for a lot of its
00:04:14protection and its support. And so for the Saudis to now sign this
00:04:18agreement really speaks to as it faces real
00:04:21hostilities from Yemen's Houthis and also
00:04:24warnings from Iran that this kind of pact is not going to protect them,
00:04:28instead its policies.
00:04:31With, it is, it is really new, it is really new and I think
00:04:35that the first, the first observation one
00:04:38makes is that these countries, and I refer not so much to
00:04:42Turkey, but mainly to Saudi Arabia and
00:04:45Pakistan, feel the need to
00:04:49create something. Why? Why,
00:04:52mainly, because they believe that the United States is not
00:04:55a reliable partner, it is not the guarantor of
00:04:58regional stability.
00:05:00Which was until recently in the background of the agreement of the major
00:05:04Sunni powers in the region, also the
00:05:07goal of limiting the influence of Shiite Iran,
00:05:11while in the foreground... come the possible complications for Israel. From
00:05:15Israel's perspective, this is a very worrying
00:05:18development. It adds a military dimension to a
00:05:22political front that has shown a consistent anti-Israel
00:05:25stance. It is also worrying as both Saudi
00:05:28Arabia and Turkey may be considering the nuclear
00:05:32issue and have much to gain from close defense
00:05:35cooperation with Pakistan. And the details remain to be seen, with the only
00:05:39data so far being that the security architecture in the...
00:05:42region is diversifying, as its players, instead of
00:05:45seeking, as they traditionally did, external security
00:05:49guarantees, are fortifying themselves by choosing to
00:05:52form alliances among themselves.
00:05:54Athens is weighing the tripartite defense agreement, which
00:05:58remains defensively and diplomatically fortified, with the
00:06:02opposition criticizing the government's handling of foreign
00:06:06policy.
00:06:08Athens is watching the developments from the signing of a defense
00:06:12agreement and mutual assistance between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and
00:06:16Pakistan with coolness, given the support it provides to Riyadh with
00:06:19a Greek Patriot battery.
00:06:22The government estimates that the country is defensively and diplomatically fortified,
00:06:26so as not to worry about the new alliance in the Middle
00:06:29East, while the opposition accuses it of wrong strategy in foreign
00:06:32policy. Any country that has relations with
00:06:36Greece does not mean it cannot have relations with Turkey and vice versa.
00:06:40They are not enemies and friends. Everything is a continuous
00:06:43effort and a continuous diplomatic intervention. At this moment
00:06:47Greece is very strong both diplomatically and
00:06:49defensively. These developments strengthen Turkey
00:06:53geopolitically and essentially change the balance of power between Turkey
00:06:57and Greece for the worse. We must be concerned as a country to have
00:07:01a different national strategy. A strategy with depth is needed. This government
00:07:04does not have this. That is why we need another government, more
00:07:08determined, more dynamic, that understands that the country must be
00:07:12more... extroverted. Harsh criticism regarding the Patriots in
00:07:15Saudi Arabia is also exercised by the other opposition parties.
00:07:19Here and now, the return of the battery from Saudi
00:07:22Arabia, the frigate from the Red Sea, as well as all Greek armed
00:07:26forces that are outside its borders. When a country
00:07:28signs a military agreement with your enemy, your only move to
00:07:32save your dignity is to immediately withdraw the Patriots from its
00:07:36territory. If you do not do so immediately, you are either a fool
00:07:40or a traitor. They said.
00:07:47Arabia, are now followed by a magnificent void from
00:07:51the Saudi leadership, which is signing strategic
00:07:54agreements with Turkey. In this light, information from the
00:07:58Ministry of Defense indicates that the stay of the Greek artillery battery in
00:08:02Saudi Arabia will be re-examined every month and not every year,
00:08:05as it is. The same sources claim that this was a
00:08:09proposal made in March 2026 by the Minister.
00:08:14in full alignment with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and about which the Saudi Arabian embassy in
00:08:18Athens was informed.
