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And while the police and judiciary are shifting responsibilities, the municipality reported that the amount of damages exceeds one million. "We have damage as we have never had before. In December 2008 there were no traffic lights torn up. This time they did it. They pulled out transformers of the power supply company and the municipality from the sidewalks. This time they pulled out railings and pillars from the streets," said the Deputy Mayor of Athens, Andreas Varelas, who is responsible for cleanliness. Forty tons of marble, screens of shafts and metal railings were broken off. He pointed out that a group of youths had tried to capture even the city hall, but the staff thwarted their intentions.
 
Shopkeepers in the most commercial streets in the centre of Athens estimated the damage caused to them to over 40 million. The bill includes theft of goods, damage to buildings and equipment. According to the industrialists union, fourty-five shops were burned. Serious damage was caused to seventeen banks, four bookshops, five shopping centres, seventy apparel and footwear shops and twenty-nine buildings of different companies. They say most of the destroyed facilities will not reopen in the serious financial situation anyway, which will add several hundred Greeks to the numerous ranks of unemployed.