Athens News Agency: News in English, 01-08-22

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Man charged for Club Med pool drowning to testify on Friday

[02] Four arrested for drugs, illegal weapons possession

[03] Athens Stock Exchange opening: bourse falls as buyers abstain

[01] Man charged for Club Med pool drowning to testify on Friday

A maintenance man charged with manslaughter over the freak drowning of a boy in an Attica hotel pool was granted until Friday to make his statement when he appeared before the Examining Magistrate on Wednesday.

Yiannis Dimarellis, a 43-year-old maintenance employee at the Golden Coast hotel complex in Marathon, had been charged with manslaughter through negligence on Monday.

The victim of the Sunday accident, a seven-year-old French boy, was literally sucked to the bottom of the hotel pool when a plug covering the water-recycling pump came away.

Frantic efforts by other bathers to pull the boy out and turn off the system proved fruitless, witnesses said. The victim, identified as Alex Blin, was transported to a nearby health clinic in a coma and later died.

[02] Four arrested for drugs, illegal weapons possession

Four people were arrested and held for questioning regarding illegal weapons and drugs possession offences on Wednesday, in the seaside resort of Oropos in Attica.

Dimitris Roussos, 37, Nikos Tsabarlis, 43, Christoforos Margonis, 33, and Ioannis Margonis, 39, were arrested in a house along Markopoulos beach in Oropos. Three handguns, one automatic weapon, ammunition, 6,192 grammes of cannabis and 890 grammes of heroin were found in their possession.

The four suspects were taken to Attica police headquarters, where police are investigating their possible connection with other criminal acts.

[03] Athens Stock Exchange opening: bourse falls as buyers abstain

Equities were falling at the opening of trade Wednesday on the Athens Stock Exchange, in a lacklustre session dominated by the absence of buyers. At 10:20 a.m. the general index was down 0.66 percent at 2,669.66 points and turnover was 6 million euro.

Individual sector indices were all moving down, with the biggest losses for the infotech index, down 1.44 per cent.

The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was down 0.55 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was down 0.73 percent, and the FTSE/ASE SMALLCAP index was down 0.57 percent.

Of the stocks moved, 40 were up, 161 were down and 39 were unchanged.

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