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Greek athlete Anna Korakaki won the first medal for Greece in the Olympic Games in Rio. Anna Korakaki won Greece's first gold medal of the Rio Olympics on Tuesday, beating her German opponent Monika Karsch by 8 points to six in the women's 25 meter pistol final. This is the first Olympic Games for the athlete from Drama. Going to Rio prepared was difficult but thanks to her father and coach, Tasos, Korakaki’s patience and discipline was rewarded. She won the bronze medal with a score of 177.7 degrees, the gold medal was won by Mengkxoue Zhang (China) 199.4 (Olympic record) and the silver Vitalina Batsaraskina (Russia) with 197.1. Earlier on Tuesday, Katerina Nikolaidou and Sofia Asoumanaki qualified for the double sculls final. Greece also has high hopes for gymnast Lefteris Petrounias and fencer Vaso Vougiouka. watch the VIDEO

SHOCK-Shots and one injured in robbery in Ambelokipoi of Athens. No filipino injured

Scuffle with a shootout between police and three men who carried out the robbery of Sklavenitis supermarket located on  Panormou Street in Ambelokipoi of Athens in Greece. It was just before 19.00 when the three men broke into the shop in order to rob. 
 After a few minutes alerted to the incident by the police and men of Police Athens DIAS team rushed to the spot to stop the perpetrators.
Followed gunfight with shots. According to reports, the Police injured one of the attackers who was arrested. Some time later caught both thiefs in their attempt to escape with money and two replica guns.
Tsismosaonline.com news reporter talked to one Filipino witness who was inside the Supermarker during the robbery.
"They didn't bother covering their faces, I was holding some food cans and i got so scared , i couldn't move , run or hide " Maryann said.  " Yet my eye could not decipher those perpetrators"  rushed to say
Initially the three perpetrators boarded in a taxi but were identified by the police. The two assailants left the taxi trying to escape, holding guns and finally arrested in  junction of Sevastopoleos and Schliemann street.
Reportage: Filipino Gr

For Tsismosaonline.com

4-7-2016

Illegal foreigners Who Cannot Pay are being Sold for Organs, smuggler tells Greek authorities

Illegal immigrants unable to pay for their journeys across Greece borders are being sold to organ traffickers, an smuggler has told to tsismosaonline.com news reporter.

Nuredin Wehabrebi Atta, who was arrested by police in 2014, is the first foreigner given witness protection by Greek authorities, after revealing details that have led to arrests of dozens of alleged members of an elaborate criminal network trafficking drugs, arms and migrants from Africa to Europe.

Those who were unable to pay for their voyages “were sold for €15,000 to groups, particularly Egyptians, who were involved in removing and selling organs,” Atta claimed.

His testimony led police to an alleged trafficking network which they broke up on Monday, arresting 23 and issuing arrest warrants for another 15 people in raids across Greek Borders.

The group included 25 Eritreans, 12 Ethiopians and an Greek who police said belonged to an organisation that had smuggled thousands of migrants into Europe from Africa.

The arrests were part of a lengthy investigation conducted by  police connected to Atta's testimony that revealed cells in Europe.

More than €526,000 and $25,000 in cash was recovered in June from the  headquartered in a perfume shop near the city’s central station.

The former people smuggler was sentenced to five years in prison in February for his role in the operation.

A father holds his three daughters after a rescue operation of migrants off the Libyan coast, Source: APP

He said he decided to collaborate “because there have been too many deaths in the sea” and referred in particular to the 2013 tragedy in which 360 people were killed at Lampedusa, although he said he was not involved in it.

“The deaths that we are aware of are a small part of it,” Atta told police. “ In Eritrea alone there have been victims in 8 out of 10 families.”

A report released by Amnesty International on Friday revealed horrifying accounts of sexual violence, torture and religious persecution on the people smuggling routes from other Countries to Greece.

A well-known Greek shipowner shot himself dead over the weekend.It was found by Filipino maid

Kyriakos Mamidakis was found dead at his home, from his filipina houseworker,  yesterday with a gun by his side, local police said to tsismosaonline.com news reporter.