00:08:21In the Middle East, the negotiating landscape
00:08:24Athina Papakosta remains extremely unclear around the
00:08:28status of the Strait of Hormuz with new reports from the
00:08:32American side about an impending agreement. Iran, through its
00:08:35Minister of Foreign Affairs, stresses that Tehran and Muscat are
00:08:39very close to reaching an agreement for a new
00:08:42shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. According to
00:08:46Abbas Araghchi, Iran and Oman are discussing a temporary
00:08:49shipping route, while also resolving technical and legal issues concerning
00:08:53a permanent route. At the same time, the Revolutionary Guards clarify that the
00:08:57opening of the Strait of Hormuz is not related to the negotiations between
00:09:01Iran and Oman, but to the acceptance of Iran's terms by
00:09:04the United States. The US, however, reportedly insists. An American
00:09:08official stresses that the United States expects an agreement
00:09:11soon between Iran and Oman to restore
00:09:15the smooth flow of oil transport. On its part,
00:09:18Oman states that talks with Iran on the future management of the Strait of
00:09:22Hormuz are positive, while also warning of attacks targeting
00:09:25shipping in this strategically important
00:09:28sea lane. Earlier today, it was announced that a tanker
00:09:32was hit by an unknown missile 18
00:09:35nautical miles east of Khasab in Oman, resulting in a
00:09:38fire on board. The ship and crew are safe.
00:09:42In a serious development in the Black Sea, Athina, according
00:09:45to Bloomberg, Turkey imposes restrictions
00:09:49on the movement of merchant ships to the Russian port of
00:09:52Novorossiysk, one of the most important hubs for oil
00:09:55and grain exports in the Black Sea. As Bloomberg reports, the
00:09:59Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety has informed several
00:10:02ships bound for Novorossiysk that it is currently not issuing permits for their
00:10:06passage or that more time is required
00:10:10to examine the relevant requests. Sources also
00:10:13state that some ships have been notified that the
00:10:16restrictions also apply to routes to Ukraine. As emphasized, the
00:10:20restrictions do not appear to constitute a general
00:10:23suspension of commercial shipping through the Dardanelles. Ship movement
00:10:27tracking data also collected by Bloomberg showed that ships bound for
00:10:30Turkish or Bulgarian ports continued to move north
00:10:34through the straits unimpeded. So far, Turkish authorities have not
00:10:38provided an official explanation for
00:10:45where it was targeted by a fierce Russian
00:10:48attack, resulting in deaths and massive destruction. Russian
00:10:52forces also struck Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea, with
00:10:56all eyes on Zelensky's first visit to Serbia.
00:10:59Another night of Russian
00:11:03attacks with missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles
00:11:07on the outskirts of Kyiv.
00:11:10Four people lost their lives, including a child, while dozens of
00:11:14buildings were engulfed in
00:11:17flames. The residents of Kyiv are once
00:11:20again facing scenes of destruction, as Moscow
00:11:24exploits Ukraine's weakened
00:11:27air defense and tightens its grip around the
00:11:29capital. The Russian Ministry of Defense
00:11:33claims that its forces hit three Ukrainian ships in the Black
00:11:37Sea, which, it stated, were carrying
00:11:40ammunition.
00:11:42And all this while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
00:11:45is making his first official visit to
00:11:48Serbia after the start of the war. The discussion agenda
00:11:52between Zelensky and his Serbian counterpart. Issues of
00:11:57economy, security, but also Serbia's accession path
00:12:01to the European Union. And we will be glad if
00:12:04Serbia's path to the European Union accelerates. We all in
00:12:08Europe must cooperate with each
00:12:10other,
00:12:15Zelensky's visit to Serbia is of paramount
00:12:18importance. As Belgrade maintains
00:12:21close ties with Russia. Serbs have sent
00:12:24humanitarian aid to Ukraine, but have
00:12:26rejected imposing sanctions on
00:12:30Moscow.
