The death of the 17-year-old Roma in Viotia on November 11, 2023, after a police chase, was followed by Roma youths rioting across the country. Every time some Roma are arrested for some criminal act, discussions and comments begin about the criminality of this sensitive social group.
Roma make up the vast majority of Greek citizens involved in criminal groups (71%)
Proto Thema looked at data on how many Roma are actually involved in criminal activities. Related, extremely interesting information is available in a report by the police about serious and organised crime in our country in 2021.
In the report, data confirms those who believe that the Roma make up the vast majority of Greeks involved in criminal groups (71%). This percentage becomes even higher (84%) in thefts and burglaries.
Another very interesting element is the composition of the criminal groups of foreigners, which are also confirmed here by those who write that they come mainly from Albania, former USSR countries (especially Georgia), Algeria and Pakistan.
Let’s look at more evidence from this revealing report.
In 2021, 157 criminal groups were dismantled in our country, comprising 1,081 members.
Most of these groups (104) had as their main criminal activity thefts – break-ins, 30-wheeler thefts and 23 robberies. 65 % of these groups, a little more than 100, were “domestic” and 83% homogeneous.
The majority of the domestic groups, 71% of them (more than 70 in other words), consisted of Roma (in the police report, they are listed as ROMA).
A small number of these groups (16%) displayed multidimensional criminal activity, while a percentage of 10% was also involved in activities other than those mentioned at the beginning (drug trafficking, counterfeiting, etc.).
In 15% of the total, there was money laundering from criminal activity.
The members of the criminal groups came, in order of number, from the following countries: Greece, Albania, Georgia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Romania, Syria, Palestine, Bulgaria, Iraq, Kosovo, Morocco, Libya, Serbia, Bangladesh, Armenia, India, Iran, Kuwait, Turkey and Tunisia…
Thefts and burglaries: Roma, Albanians and Georgians
Even more interesting is the origin of the members of the criminal groups that carried out thefts and burglaries in 2021. Of the 104 thefts and burglaries, 63%, about 65, were committed by groups of Greek citizens, about 28 by groups of foreigners, and the remaining 11 by mixed criminal groups (Greeks and foreigners).
Among the Greek criminal groups that committed thefts and burglaries in 2021, those that are overwhelmingly made up of Roma (rate of 84%) hold a dominant position. Some 87/104 criminal groups that committed thefts and burglaries in 2021 were composed of Roma.
The police states in its relevant report: “These (Roma) groups are mainly semi-hierarchical, and their members have, for the most part, kinship (and/or friendship) relations with each other”.
Of course, this is also clearly seen from the presentation of Roma who have committed criminal offences. Most of them have the same last name or other common elements.
Foreign criminal groups are dominated by those made up of Georgians (39%). Their main feature is that their members are exclusively Georgian.
Albanian criminal groups follow at 33%. These are either purely Albanian or “mixed”, with criminals also coming from other countries.
Far away, in 3rd place, are Algerian criminal groups (8%). These are either pure or mixed. Finally, in 4th place, with a percentage of 6%, are the Pakistani criminal groups.
If we add the above figures, even with a dose of arbitrariness, as there are also mixed criminal groups, 86% of the thefts and burglaries committed by foreigners in our country are done by Georgians, Albanians, Algerians and Pakistanis.
The action of the criminal groups was against mainly local, as the largest percentage of them (82%) operated at the prefecture or district level and only 15% nationally.
Where and how thefts and break-ins take place
As is understandable, thefts and break-ins take place in homes, shops and public transport, while the figures of the police also concern vehicle thefts.
Finally, the targeting of bank ATMs by criminal groups continued in 2021. Six of them were dislocated. They broke into ATMs with the “PLOFKRAAK” method and used dynamite or special equipment, mainly in the morning hours.
The criminals enter the houses through unsecured balconies or windows, breaking down doors, pretending to be tax officials, elevator maintainers, fruit and carpet merchants, etc.
In the stores, criminals operate mainly at night – after midnight by cutting or punching the security rolls, even by breaking their windows, etc. On public transport and in crowded places, the members of the criminal groups took advantage of the overcrowding or even caused it, while very often they occupied their victims so that some of their accomplices could remove money, documents, etc.
How much are the “profits” from the criminal activity in Greece?
In graph 23, you see the estimated profits of criminal groups by criminal activity for the years 2018-2021. These exceed 15 million euros.
This is probably a much smaller amount than the real one. The audacity of the criminals is abysmal as many of them upload on social media photos and videos of the lavish life they lead with the money they stole, often using violence, from innocent citizens…
Of course, sometimes this overexposure leads the police to their arrest…
Epilogue
The police report on serious and organised crime in Greece in 2021 is a total of 114 pages and refers to the other forms of crime. You can find it online and the corresponding reports from previous years.
However, with today’s article and some other earlier ones about the foreign prisoners in Greece and the criminality of foreigners in our country, we solve the questions of many readers.
Maybe some people will talk about racism, etc. However, we do not write personal opinions, but we quote official figures from the police, which, for reasons unknown to us, have not received the publicity they should…
READ MORE: Crime explosion in Greece – 55% of prisoners are migrants.
In Ikaria honey is used to treat everything from wounds to stomach issues, influenza, and the common cold. Ikarians start their day with a simple spoonful of raw local honey, which has a high antioxidant level. This may reduce inflammation and also contains amino acids and vitamin C which are known to speed the growth of healthy tissue in the body.
