I think that the high crime rate is caused by pandemic - people are going crazy. As for harsher sentences for felons - I agree, put them in cells and throw away the key!
Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind... I was shocked when I heard the news, I had passed by the area he lived in 2-3 days prior to his murder. A little while ago, the only thing you would hear from the media was covid. Now it's covid, mixed with murders and robberies and executions.
Indeed. Up until a few weeks ago, the hospitals in Athens were flooded by covid patients, some of whom had to be intubated in simple rooms and hallways, as opposed to the ICU. At some point, a patient, who was sharing a room with an intubated 70 year old man, got bothered by the sound of the monitors and the ventilator, and after repeated attempts to switch them off, just straight up removed his tube and killed him. If I remember well he had a history of bipolar disorder, but pre-pandemic his behavior was normal.
Wow I have no words
Any violent crime is horrible but the US has a much higher crime rate than Greece.
I wanted to like your post but then you called Sky News and BBC fake news.
Perhaps the neighbors? There were houses in the area, including an adjacent one (it would be interesting to hear what its owners have to say, if they heard anything etc). But you're right, if I passed by the area at 4-6 am in the morning and saw a lone man just standing or lurking near a house (especially if I was local and knew he had no reason to be there) i'd be VERY suspicious of him. It doesn't make a lot of sense, it's not like they feared a friend or a relative could pass by that early in the morning and stumble upon them.
Reports differ, I've read others which say the dog was hung in the stairwell, which from a video I've seen seems to be just behind the door, in a sort of turret, at the rear of the house. I watched an investigator entering that door and immediately start to ascend up some stairs.