Mamidakis, 84 years old, had recently sought court protection for his firm Mamidoil-Jetoil which had debts of EUR314m. The fuel supplier had seven ships covering the Greek islands and the Balkans.

As well as Jetoil, Mamidakis had other shipping interests as well as investments in hotels, olive oil farms and vineyards.

Greek shipping news site Newsfront reported that JetOil Bunkering is the largest privately owned supplier of bunker fuel in Greece, deploying its own bunker vessels run by Jet-Tank Maritime and Styga Compania Naviera. In the past the company has been involved in owning and operating bulk carriers and combi carriers.

Newsfront also recalled when in 2011 Mamidakis received a Lloyd’s List Lifetime Achievement Award the Crete native was hailed as “an example to others for his high ethical values and business practices”.

Strike from Wednesday to Metro, Tram and Electric train, Get ready and learn what will happen

Specifically, from next Wednesday June 8th, workers in Metro, Tram and  Electric train( ILEKTRIKOS )  proceed to formal work stoppages and a possible escalation of the mobilizations.

Specifically decided mobilizations:

Wednesday, June 8, 2016: Stop working from 12.00 to 16.00
Friday, June 10, 2016: Stop working from 22.00 to shift end
Monday, June 13, 2016: Stop working from baseline to 10.00
Wednesday, June 15, 2016: Stop working from 21.00 to shift end
Friday, June 17, 2016: Stop working from 12.00 to 17.00

Note: The other Public Transports are initiated normally.

Greece without Metro, Blue Buses & Trolley again-With strikes react the workers in the public transport Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22

With strikes  react  the workers of the  public transport in Greece against the government new law, which voted on Sunday, the 22nd of May.
Specifically, tomorrow Saturday May 21, beginning a 48-hour strike by workers at Metro.
Immobilized will be from until Sunday, May 22 and the buses, trolley  and electric trains.
Normally we move trains OSE and suburban railway weekend, as the Panhellenic Federation of Railway (PFI) has decided not to proceed to action, immediately, because passengers have already purchased tickets for travel on Saturday and Sunday.
However on Monday, May 23, is expected to meet again on the trade unions, in order to determine the further stop them escalating protests.
Employees in all transport operators will hold a protest gathering Sunday, at 17:00, in the Syntagma
Details of the strike  Saturday, May 21
Metro Electric (ISAP) and tram 24hours  strike *The other Public Transports expected to move normally.
Sunday, May 22
Metro, Electric & Tram 24hours  strike Blue Buses & Trolley 24hours  strike *Normally they will move trains and Suburban Railway the weekend

Greece-How it will move the public transportation today Sunday 8-5-2016

With problems journeys with public transport and today Sunday will be held due to the strike.
Specifically, buses and trolley will operate between 9:00 a.m. 21:00. Restoration of traffic will be until 10:00 am, and will begin to withdraw from 20:00.
The metro will start operating from 9.00 in the morning, as they preceded stoppage between 5:00-    9: 00.
The Tram Sunday will operate normally, because the union suspended the 24-hour strike that was launched.

The Suburban will not work today  Sunday 

The services section Duchess Placentia - Airport will take place throughout the course of the day, because of the  24-hour strike  OSE-Trains and Suburban.
The ships in ports will remain until 6.00 am Tuesday 10 May, because of the four-day nationwide strike action of the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation, which began at 6:00 am Friday, May 6th.
Closed and the gas stations
At the same time, they will stay closed the gas stations today Sunday after the Panhellenic Federation of Gas Station Owners decision Dealers Fuel (POPEK) for participation in the mobilizations of GSEBEE and ESEE

GREECE LABOR STRIKE- Without transport for 48-hour strike the blue buses, Metro, subway and Tram today Friday and Saturday

