Overflooding with disasters

Dear reader,

This is our weekly round-up from Greece. 

The wildfires in Evros were finally put off on Monday after 17 consecutive days. But then, Storm ‘Daniel ’came, causing deadly floods in the Thessaly Plain, Greece’s ‘bread basket.’

Whole villages disappeared under the water. People were trying to hang onto rooftops and high spots, hoping help would come. The total death toll was unknown when writing, as the water had not receded. 

Finally, a horrific crime happened in Piraeus port. Two sailormen pushed a 36-year-old man rushing to catch the boat from the catapult to the sea, just like that. Then, the ship just left. The victim drowned. He was a mentally disabled person.

An unthinkable crime

“A man was drowned in his effort to catch the ship.”

This was how the first reports described what happened at night in Piraeus Port on Tuesday, 5 September.

It would soon be proved that reality was even more monstrous.

A shocking video (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) surfaced on social media showing a man running to catch the ship. The man managed to walk on the catapult while the boat was leaving - the catapult was still down, touching the port. Two crew members on the catapult pushed the man violently out of the ship while another was watching. As a result, the man fell into the sea the moment the boat was leaving.