The house of Giorgos Nikolakopoulos in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica, resembles a fortress. All windows are enclosed with iron railings while on the balcony there is a wild dog barking to everyone. From the day the robbers entered his house, he tries to protect himself in whatever way he can. "Τhe only thing missing is to put a chain and to get hold of the railing" he tells me
It was eight in the afternoon when the elderly man had climbed upstairs where his daughter is staying to keep his two young grandchildren. He heard the dog barking but did pay notice . When he came down, the robbers had entered his house and stole money and gold.
It is not the only house that has been the target of robbers. As the residents have told me lately, robberies have risen dramatically. Mainly because the area has many ways to escape from the National Road.
Dimitris Tsifis has been the victim of robbers 9 times. He placed rolls and alarms, but bandits always find a way to break it.
"We became Chicago," says an elderly woman who doubles in her home and shudders every time she hits the doorphone even if she is a young person who handles brochures.
What they are asking for is more policing
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