Helena Smith

Athens

Correspondent at The Guardian

Helena Smith is the Guardian's correspondent in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus

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Articles

‘I want to tell the world’: Bergen-Belsen survivor recounts horrors of Holocaust

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Helena Smith

For a long time, Lola Hassid Angel did not want to talk about the horrors of her childhood. Her experiences of the second world war had not been light: by the age of eight, the Holocaust survivor had “reached adulthood”, seen things she should never have seen, heard sounds she should never have heard, been confronted by terrors she could neither forgive nor forget.
Greece’s Aegean islands reel from ‘lake of mud’ flash floods before Easter rush

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Helena Smith

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Greece’s Aegean islands reel from ‘lake of mud’ flash floods before Easter rush

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Helena Smith

People on the Aegean islands, more used in April to the sight and scent of spring’s blossoms, have been left reeling from flash floods spurred by typhoon-strength gales, with authorities calling a state of emergency in some of Greece’s most popular destinations less than three weeks before Easter. “It’s a total catastrophe and it happened in just two hours,” said Costas Bizas, the mayor of Paros, the island worst hit by weather not seen in decades.
Cyprus court acquits five Israeli men accused of raping British woman

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Helena Smith

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Cyprus court acquits five Israeli men accused of raping British woman

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Helena Smith

A Cyprus court’s acquittal of five men accused of abducting and raping a British woman in the resort of Ayia Napa has been met with outrage as calls mount for the verdict to be challenged. Dismissing the charges on Monday, the three-member district court in Paralimni ruled the testimony of the 20-year-old had not been credible because it “lacked coherence and contained numerous substantial contradictions”.
Mourners protest against corruption in North Macedonia after nightclub fire

1 month ago | msn.com | Helena Smith

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Mourners protest against corruption in North Macedonia after nightclub fire

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Helena Smith

With flags still flying at half mast in North Macedonia, grief over a fire that tore through a nightclub killing dozens of people turned to anger as thousands took to the streets in protest. In Kočani, the town where the the fire destroyed the Pulse venue early on Sunday, demonstrators demanded justice for the 59 people who lost their lives and called for an end to the corrupt practices blamed for the tragedy.
North Macedonia mourns dead in nightclub fire as 15 people detained

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Helena Smith

North Macedonia has declared a seven-day period of mourning after a fire in a nightclub that left at least 59 dead and scores injured, as authorities detained 15 people for questioning and the interior minister said a preliminary inspection revealed the club was operating without a proper licence.
59 killed and more than 100 injured in North Macedonia nightclub fire

1 month ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Helena Smith

Fifty-nine people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a fire that broke out in a nightclub in North Macedonia early on Sunday. The blaze in the small eastern town of Kočani is thought to have erupted when special-effect pyrotechnics caused the roof of the Pulse nightclub to go up in flames. North Macedonia’s interior minister, Panche Toshkovski, informed reporters of the number of deaths after visiting the scene.
At least 50 killed in North Macedonia nightclub fire, reports say

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Helena Smith

At least 50 people have been killed in a fire that broke out at a nightclub in North Macedonia where more than a thousand had gathered for a concert, the state news agency MIA reported. Citing the interior ministry, MIA said “at least 50 people died in a discotheque in Kočani”, a town about 60 miles east of the capital, Skopje, where “around 1,500 people attended a concert”. AFP could not immediately confirm this information with the Balkan state’s authorities.