00:12:32Alarm in Bulgaria, a NATO member state, raised
00:12:36Maria Kapiri, a serious incident with a drone that entered the
00:12:39country and exploded. This morning, Marco Drown
00:12:43entered Bulgarian airspace from its border with
00:12:46Romania and exploded near the village of Kartnam. The
00:12:50incident, which caused no damage or injuries, took
00:12:54place very close to the Trans-Balkan natural gas pipeline, which
00:12:57is international and extends from Turkey to Ukraine,
00:13:01while particular concern is caused by the fact that the unmanned
00:13:05aerial vehicle was not detected earlier by either the
00:13:08Bulgarian or the Romanian authorities. The Prime Minister of
00:13:11Bulgaria stated that the security of the country's strategic
00:13:14facilities will be strengthened, while earlier the country's Ministry of Defense
00:13:18announced that the drone was probably Ukrainian and the
00:13:21incident was an
00:13:27remain high despite a small
00:13:30de-escalation, and what causes outrage among consumers
00:13:34is that when international prices rise, increases at the
00:13:38pump are immediate, while when international prices
00:13:41fall, prices at the pump remain high. Let's look at the
00:13:45paradox. See here, on May 4th, when the international price
00:13:49of oil was $114 a
00:13:51barrel, the average price of unleaded in Greece
00:13:55was 2.08 euros per liter, while yesterday,
00:13:58August 7th, with the international price of oil at
00:14:02$83.5,
00:14:04the average price of unleaded along with the subsidy from
00:14:08refineries, was just under 2 euros, it was
00:14:121.97 euros per liter. Let's
00:14:15watch the report.
00:14:19Holidays with a full tank, but also
00:14:22a heavy receipt. I filled it with 20 euros. Now I need
00:14:26at least 30 for half, if I fill it, it's double. I will
00:14:30put some liters, I will do my
00:14:33job, meaning around 60-70, how much will it be, because it's
00:14:36about 2 euros and next week we will see
00:14:39and as travel increases for summer holidays,
00:14:43the more the cost of fuel weighs on the
00:14:46family budget. Those who came to fill their tanks
00:14:50here in Attica, just before leaving for their summer holidays, will see the
00:14:54price of regular unleaded forming at
00:14:571.94 and diesel at
00:15:001.89 euros per liter. A
00:15:02two-day trip to Preveza and the
00:15:05fares, tickets and fuel have all
00:15:08increased. A few holidays, a few days to
00:15:11rest, the first thing you will look at is how far it is so you can
00:15:15calculate. The closer, the better. More days, in
00:15:19Attica the average price of regular unleaded is
00:15:221.93 euros per liter with the
00:15:2610 cent subsidy from refineries. In Paros, it reaches
00:15:292.25 euros, in Rhodes 2.16 and
00:15:33in Lefkada 2.047 euros per
00:15:36liter. It's just gasoline, everything is at record highs. For
00:15:40diesel, the situation remains equally pressing. In
00:15:43Attica, it's set at 1.92 euros per
00:15:46liter, despite the 15 cent subsidy. In
00:15:50Paros, diesel reaches 2.20, in Rhodes
00:15:532.070, while in Lefkada, it's
00:15:562.030 euros per liter. A small difference, I don't think
00:15:59it's noticeable. When prices go up, they go up the next day, and when
00:16:03they are supposed to fall, they never fall. And here the
00:16:07question arises. How is it that the price of unleaded is almost the
00:16:10same whether oil is at its zenith at
00:16:13$114 in May or at
00:16:16$83 where it closed the week?
00:16:20The price of Brent crude oil has a small
00:16:23specific weight in the overall depiction of the
00:16:26price of refined products, gasoline and diesel. Other
00:16:30factors that keep the price of refined products high
00:16:33are the euro-dollar exchange rate, the special
00:16:36consumption tax. And VAT is the cost of distribution to the islands and
00:16:40also it is the future contract, that is, for how long
00:16:44the refineries estimate that they can procure the
00:16:47product based on the current geopolitical geostrategic
00:16:50situation, we will be going down, slowly,
00:16:54we cannot make leaps, because the invoices show us the
00:16:57way, so based on invoices accordingly
00:17:00we proceed and somehow the international price may
00:17:03decrease, but until the drop reaches the pump through
00:17:07many factors.
