Tag Archives: Trikala

What do people do when garbage bins are full and the local council has no money to collect it? Fundraising! Residents of Farkadonas village by Trikala in Central Greece decided to raise funds in order to fill up the tanks of municipality garbage collectors and get rid of the smelly …

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A footage from inside the Trikala prison shows each detail of a prison break staged by a notorious Greek criminal and his Albanian partner. With the help of a helicopter and a rope ladder the two inmates were supposed to escape. But many things went wrong. The helicopter appears while …

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A night long standoff between police, prisoners and their accomplices took place Friday in Trikala prison in central Greece. The battle with automatic weapons, kalashnikov and grenades left two guards injured and eleven inmates …missing. The incident started at 20:30 Friday night with unknown number of gunmen attacking the prison and …

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We read about them here and there. A child in Central Greece or a child in Peloponnese. Children that go to school and faint of starvation. Latest example, the case of a second-grade student who fainted on his way to school in Patras. When the teachers asked the boy, if he …

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“Madam Soula”, Soula Alevridou from Larissa made it to New York Times. For a not so simple reason: the former prostitute and owner of two luxury brothels in Central Greece sponsored a local soccer team to help it cope with the economic crisis.   With a donation of 1,200 euro, …

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Members of the Greek Parliament like Michalis Tamilos from Trikala, Central Greece, must be a shining exception, “one in three hundred”, so to speak. He seems so much devoted to the promotion of the interests of his voters, that he considers as waste of time the participation to several parliamentary committees – …

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The majority of schools in the prefecture of Trikala, Central Greece, are not able to supply heating oil even though temperatures have dropped to 10 degrees Celsius. Teachers are planning to complain at the local government even though it’s clear that there is no money available to cover such needs: neither …

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Football players of Paliopyrgos have a new look: black shorts and t-shirts decorated with a big cross in purple. Purple are also the letters with the name and the address of the new sponsor of Paliopyrgos FC:  Christos Panagiotou, owner of a business offering funeral services. In Greece of economic crisis …

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An appalling spectacle was awaiting this morning the municipality workers of Trikala, when they went to clean the river bank of Lithaios. They found the bodies of the four little ducks living in a fenced area and swimming in the river, without a sign of life. The abused bodies of …

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Tara is a female dog dumped in a shelter. The frightened beauty was attacked by other dogs and almost bitten to death. The volunteers from Trikala Animal Welfare Society “Argos” managed to take her out, take her to the vet and give her back a descent life – even with …

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How weird and twisted can Greece be? In the municipality of Trikala, central Greece, a young guy asked his salary for three months work. However it turned out the guy was working without contract at all! Most probably, he had got a ‘verbal contract’ by a smart municipality official to …

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