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During the latest riot in December 2011, vandals caused damage to Syntagma Square and smashed the Hotel Grand Bretagne’s marble steps for the sixth time. After receiving criticism, Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis said that he’d rather “have broken marble than a broken head.” In reply to the minister’s comment, the president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association, Yiannis Retsos (photo), said that neither broken heads nor broken marbles are preferred. “It’s the State’s obligation to provide solutions to problems and not create dilemmas and we would rather hear the Government tell us more in regards to its plans for the 6,500 lost jobs from the hotels in Athens from May 2008 to May 2011,” Mr. Retsos said.
Posted On 23 Aug 2012
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