On Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 , we start out with a good morning from Despoina Amarantidou, correspondent of ERT in Kozani, who conveys to us the issues that concern the local community, but also winter images from the amazingly beautiful landscapes of Western Macedonia and the upcoming events during the holidays. Next, we broach, once again, the issue of the Tempi Tragedy, a few hours before the protest by the relatives of the victims in Syntagma square. Mr. Pavlos Aslanidis, a member of the association of those affected, who lost his 26-year-old son in the tragic accident-crime, spoke about the criminal mistakes made in the management of both the case and the space, the “foot-dragging” of the Justice system and asked, once again, for ample light to be shed and for those responsible to be punished. Immediately afterwards, we speak with Antonis Antoniadis, a veteran Panathinaikos football player, former President of the Panhellenic Professional Football Players Association (PSAPP) and former president of the Standing Committee for the Fight against Violence, on the occasion of the incidents outside the “Melina Mercouri” Indoor Gymnasium and the serious injury of the 31-year-old police officer, as well as the measures announced, once again, to combat violence in stadiums. He explains that measures have been announced in the past but forgotten and calls on the State to work both in the direction of law enforcement and repression but also in the direction of prevention, starting with education. Antonis Antoniadis is adamant that the term “fan violence” should not be used, as he considers that these phenomena constitute a broader issue of social violence with deeper roots.
In the second hour, we travel outside Athens, starting from Thessaloniki, from where we are joined by Katerina Renieri, ERT3 journalist and hostess of the successful news show “Perimeter”, which, as she revealed to us, is always watched with interest by our expatriates, as they see images and learn news from their villages. Ms. Renieri speaks about the collective work required for the show to take its final shape and her own professional trajectory. From Thessaloniki we “fly” to Mytilene to meet Ms. Myrena Fotiou, the owner of a successful and daring venture that started almost 30 years ago in the village of Papados in the area of Gera and which continues to operate to this day, with hard work and by overcoming obstacles. The reason for the Family’s bookstore is the first of the two (as they then opened a larger one in the city of Mytilene. Ms. Fotiou belongs to an immigrant family in Burundi, Africa. When she was 7.5 years old, her father could not bear living in Africa and returned to his homeland, Greece. After various business ventures, the bookstore came to be what they finally chose to do; it employs people to this day and has been a center of Culture and Knowledge.