This famous Greek island is a part of ‘Blue Zones’ a name given to 5 places in the world- Ikaria, Sardinia in Italy, Okinawa of Japan, Nicoya of Costa Rica and Loma Linda of California, USA, whose inhabitants surpass the life expectancy and reach over the age of 90 years.
A new television report by CBS has taken a close look at why Ikarian honey could be one of the main keys as to why the locals here keep healthy and strong well into old age.
“Up the winding mountain roads of this isolated isle, you’re likely to notice brightly-painted boxes dotting the landscape. And what’s happening inside those boxes is generating some buzz: Bees busy making a rare honey that locals believe is one of the secrets to a long life,” notes CBS.
Ikarian beekeeper Andoni Karimalis explained to CBS correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti that people on the island “have been eating the honey for generations, to keep healthy and strong well into old age.”
At work in her weaving studio, 109-year-old Yiayia Ioanna from Ikaria agrees there is something special about it.
So does 87-year-old-beekeeper Giorgos Stenos. He eats the honey “every single day.”
For centuries humans have valued honey for its medicinal properties. And in Ikaria, known in ancient times as the “healing island,” the honey is different from that found on most supermarket shelves.
As a result, the pollen and nectar collected by the bees are free of chemicals and pesticides normally found in commercial or private farming. And unlike most honey sold in the other parts of the world, Ikarian honey is also unheated, unfiltered, and unpasteurized – all processes which can destroy the natural vitamins and minerals.
Although this has been one of Ikaria’s best-kept secrets, after the CBS report aired live on American television, there has been a huge response with people all over the world wanting to get their hands on some on this Ikarian gem!
Christina Onassis (Χριστίνα Ωνάση) was the only daughter of self-made Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis and Athina Livanos. Her maternal grandfather was Stavros Livanos, founder of the Livanos shipping empire.
Christina Onassis was born on December 11, 1950, in New York City. Heiress and businesswoman, she was devoted to working at her father’s headquarters in Monaco, ultimately proving to have a smart business sense. After her brother’s and father’s death, she was running the entire family empire.
Christina and her brother were raised and educated in Greece, France and London. Her parents split after her father’s affair with famed Greek opera singer Maria Callas. He went on to wed famous former first lady Jackie Kennedy, otherwise known as ‘Jackie O’ in 1968. It is reported that Christina however never really warmed to her new stepmother.
While raised with an abundance of wealth, it is also said that Christina grew up without much attention from either of her parents and was often looked after by servants. She was diagnosed with clinical depression at the age of 30. Onassis also became addicted to prescribed sleeping pills and was reportedly hospitalised for overdosing in the 1970s.
As public interest in her family grew, Christina became increasingly determined to make her own waves. She defied her father, as Aristotle wished for her to wed Peter Goulandris, a young man who also belonged to a Greek shipping clan. Instead, in 1971 she married millionaire American builder Joseph Bolker when she was only 20 years old, with Bolker 27 years her senior. Her father deeply disapproved of the match, cutting off his daughter’s trust fund.
Unfortunately, her success was overshadowed by lingering pain and tumult. She ended up marrying 4 times and within a 29-month period, Onassis lost her entire immediate family.
Her brother, Alexander, died in a plane crash in Athens in 1973. His death devastated the family. Her mother died of a suspected drug overdose in 1974, leaving Onassis her $77 million estate. Following Alexander’s death, her father’s health began to deteriorate, and he died in March 1975.
After losing her father, Christina renounced her U.S. citizenship and donated the American portion of her holdings in her father’s company to the American Hospital of Paris. She also managed to gain control over much of her father’s huge shipping empire and took reins of the organisation, with half of his estate used to establish the Alexander Onassis Foundation.
Over time, Christina tried to find happiness. In 1975 she married Alexander Andreadis, a member of a prominent Greek family, but their union was over the following year.
In 1978 she wed Russian shipping agent Sergei Kauzov, with the couple splitting the following year. Throughout the years, she also struggled with her weight, she had issues with binge eating and cola addiction. There were reports of her abusing amphetamines too.
In 1984, Onassis wed French businessman Thierry Roussel. The following year, the couple welcomed a daughter, Athina, who was born in Paris. Onassis’ marriage soon broke up, however, because of Roussel’s infidelity.
According to many reports, Onassis was considering starting a new life for herself and her daughter in Argentina, visiting friends who lived near Buenos Aires in November of 1988. On November 19, Onassis was found dead in her friend’s home. Though her last moments remain a mystery, her death was attributed to a heart attack brought on by years of drug abuse.
She was just 37 years old.
A private, Greek Orthodox funeral was held for Onassis on 20 November at a chapel on the Onassis-owned island of Skorpios, whereafter she was buried in the Onassis family plot in the Island of Skorpios Cemetery, alongside her father and brother.
Onassis is survived by her daughter, Athina, who was raised with her father, stepmother and three step-siblings in Switzerland and France. Christina willed her fortune, worth an estimated $250 million at the time of her death, to her only child.
Athina later battled her father for control of her inheritance, which has been estimated to be as much as $2.4 billion. Athina gained control of half of the estate on her 18th birthday. Unfortunately, she also split from her husband, a Brazilian horseman known as ‘Doda’ after he was caught cheating by her security team at the couple’s Florida home in June of 2016.
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