March 23, 2023
animals, FEATURED
An elderly woman was fined with 120,000 euros administrative penalty by the police in Volos for dumping four new born kittens in a garbage bin. She had put them in a tightly closed plastic bag which she threw to the bin near her home on Monday night. The 75-year-old woman …
Read More »
February 9, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elderly couple of expats has been missing in the last two weeks.The couple, David Harrison Robinson, 83 years old, and his wife, Lucretia Robinson, 80 years old, went missing from their home, in the area of Dapia Methonis, Pylos Nestoros in Messinia, south-west Peloponnese. A Silver Alter has been …
Read More »
November 21, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The tragedy on the island of Rhodes, where a caregiver killed an elderly bed-ridden woman took an unexpected turn on Monday afternoons when she told police that she had killed to more elderly she was taking care of and had attempted to also kill her infant child. Monday morning the …
Read More »
August 5, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elderly couple died alone and helpless from heatstroke and starvation in downtown Athens. The tragedy was revealed when neighbors informed the police of a “strong stench” coming form the apartment of the 5th floor of a residential building in Kypseli district of the Greek capital. Forensic report and police …
Read More »
August 4, 2022
Uncategorized
Fragile elderly and vulnerable patients were evacuated partly being carried on the arms of personnel when the fire at the historic Balikli nursing home for Greeks and general hospital broke out in Istanbul early afternoon on Thursday. All 104 patients have been successfully evacuated amid thick smoke, nobody was injured. …
Read More »
July 20, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elderly man committed suicide in east Athens in the early morning hours of Wednesday, when he saw his house engulfed in flames. His body was found by police officers in the morning. The 84-year-old man had ended his life with a gun and his body was found in a …
Read More »
May 8, 2022
Society, Very Mix
With very high speed a car driver in frenzy hit a motorcycle with two elderly passengers on it, dragging one of them 300 meters, leaving the other one on laying injured on the ground. After a while he returned and drove over the second man on the ground, dragged him …
Read More »
March 24, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elderly man in Thessaloniki saw his home being destroyed by a fire in the early morning hours of Thursday. The man, who could not afford heating, was burning papers to warm his hands in the cold March night. Speaking to media after the disaster, the tenant of an apartment …
Read More »
February 25, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
“We are flies, have no worth, the powerful don’t care about us, the people,” says my neighbor Eva, an economic migrant from Ukraine. She has been weeping since Russia launched the military operations on Thursday morning, she is devastated about her family back home, her relatives and friends, the future …
Read More »
February 10, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Police on the island of Crete arrested seven people on Wednesday after investigation into dozens of deaths in a private nursing home in Chania and the horror living conditions of the elderly. Among the arrested are the 43-year-old owner and her mother, 68, two doctors and two nurses as well …
Read More »
December 27, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
Death by heating: Sunday morning thick, black smoke comes out of a two-storey house in Metaxourgeio district of downtown Athens. Parents and children run in panic to escape the flames, neighbors and passersby rush to help until the fire brigades arrive. Hand in hand they take the children out of …
Read More »
July 14, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s deputy Labor minister announced on Wednesday morning that unvaccinated personnel in private nursing homes will be dismissed after the unpaid furlough. Speaking to Open TV on Wednesday morning, Deputy Labor and Social Affairs Minister Domna Michailidou has stressed that “those not wishing to get vaccinated after some time will …
Read More »
July 14, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A coronavirus outbreak with 8 infections in a nursing home in Volos has set health authorities on alert. Tested positive to Covid-19 are reportedly four elderly and four members of personnel. According to local media, the four elderly were all fully vaccinated against Covid-19 since a couple of months. Of …
Read More »
July 13, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias warned on Tuesday that all staff in care homes and welfare facilities for people with special needs must be vaccinated by August 16 and threatened the facilities with have fines up to 200,000 euros facilities if found hosting unvaccinated guests. The last part creates a …
Read More »
May 13, 2021
Very Mix
An elderly man was stabbed and robbed after he complained to a group of youngsters about a so-called corona-party that was taking place in a popular square in Nea Smyrni suburb of south Athens. The 60-year-old victim was transported to the hospital where he received first aid. The incident took …
Read More »
April 25, 2021
FEATURED, Social
Appalling conditions in a nursing home in Chania may have lead to the deaths of 68 to 72 elderly. Excessive use of sedatives and ill-treatment nearing torture. Elderly left to starve, tied in their beds, often beaten by personnel. Filth and negligence and accommodation in the basement for those paying …
Read More »
February 22, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
32 elderly in a nursing home in Athens have been tested positive to Covid-19 and 18 of them have been already transferred to reference hospitals in the Greek capital since Sunday. The cases are among elderly residents and workers in the nursing home in Peristeri suburb of western Athens. The …
Read More »
February 18, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The elderly should go shopping at supermarkets until 08:30 a.m. to reduce the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The proposal came by professor for epidemiology at the Medical School of the University of Athens, Athins Linou on Thursday. The elderly wake up early in the morning anyway, and the supermarkets …
Read More »
January 25, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Alarm sounded in a nursing home in Marousi suburb, northern Athens, on Monday morning when dozens of elderly residents and staff were tested positive to Covid-19. Both residents and staff had received vaccination some ten days ago. Already 12 elderly have been transferred to hospitals due to the seriousness of …
Read More »
December 18, 2020
Social
Police in Thessaloniki has arrested two juveniles for the violent death of a 87-year-old man during a robbery. The 14-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister broke in the man’s house on December 2. They were taken into custody on Friday, Dec 18, after they were reportedly identified from CCTV footage …
Read More »