00:17:10Athens is taking an important step towards the further development of
00:17:13tourism activity and investments, while
00:17:17simultaneously protecting the natural environment,
00:17:21through the signing of the special spatial plan for
00:17:24tourism. Let's go with the help of Elena Chelbantzoglou
00:17:27to see in detail, Elena, what the spatial plan and its
00:17:31basic pillars provide. A new Marco landscape for tourism
00:17:35investments in the country is shaped by the new
00:17:38tourism, which was approved by a joint ministerial decision of the Ministers of
00:17:42Environment and Energy and Tourism. The key element is that
00:17:45now the entire country is divided into five categories
00:17:48according to the intensity of tourism activity. Initially, in
00:17:52category A, which concerns areas of controlled development, the
00:17:56strictest rules apply. This is followed by developed,
00:17:59developing, and areas of early development, while there is also
00:18:03a fifth category, that of special development
00:18:05enhancement. Let's look at one of the most significant changes:
00:18:09the terms for new hotels outside urban planning
00:18:12are changing, meaning the required land size is significantly increasing
00:18:16in the most burdened areas. Even more interesting is the
00:18:20regulation for islands, where a special regime is introduced, with the exception of
00:18:24Crete and Evia. There, for the first time, a progressive system is introduced
00:18:27for the capacity of tourist
00:18:30accommodations. At the same time, the islands are also divided into three
00:18:33groups according to their size, with different restrictions on
00:18:37tourism development. The philosophy of the new Marco framework
00:18:41is essentially more development where there is
00:18:44space and stricter rules where tourism has already
00:18:48reached its limits, with the aim of simultaneously protecting
00:19:08Aegean, prompted by the signing of the special
00:19:11spatial plan for tourism by the Ministries of Environment and
00:19:15Tourism. The plan concerns the further development
00:19:19of tourism activity and the attraction of investments with simultaneous
00:19:22priority to the protection of the natural and cultural environment, but Turkey
00:19:26attempts to instrumentalize it regarding the Aegean and its unacceptable claims.
00:19:29It will have no legal consequences for Turkey within
00:19:33the context of the interconnected issues of the Aegean between the two
00:19:36countries, taking into account certain geographical
00:19:39features, whose sovereignty was not granted to Greece
00:19:42through international treaties. Unilateral actions should be
00:19:45avoided in closed or non-closed seas, such as the Aegean
00:19:49and the Mediterranean. This is not the first time Ankara has reacted to Greek
00:19:53initiatives, reiterating its long-standing positions. It is a repetition of
00:19:56Turkey's long-standing positions, which we have seen before. The question
00:20:00is how things will develop and how Turkey will
00:20:04react to other Greek initiatives, not the right one.
00:20:07in the spatial framework for tourism, as much as in,
00:20:10in, in, when the implementation of the
00:20:14electrical interconnection with Cyprus begins. Through this
00:20:17policy, essentially
00:20:19foreign policy is also being made,
00:20:23it is not just about defining our maritime zones, even with
00:20:27the spatial planning that concerns our islands, even
00:20:31with the marine parks. Similar
00:20:35reactions were seen from Turkey after the announcement.
00:20:41The political mercury remains high in political confrontation,
00:20:45triggered by the decision of the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court
00:20:48to keep the wiretapping case in the archives, with the government and
00:20:52opposition exchanging fierce accusations. The decision of the
00:20:56Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Evangelos Bakelas, to
00:20:59reject the reopening of the
00:21:02wiretapping case from the archives is developing
00:21:05into a new field of political confrontation. The requests had been submitted, among others, by Antonis
00:21:09Samaras and Christos Spirtzis. Harilaos Trikoupis lashes out
00:21:13at the government and argues that critical questions surrounding
00:21:17the case remain unanswered.
00:21:52of the prosecutorial body, of the judicial body.
00:21:56The criticism from the opposition was also harsh. The
00:21:59provocative insistence of justice serves
00:22:02the government multiple times in its attempt to cover up
00:22:05its responsibilities for this dirty scandal. The scandal that
00:22:09started from the Maximos Mansion is being attempted to be buried
00:22:12once again, but democracy is not
00:22:16archived. The attempt to cover up the scandal continues with the
00:22:20cooperation of the government and the Supreme Court. The country must
00:22:23breathe and no matter how many cogs they move,
00:22:26in the end, truth, light, and justice will
00:22:29prevail. In the end, we will have oxygen and
00:22:33life. Citizens are watching and judging this unacceptable stance
00:22:37of senior justice officials who stubbornly refuse to investigate
00:22:40such an important case with political ramifications.
00:22:44We cannot judge the decisions of justice differently.
