Kifisia: Roma steal car wipers and bargain with drivers to sell them again

They have become a scourge throughout Greece. ‘strikes’ means houses, businesses and cars without even caring whether they have ‘viewers’ or whether security cameras record them. Their audacity is so great that most of the Roma gangs who have “weakness” in the robberies, approach their victims with nerve without even hiding their faces. Serious problems confront New Kifisia where residents see live the windscreen wipers of their cars becoming “smoking”. Resident of the area reported a gang stealing the wipers and then haggling to the car drivers to sell them back. “At 10 a.m. a group of 8-10 people appear in a well-known chain oven. They go to the parking lot, break the windscreen wipers of parked vehicles and then go to the driver to sell them at a good price,” said the resident. In Xanthi the situation is equally tragic because of the camp in the area. At this point more than 10,000 Roma remain. Rena Athanasiadis, a businessman in Xanthi, spoke this morning (18.09.2024) at MEGA and reported that OTE’s car, engine and cable robberies are countless. Besides, in the camp there are drugs, prostitution, and many weapons that have made the area avagable. “ Many catch them, go to the prosecutor but leave them out, ” he publicly denounced. Mrs. Maria reported to MEGA that she was robbed by two Roma children, with the ball trick that fell into the yard. “It was the third time they tried to steal me, the nerve this time, what to tell you. It was 11 in the morning, people passed by. The bell rings, I go out to my kitchen door and say, ‘ What do you want? ‘ He tells me “my ball fell,” I didn’t see anything, he says it’s in the corner”. “I went down the stairs to catch the ball. Another guy who was on the wall hiding jumped into my house. Is this life, to want to shop and not know whether to come back with the bag or how to enter your home?” he said.