Veroniki Bacharidi-Krikoni · April, 2012

Latest posts by Veroniki Bacharidi-Krikoni from April, 2012

Egypt: The Other Homeland

  18 April 2012

Al Jazeera World broadcasts a small film entitled “Egypt:The Other Homeland”, narrating the history of the once thriving Greek community in Egypt through personal interviews and archive material. At the...

Greece: Abbot Released Over Ecclesiastical Real-Estate Scandal

  10 April 2012

Mixed online reactions have met the news that Elder Ephraim, abbot of Vatopedi monastery on Greece's Mount Athos, who was implicated in a scandal arranging land swaps between Vatopedi and the state, has been released from jail after only four months of detention. The scandal cost the Greek government millions of euros.

Greece: #Police_Victims

  9 April 2012

Following the serious injury of photojournalist Marios Lolos at Thursday evening's demonstrations in Athens, Greece, in memory of 77-year-old #Dimitris_Christoulas who committed suicide in Syntagma Square on April 4, Greek netizens have been...

Greece: Public Suicide of 77 Year Old Man in Athens Square

  4 April 2012

All Greece was shocked this morning by the news that Dimitris Christoulas, aged 77, shot himself in the head around 9 am, in full view of passersby in Syntagma Square, Athens, across from the Parliament building. Before the shot, he reportedly shouted that he "didn't want to leave any debts to his children".