Τρίτη 5 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

Woman, 80: pension €150, electricity debt €200, no power 6 months… in Athens

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An 80-year-old granny have lived for 6 months without electricity when Greek Public Power Company (DEH) cut the power to her home due to an outstanding debt of 200 euro.

Her pension is just 150 euro, the woman told reporters of the civic movement “I don’t pay” and an activists group that illegally re-connected the power.  An elderly living in modern Middle Ages in Patissia district of Athens, an area considered to be almost downtown.

Underlining that with her thin income she was unable to pay her debt to PPC, the woman explained how she lived in her one-bedroom home for a long period of time: No fridge, no heating, no shower, no light at night.