Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-07-27

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

CONTENTS

[01] Silent grief for 18-year-old Muslim boy shot in Munich

[02] Parliament passes bill amending customs code

[03] Nobody listening to PM's 'pompous pronouncements,' ND's Koumoutsakos says

[04] Iakovos Kambanellis Theatrical Museum opens on Naxos

[01] Silent grief for 18-year-old Muslim boy shot in Munich

His parents and two siblings escorted him back from Munich to the family's home village in Rodopi, where the teenager had returned each year in the summer.

The funeral was attended by Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis, who offered his condolences to the family and also conveyed the condolences of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Parliament President Nikos Voutsis, who each sent a wreath. Three Rodopi MPs - Moustafa Moustafa, Aichan Karagiousouf and Ilhan Ahmet - also attended, as did the Maronia and Komotini Metropolitan Panteleimon, who offered his condolences to the family in a gesture signalling peaceful religious coexistence and solidarity in a multicultural area, such as Rodopi and Thrace.

The funeral was conducted by Komotini Mufti Chief Secretary, in the presence of Komotini Mufti Metso Tzemali, after which the villagers of Aratos lifted the wooden coffin wrapped int he Muslim 'kefen' and transported it to the village graveyard to be buried.

[02] Parliament passes bill amending customs code

Concluding the debate in Parliament, Alternate Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis noted that the collection of tax revenue was going well and that an automatic spending cuts mechanism will not need to be activated. At the same time, he noted that the government was "not happy and will do the things that we have promised to the Greek people."

In addition to changes to the national customs code, the bill also founded a Coordinating Centre for Combatting Illegal Trade.

[03] Nobody listening to PM's 'pompous pronouncements,' ND's Koumoutsakos says

"Nobody is listening. Nobody believes them. The same is true...for today's announcements about so-called social sensitivity made from the safety of the cabinet meeting," Koumoutsakis added.

If the prime minister wanted to find out what was really happening, he should have direct contact with those on low pensions, the jobless, the farmers, the heads of large families, small business owners and freelance workers and especially young people, who are unable to make ends meet because of his policies and have lost all hope of improving their lives.

[04] Iakovos Kambanellis Theatrical Museum opens on Naxos

The "Theatrical Museum Iakovos Kambanellis" opened its doors to visitors in the Grotta area on Naxos on July 18 and displays the writer's desk, personal effects, documents, portraits, sketches, medals, plaques and other items. Visitors can also examine the writer's works and studies by others about his work, archive interviews with the author and the films that he either directed or wrote scripts for.

Planned activities for the museum include summer workshops for children and teenagers, concerts, book presentations, creative writing workshops and film screenings.

Iakovos Kambanellis was a prominent Greek poet, playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, and novelist, born on the island of Naxos in 1922. As a survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, he wrote the lyrics of the "Mauthausen Trilogy" with music by Mikis Theodorakis. He has also written a book known as Mauthausen describing his experiences from the concentration camp. He authored at least 12 films and he directed two of them. In addition, he was known as a verse writer and for his membership at the board of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece (MIET). Kambanellis died on February 4, 2011 due to complications of his long-term kidney failure.

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