Helena Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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So Greeks generally across the country are much more aware of the threats posed by firefighters and what they have to lose.
So everybody from the state apparatus to Greeks collectively on the ground are much more aware of this and have upped their game.
well um tourists of course are among the thousands who have been evacuated forcibly evacuated from crete overnight there are reports emerging this morning that they will be returning to the community the seaside community
of Ayakallini, just outside Rethenon on the northern coast of Crete.
But this is a problem that Greece, as you say, faces every year.
Two years ago, we saw mass evacuations in Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, on the very popular island of Rhodes.
And it is one that Greece has to do, and what it has to take, and what it's doing more and more, and what we're seeing, and we've seen in France, for example, and indeed Spain, is mass evacuations
preventative evacuations of people long before fires hit a region.
That's the only thing state authorities can really do if they're to protect lives.
Yes, Greece is a very popular destination.
It's on track to attract
more than a million tourists this year, and that's in a nation of a third of that number, of barely 10 million.
So it's a very big ask of the state.
They have to be prepared for the great problem that wildfires pose in the summer months.
Well, it's a tragic story, a very rare story.
Usually we hear of tourists dying in accidents in Greece on the roads or at sea, drowning, but never like this, never found, wrapped up in cloth, then dumped in a bin bag and found in a suitcase in a derelict place.
former garage in the heart of Athens.
I've literally just been there.
It really is an abandoned building that has not been in use for the best part of a decade.
Police are not ruling out anything.
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