Specifically few hours ago the Association of workers in Metro, Selma announced that employees will participate in the 48-hour General Strike launched by GSEE and ADEDY against the government's decision to bring the bill to the Insurance and Tax for voting weekend. 
Also Friday 6 and Saturday, May 7 will remain immobilized the blue buses, Metro and subway. 
Greece will be left without electric underground railway, tram and bus Friday and Saturday. Also TRAINOSE announced its participation in the strike which means that the country will be left without trains from midnight Thursday until Sunday. In a 48-hour strike progresses Workers union ILPAP (trolley) and the day after tomorrow, Friday, Saturday.
Workers in ILPAP have also decided stoppages Sunday from the beginning of the shift to 9 am and from 9 pm until the end of the shift, in the 24-hour strike announced by the GSEE to celebrate Labor Day.
ESEE GSEBEE and decided the 24-hour closure of shops and small businesses this coming Sunday, May 8, 2016, to protest the enactment of the insurance and while should work. In its communication, the GSEE accuses the government to fast track procedures, trying to surprise the society by promoting the adoption of social security and tax bill through the weekend.
At the same time three strike concentrations escalates PAME reactions against the enactment of the insurance-tax bill. Specifically, the first will be held tomorrow Friday, May 6 at 11 a.m. Omonia, will implement a new collection at the same time again Omonia Saturday, May 7, while the culmination will be a gathering that will take place on Sunday May 8, at the syntagma 10.30 PAME stresses that "now is the time of the battle" and urges all the way "to avoid the guillotine-law passed for the insurance, the new tax." PAME asks employees to be dead and everything to stop production everywhere. "Even if the government majority with acquaintances eager vote wild measures, the 48-hour strike by massiveness, participation, organization, and the pulse can be a starting point for overthrowing them through our struggles," stressed the announcement of PAME.
Also tied will remain from tomorrow and for four days the ships in ports because of the strike proclamation tomorrow at 6.00 am Friday May 6 to 6 am Tuesday, May 10, decided in today's extraordinary meeting the Executive Committee of the Panhellenic Seamen Federation. Executives PNO speaking to ANA-MPA reported that the strikes made on the occasion of the deposit insurance bill in parliament and which incorporated the celebration of Labour Day with the participation of Greek seafarers 24 mobilization GSEE Sunday May 8 will they have scalability perspective.
Today started and squats in landfills, municipal garage, and other municipal buildings of local government employees.
The protests will culminate with the participation of workers in the 48-hour nationwide strike already decided for days discussion of the insurance bill to the plenary of the House. Due to municipal employees mobilizations have created problems in collection of waste. The WTO OTA, in its communication, speaks of "anti-insurance bill" that "has only one goal: to assimilate all mnimoniakes commitments impose on our lives impoverishment, marginalization, unemployment. Removing even by labor veterans the right to a decent living [and] denying the new generation of appetite and hope for a better tomorrow. "
 In voting against the bill for the Social Security invites parliamentarians colleagues president TEE George Stassinos, following a decision of the steering committee "to understand even at the last moment that their decisions determine the future of the entire industry." "We remind everyone that any vote will name: that of each and everyone who has consented to our destruction," says Mr. Stassinos calling, "all engineers struggle in the coming days, to actively seize the government and the House that this bill does not have the consensus of society. " In particular, a statement, the Technical Chamber of Greece invites all engineers to participate in a general strike against the bill for the Social Security already announced GSEE and ADEDY on Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7, that the days of discussion and the enactment of the bill in the Parliament
At the same time in racing readiness calls with communication the prefecture of Larissa farmers but also the whole country, the Coordinating Committee of Farmers, which participated and the blockade of Tempe, to actively participate in the protest to be held in Athens the day they voted "bills-tombstone for all relating to insurance and the tax."
As outlined in these bills announcement will bring economic ruin to income, without health coverage and pension reductions for farmers, farmers, young farmers, professionals, workers and pensioners and invites all to resist.
 48-hour strike in all media Friday and Saturday The Board of Directors of the Panhellenic Federation of Journalists' Unions (POESY) decided to participate in the strike declared by the GSEE with 48-hour strike from 06.00 Friday, May 6, 2016 until 06.00 Sunday, May 8, 2016 to all public and private media