Humiliated Greece eyes Byzantine pivot as crisis deepens - Telegraph
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❝For now it is quiet in the working-class Nikaia district of West Athens where a rap-singer was clubbed to death on the streets by militias from the Fascist Golden Dawn party in 2013. Yet it would be unwise to take this for granted.
The municipality had 30 families registered as poor and needy in 2009. This rose to 330 in 2011. It is now 1,350. “They have no money left,” said Michalis Fiorentis, a veteran poverty-fighter for the council.
“The recession finished off the small leather and clothes factories in this quarter. People lost their jobs, their shops, their family insurance, and spiralled into debt, all at once.”