Expensive fuel, tax increases and the collapse of consumer spending by the average Greek have driven marine transport companies to request from the Ministry of Merchant Marine a cut in lines at the beginning of autumn.

The police believe that at least two of them participated in the bloody bank robbery on the island of Paros.

Twenty people obtained the money from October 2009 until the end of 2011. Their names were not disclosed, but the deputies from SYRIZA, who required the information, had specified the names of world-famous persons like the economist Joseph Stiglitz and architect Jose Eusebio.

Greek fire department spokesman Nikos Tsogas said that the four fires on the island of Zakynthos had started around 2:25 am on Saturday, when the fire on the island of Chios broke out. The fire department has issued today a ban on entering the forest areas of the country after sunset.