00:22:48In a statement, the Union of Prosecutors of Greece expresses
00:22:52its intense concern about the use of characterizations that, as it
00:22:55states, exceed the limits of harsh criticism of a prosecutorial
00:22:59judgment and the limits of permissible criticism when not based
00:23:03on specific new factual evidence and legal
00:23:06arguments. Tragedy just now in
00:23:10Paros, a four-year-old child was found dead in a designated
00:23:13swimming pool. According to the information we have so far,
00:23:16Marco, the child was found by two women who
00:23:20saw it in the pool. Immediately, an employee of the
00:23:24establishment entered the water, who retrieved the child and began to provide first
00:23:28aid. An EKAV ambulance arrived very quickly at the scene.
00:23:32The rescuers made superhuman efforts to
00:23:35revive the four-year-old child. Unfortunately, they did not succeed.
00:23:38What the authorities are now investigating are the exact circumstances under which the
00:23:42child was found in the pool. According to the same information, the
00:23:46parents were in the beach bar area, but they were not at that
00:23:50moment near the child. At the same time, the owner of the
00:23:53business appears to have been registered as a lifeguard at the establishment. The police have
00:23:57proceeded with arrests, including the owner of the beach bar and
00:24:01the child's parents, while the investigation is in full swing
00:24:04to clarify what exactly happened and whether all
00:24:08prescribed safety measures were observed. Marco. Thank you,
00:24:11Mary. Significant developments are taking place at the prosecutorial
00:24:14level, Panagiotis Spyropoulos, regarding the
00:24:17network of the wind farm,
00:24:20from where the fire started in Viotia and
00:24:23spread to Western Attica. The autopsy report,
00:24:26Marco, at the location Mavros Spytharis, at ground zero, that is, of the devastating fire.
00:24:30demonstrates in detail the deficiencies, construction errors
00:24:33and other defects in the power supply of the wind farm which caused the
00:24:37sparks that started the fire. After the
00:24:39arrests of the owner of the wind farm, as well as the 50-year-old
00:24:43mayor who signed the electricity distribution study,
00:24:46and the 79-year-old installer of the overhead network. The
00:24:50decentralized administration of Thessaly, Greece, following a relevant document from the
00:24:54investigator of Thiva, applied the provision of suspending the license
00:24:58of the wind farm indefinitely in order to ensure the integrity of the area until
00:25:02all necessary investigative actions are completed. Essentially, the
00:25:05park stopped its operation. Meanwhile, the investigator
00:25:09sent two provisions to the fire department's crime fighting
00:25:12division. The first for the conduct of an autopsy on the
00:25:15remaining overhead electricity distribution network at the wind farm,
00:25:19as the same failures that caused the large fire may
00:25:22also exist in another part of the network. The second provision concerns the
00:25:26guarding of the remaining overhead electricity installation network in order
00:25:30to exclude the possibility of corrective changes to it,
00:25:33i.e., alteration of evidence in the case. It is noted that the wind
00:25:36farm has three other sections of overhead network 3 km long,
00:25:40which, however, are located within a radius of 40
00:25:43km. Panagiotis, do you have photographic
00:25:46evidence for the start of the fire in Karystos?
00:25:50Yes, it is about the fire that broke out in Kolyampada of Karystos at noon on August
00:25:536. The executives of the crime fighting division of the fire department
00:25:56immediately located findings, as we saw before, for the start of the
00:26:00fire, which were captured in photographs. That we are presenting. The
00:26:03fire broke out from an electric generator that we saw in the
00:26:07previous photograph, which was used by a 63-year-old woman
00:26:10who was arrested for the power supply of a storage area that
00:26:19the start of the fire in Corinthia? Yes, these are the ones
00:26:23we see in front of our screens, for yesterday's fire that broke out at noon in Stefani
00:26:27of Corinthia. It quickly spread, even causing an
00:26:30emergency message 112. The competent authorities found that it started
00:26:33from a photovoltaic park in the area. It started from an
00:26:37inverter, the one we see on our screens, a
00:26:40photovoltaic one from a short circuit in an area that, in fact,
00:26:43had not been cleaned according to the existing legislation. The managers stated
00:26:47that there was a problem with that particular inverter in the previous days and they
00:26:50had deactivated it. However, it seems that it was still working.
