Tag Archives: firecrackers

With a week delay, prosecutors have charged eight adult Kazakh nationals who were passengers on the chartered yacht suspected to have started the fire in the forest of the island of Hydra last Friday. The charges are “complicity in arson”. Two minors, aged 14 and 17, who were also on …

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Every Easter the same plague: injuries due to firecrackers and flares and arrests for the same reason. Seven people, among them minors, were injured during the Resurrection ceremony in churches throughout Greece at Holy Saturday midnight. In Chania on the island of Crete, a 15-year-old boy had to have two …

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We all know how loud is the celebration of Jesus Resurrection, Saturday midnight. Everybody who has pets, whether cats or dogs, is aware that the cracking fireworks are a torture for any animal. The situation is much worse for stray dogs and feral cats who have nobody to calm them …

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Every year the same tragedy at Easter time: fire crackers burst in the hands of the people, causing them serious injuries, amputate them and kill them. Two young men lost their lives on Good Friday, when threw the firecracker at electricity cables and were hit by high voltage. The two …

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With visible injuries on his face and his legs US-citizen Chris Presmyk speaks about the traumatic incident of last Saturday. Chris Presmyk, 55, his wife, 50,  and another five people were injured, when some young Greeks threw firecrackers in the middle of the crowd attending the Resurrection ceremony in the …

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An American woman is being hospitalized at the intensive care unit of Venizelion Hospital in Heraklio, Crete,  while her husband, another US-citizen and a Greek are being treated for burn injuries. The three US-citizens, two Cypriots and two Greeks were injured on Saturday night in Santorini, when a makeshift firecracker …

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