#Zambounis

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This week's newsletter from AthensLive is out:

* An MD had a stroke due to burn-out. She is not the exception 

* The Greek Mafia strikes again 

* Greek navy officers resign en masse to avoid being sent to the Red Sea

A doctor goes for her shift and will leave the hospital walking with a stick. She suffered a stroke, which she attributes to overworking due to understaffing. Understaffing seems to be also behind an elderly hospital patient left lying on the floor until his visiting grandson discovered him. Plus, a new report suggests the two biggest cancer hospitals in the country are collapsing.

The Greek Mafia strikes again by killing one of their own with some 80+ bullets at a fuel station on a central street in Athens. Perhaps it’s time for you to visit the city and geta a taste of the Far West in the (European?) Near East.

18 Greek Navy officers resigned to avoid being sent to the Red Sea. It was not about politics. It was about money: they were called to risk their lives for 85 euros net per day.

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A mob-style murder at a petrol station in southern Athens has shone a light on the brutality of the Greek mafia.

A manhunt is underway for the killers of crime boss Vangelis Zambounis, who was gunned down earlier this week.

More than 90 rounds from a Kalashnikov rifle were fired at Zambounis, considered a powerful figure in the Greek criminal underworld.

He was alleged to have led an extortion ring and to have been involved in cigarette and fuel smuggling.

In CCTV video circulated hours after the killing in the early hours of Sunday, a man presumed to be Zambounis is seen getting into an armoured BMW parked outside a petrol station which he owned in the Neos Kosmos area of Athens.

Another vehicle then pulls up behind the BMW. Police later established that it was a Lexus with fake licence plates stolen in Italy months ago.

Two men jump out. One, clad in black and sporting a balaclava, approaches the BMW and fires an AK-47 assault rifle at the driver's window at close range, pausing only to reload.

The gunman then pulls a handgun out of his jacket, opens the car door and shoots the occupant once more, while a second man also fires several Kalashnikov rounds into the vehicle from the other side. Both then drive off in the Lexus.

The burnt-out getaway car was later found by police on the outskirts of Athens.

The viciousness of the killing has generated considerable attention in Greece - not least because it was captured on CCTV and shown on Greek TV soon afterwards. Two police officers were arrested the next day for breaching official confidentiality and leaking the footage to the media.

Greek reports are rife with speculation over the motives for Mr Zambounis's murder.

One theory is that it was ordered in retaliation for the June 2023 killing of mafia rival Vassilis Roubetis. Another theory pins the killing on ongoing tensions between domestic smugglers of tobacco products and foreign mobsters who import cheap cigarettes from Ukraine.

Local media also reported that a Kalashnikov rifle was found in the boot of Mr Zambounis's car, and that he had a pistol in his belt holster.

He is known to have survived a 2018 murder attempt, when his would-be killer attempted to fire into Zambounis's car but his weapon malfunctioned.

According to Greek daily Kathimerini, more than 20 contract killings have been committed since 2017 in Greece among gangs involved in extortion and other criminal activities.

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Greek mafia boss killed in hail of bullets

BBCBy Laura Gozzi January 16, 2024 A mob-style murder at a petrol station in southern Athens has shone a light on the brutality of the Greek mafia. A manhunt is underway for the killers of crime boss Vangelis Zambounis, who was gunned down earlier this week. More than 90 rounds from a Kalashnikov rifle were fired at Zambounis, considered a powerful figure in the Greek criminal underworld.He was…