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A 92-year-old bed-ridden and oxygen-dependent granny with dementia was rushed to the hospital on Friday after Greece’s Public Power Company cut the electricity supply due to a dept of 500 euros thus depriving her of the most  essential source that was keeping her alive. Speaking to Open TV on Monday …

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An elderly woman was caught in a big supermarket chain in Athens to have stolen food items worth some 40 euros. The store manager called the police, had the granny arrested and filed a lawsuit. Despite pleads by other customers and even police officers as well as a public outcry, …

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Editors of Time magazine picked as the Best of 2021 the heartbreaking photo of a desperate elderly woman with the flames of the wild fires nearing her home in Evia in the background. The picture was taken by photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis for the agency SOOC on August 8, 2021. On …

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Panagiota Ritsopi,  81 years old: An elderly woman in black, screaming in agony as the flames swallow the forest and threaten her home. The woman who became the face of the tragedy in Evia. Her picture taken by Konstantinos Tsakalidis became the symbol of the devastation the fires engraved in …

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A vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been reportedly stolen from a vaccination center in western Thessaloniki on Tuesday morning. The theft was discovered by doctors and nurses at the Evosmos Health Center who noticed that one vial was not in its place. The director of the clinic reported the …

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Police officers in Lamia, central Greece, fined an 80-year-old granny with 300 euros for “unnecessary movement” during the lockdown restrictions. The fine is a slap in the face of the ethos of a whole society as it comes just two days after the corona-party with the Prime Minister and an …

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The oldest Greek, a granny of 117 years old, received the vaccine against the Covid-19 on Wednesday just to be able to hug her children again. Mrs Eleftheria is a resident at a care home for elderly in Nea Ionia suburb of western Athens. Visits by family members have been …

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A 90-year-old granny was evicted from a home in Agios Dimitrios suburb of south Athens due to unpaid rent. She landed on the streets together with her grandson and her little dog, wearing only her robe. The three spent two days on the street, because the lady did not want …

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The oldest person in Greece has turned 114. Granny Katerina Karnarou from Krestena in Westen Greece claims to be the second oldest person in the world, after 116-year-old Japanese Kane Tanaka According to all official documents available like ID number, Farmer’s Fund OGA, Social Security number, granny Katerina could claim …

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Greek police has arrested an 82-year-old granny for selling greens without a vendor’s license at the open market in Katerini, West Macedonia. The woman was fined with 200 euros, for selling six kilos of wild greens she had collected from the fields. Total value of the “goods sold illegally” was …

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90-year-old Suzanna Iliadi was fined 200 euros for selling her handmade bootees without a vendor’s license in Thessaloniki. The amount is much to high for the woman who receives no pension. Despite the public outcry over her arrest last week, authorities most probably thought to create an example and also …

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“I will never sell my bootees again,” says the 90-year-old granny that spent twelve in a police station in Thessaloniki for selling her handmade garment without vendor’s license. Days after the arrest that triggered an outage in the Greek society, the woman is still in shock. Video: granny at police …

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A 90-year-old woman has been arrested and kept at police station for 12 hours after she was found to sell handmade bootees without a vendor’s license. The arrest has triggered an outrage with the woman’s daughter to denounce that the granny did not even receive water during the nightmare hours …

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Fearing that her house would collapse due to erosion, a granny abandoned her home in a village in Crete and started to walk in the rugged mountainous area, between rocks, boulders, shrubs, mud, landslides and water streams. Her only aid was a crutch and a make-shift wooden stick. Granny Irene …

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Maritsa Mavropoulou does not live on the island of Lesvos anymore. One of the three grannies, who became symbol of the Greek compassion and kindness with refugees, passed away at the age of 89. It was October 2015, when the picture of the three elderly Greek women feeding a refugee …

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Police arrested a 73-year-old granny after she threw a fire work in the wrong direction. The woman threw a fire work not in the air but into the house of one neighbor thus setting a fire. Police was quick and arrested the woman a little later. She was arrested at …

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Finally. The granny that ruined Greece with invading taxes and almost ruined the eurozone as well has been caught. And fined. A juicy fine for a granny in central Greece who decided to sell vegetables in the open market of Trikala in Central Greece without permission. Tax inspectors in Greece …

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The Greek Finance Ministry has a new hobby: to chase grannies for debts to the state or the insurance funds. Just days after police arrested a 90-year-old Alzheimer’s patient for a debt to the tax office in Athens, another granny, 79, found herself in the detention cell in Chalkida, in …

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How much courage does a decent citizen need to cross the line and through over board the code of law? Apparently, a citizen needs lots of courage, significant shortfalls and a huge portion of despair. Financial shortage and health problems were the motives for a  70-year-old granny to turn into a robber. Armed …

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A grandmother, resident of Paphos in Cyrpus, had recently developed a habit: every Friday, she would go to a bank branch and withdraw all her savings. On Monday, she would bring it back. After this happened on several weekends, the bank employees could not resist and asked the granny why she …

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