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Serres: 30 Households Without Electricity – “Sorry, Mistake!” says PPC
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society, Uncategorized
Owners of thirty households, business places and agricultural premises in Neochori, Serres were shocked on Tuesday morning to see Public Power Company units to go around the village streets and cut off the electricity. The local DEH office had in fact given order to cut the power in 60 power subscribers due to unpaid power bills or unpaid emergency property taxes. Children and elderly were left in the cold and in the darkness and thus with the thermometer showing -10 degrees Celsius. Neochori near Serres is located in the north-eastern Greece, currently heavily affected form the ice weather front.
The residents called the local media and the local media published the case that soon reached the national media.
Speaking to Skai TVon Wednesday morning, Manolis Emmanoulides, director of PPC office in Serres, said that the orders to cut off electricity in households were “given by mistake”. DEH is expected to reconnect the power to the freezing households.
In a later news magazine of Skai TV, some residents claimed they had paid indeed the first installment of the emergency property tax.
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In ANT1 TV the major of the village said that “they cut the power even to families with five children.”
Proto Thema contacted a DEH official who threw the ball in the court of the private company assigned to cut off the electricity, as the Genop-DEH unionists refuse to proceed to these cuts. “It looks as if the private company thought all the cut-off orders were referring to busniess places” the DEH official told to the newspaper.
Public Power Company (DEH) had given orders not to cut off the elcectricity these days due to the extreme weather conditions.
I heard there was heavy snow on the phone lines connecting DEH headquarters in Athens with the local office in Serres. while the phone line with the private company was totally frozen.
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Can you imagine a more stupid move than to levy an emergency property tax (thank you, Brussels) tied to the electricity bill (and backdated, too) in winter, when many people struggle to pay just for the electricity they need?
I paid an extra €135 on my last DEH bill, which was anyway higher than my summer bills. How are families expected to find that extra money?
Many families are trying to survive on 700 – 800 a month. It’s madness. Ok, have a property tax if you must. But to want to collect, retrospectively, without warning, one year’s worth of tax in two electricity bills in the middle of winter demonstrates how out of touch with reality the politicians are.
But then, of course, the politicians are in a position where an extra few hundred on their DEH bill is peanuts. A couple of tankfuls of benzine for the Mercedes. Where’s the problem….?
You thank Brussels. But you should thank our brilliant Greek politicians. Brussels has called this tie to the electricity illegal because it is contrary to EU-law. Now it is waiting for the first Greek citizen to get to Strasbourg.
Same goes for all those retrospective taxation. I told a tax lawyer outside Greece about it and he just refused to believe me as it is against everything justice and law should stand for. It’s like buying a computer in 2008 and now having to pay an extra 20% on the price you paid then for each year you owed that computer. Oh yes, and you paid your VAT already. So let’s put a nice levy on that too. Why not? Just for fun. Let’s all laugh!!!
LOOOL, so fun, so early in the morning. Add info: we bought the computer in 1983 I think ?