Looting in flood-stricken houses in Central Greece. Four arrests

Looting in flood-stricken areas of Volos, Magnisia, and Trikala, Thessaly, Central Greece. Police arrests four thefts, while it intensifies patrols to prevent looting.

Police arrested four men on Sunday for stealing two electric devises and one bed from homes destroyed by storm Daniel.

the pain, but also the suffering of the flood victims, two citizens found an opportunity to take advantage of, who attempted to steal household electrical appliances from the victims.

According to local media taxydromos.gr, two Greeks aged 38 and 34 were arrested in the area of Volos. They had approached in the early morning hours of Sunday,  the house of a 43-year-old woman and stole a refrigerator and a stove that had been temporarily left on the sidewalk together with other pieces of furniture to dry and to enable the cleaning of the flooded house.

The police were called to the scene, arrested the two perpetrators and returned the electric devices to the owner.

It should be noted that the whole of Magnesia, as well as Thessaly in general, is on alert as citizens complain on social networks about suspicious movements of citizens, with the purpose of looting.

Earlier, local media TheNewspaper.gr had reported of several incidents of looting in houses abandoned by their owners, as they are flooded.

As he reported, unknown persons break into the houses, under the guise of helping, and steal everything that is left in good condition.

Residents in Palea, Paleo Limenarheio and Agria have already reported the incidents to the Police, the newspaper underlined.