00:26:54The manager and the maintenance and operation subcontractor of the
00:26:57park were arrested. Thank you Panagiotis. New
00:27:00shocking documents from the dramatic
00:27:04sea rescue operation of hundreds
00:27:07of people from the fiery nightmare in Viotia have come to light. They were safely
00:27:11evacuated thanks to the heroic
00:27:14efforts of firefighters, coastguards, and
00:27:29in Viotia on the afternoon of last Friday. And the floating
00:27:33means of the fire department approach Agios Vasilios to
00:27:36evacuate the people who are trapped on the beach. First into
00:27:40battle is the fast boat Rafnar, while a little later
00:27:43the fireboat Mouzakitis arrives. Thick smoke from the
00:27:47fiery front has covered the settlement and citizens find refuge on the
00:27:50pier. Families, elderly people and people with disabilities,
00:27:54following the instructions of the authorities, await the sea evacuation
00:27:57operation. The desperate efforts for the
00:28:00extrication are captured.
00:28:07Private boats transport citizens to the fire department's
00:28:10vessels.
00:28:16With the sea rough due to the stormy winds, one by one
00:28:19people of all ages carefully board the floating
00:28:23means in order to be moved to a safe
00:28:25location.
00:28:29A few hours after the operation in Agios Vasilios, in the early hours of Saturday,
00:28:33the flames reached Porto Germeno. The fire department's
00:28:36speedboat evacuated a family of four and an
00:28:40elderly woman from the beach.
00:28:43From the pier of Agios Vasilios, a total of 254 citizens were rescued,
00:28:46of whom 238
00:28:50were transferred to Livadostrata beach and 16 to the
00:28:53port of Antikyra. In the maritime operations, in addition to the fire department,
00:28:56a coastguard vessel, two tugboats, as well as five private
00:29:00vessels assisted.
00:29:05A 49-year-old was arrested in Paleo Faliro, Panagiotis Spyropoulos,
00:29:07in the context of the investigations into the Russian-speaking
00:29:11Mafia. Yes, Markos, the 49-year-old expatriate from Krasnodar
00:29:14in Russia, who was arrested by executives of the extortion investigation department in
00:29:18Paleo 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
00:29:21Russian-speaking Mafia. An arrest warrant was also pending against him for his
00:29:25participation in the criminal organization. This particular group consisted of a quartet
00:29:28of burly men from Menidi, Markos, who, at Edik's command, indiscriminately
00:29:32beat, extorted, and took money from people with great
00:29:36financial standing. And they collected very large
00:29:39amounts. Yes, Markos, among other things, 10 days after the
00:29:43murder of the so-called Uncle Joe in Skourta Viotias in
00:29:462022, the dogs extorted 1
00:29:50million from the owner of a well-known coffee chain,
00:29:52placed improvised explosive devices in two stores of a 59-year-old known
00:29:56owner of a chain of pawn shops as part
00:29:59of extortion for payment to a Turkish partner for the export of gold
00:30:03to Turkey, something that the businessman had even refused.
00:30:06And their armament is terrifying. According to
00:30:10the relevant complaint, the 49-year-old and the other Pitbulls
00:30:13had obtained military weapons, even bazookas, from Russia to carry out their
00:30:16plans. The 49-year-old was arrested along with a
00:30:2037-year-old, Markos, while moving in a luxury car. The
00:30:2337-year-old, in fact, belonged to the same hardened group, had been arrested in the spring of 2022
00:30:27but was imprisoned after 8 months. The 49-year-old had been wanted by the authorities
00:30:30since 2003 for extortions and bodily harm. However, in
00:30:342010 he participated in a conspiracy that committed robberies in banks and
00:30:38in fact in one of them in Piraeus, customers were held hostage
00:30:42for several hours with the use of hand grenades and weapons. However, a European arrest
00:30:45warrant from the Cypriot authorities was also pending against him, accused of
00:30:49premeditated murder. From what it seems, he was imprisoned and continued his activities
00:30:52with Edik's gang.
00:30:56φυλακίστηκε και συνέχισε τη δράση του με τη συμμορία του έτικ.