British woman dies after being attacked by stray dogs in Greece

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    A retired academic telephoned her family for help as she lay dying after 
being attacked by stray dogs while on holiday in Greece.

    The body of the 62-year-old was found by an emergency rescue team on Saturday, two days after she made her distress call.

    The victim, who was named locally as Celia Hollingworth, had suffered wounds that were consistent with being mauled by animals. UK authorities did not dispute the dead woman’s identity.

    She had been visiting an archaeological site at Mesimvria in northern Greece, close to the border with Turkey, and had decided to walk at least part of the way back to her guesthouse in the nearby town of Maroneia.

    She was last seen by bathers at Petrota beach at 4.30pm on Thursday, which is close to the archaeological site.

    Ms Hollingworth, from Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, worked at Bristol University. Local reports claimed she was also an Oxford Univeristy professor although the Telegraph was unable to confirm this at the time of going to press last night.

    She had raised money for Greek charities helping Syrian refugees in the country and had supported a Greek trades union official who was facing prosecution in his home country. Ms Hollingworth was an official with the University and College Union, representing academics and lecturers, and was an active human rights campaigner.


    When Ms Hollingworth’s family in London received the emergency phone call, relatives contacted authorities in the area, claimed local television reports. Authorities began a widespread search before finding the body after a lengthy search.

    Her body was found by police and firefighters at 10.45am local time on Saturday.

    A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are in contact with Greek police in relation to a British woman missing in northern Greece since Thursday.

    “We are also providing consular assistance to her family.”

    The woman’s family is believed to be travelling to Greece.

    There are reported to be more than one million stray dogs in the country after many were abandoned following its financial crisis.

    Locals in the area said the path she had been walking on was commonly used but that it passed near farms where guard dogs were deployed. It is possible, said a source, that she had been attacked by a territorial guard dog protecting a local farm.

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    Oh brother... The EU is getting out of hand isn't it? I think Brexit has just came right on time. What kind of a nightmare is this? Grow up with a certain culture, always live to learn and teach for the good of humanity, maybe an advocate of the EU...

    Then one day, got eaten by stray dogs in a 3rd world sh.thole province of the United States of Europe...

    Bigly sucks...
     
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    This has NOTHING to do with Brexit or the EU.. You want to make this tragic death political? Shame on you.
     
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    Since it was close to the border with Turkey the dog was from the Turkish inhabited area. Anyway Goody hates Greeks. It has to do with the Greek and Cypriot territorial waters which Turkey is trying to claim. As for the dogs, in Athens the strays are very friendly... and bright. One even rides a bus everyday.
     
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    Sounds like Greece should declare a bounty on these strays and eliminate the danger.

    However, trying to score political points on such a tragedy is disgusting.. . and we see far too much of it here.. Trump is a master at this sort of lowlife behavior.
     
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    Sounds like Greece should declare a bounty on these strays and eliminate the danger.

    However, trying to score political points on such a tragedy is disgusting.. . and we see far too much of it here.. Trump is a master at this sort of lowlife behavior.
     
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    As Goody stated it was near the Turkish border, and that area is inhabited by Greek Muslims. The dog was not really in a Greek inhabited area since the Greeks like to feed the dogs, so they are very friendly. Before the Olympic Games they did round them up in Athens and spaded them, since they didn't have the heart to do otherwise. They have never been known to be dangerous.
     
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    Packs of stray dogs are always dangerous.. Funny that you blame it on Greek Muslims.
     
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    I've heard Turkey is home to a lot of vicious stray dogs, as well as some parts of Eastern Europe. So it's not surprising this happened in nearby Greece.

    It's a shame a woman has to lose her life to these savage beasts.
     
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    People die all the time, and mad dogs are not a statistically important cause of death. American police are hugely more dangerous, as are right-wing politics and colonialism in general.
     
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    Even though the poor victims was an enemy of Western Civilization, she should have been better prepared, as she was an older woman off by herself in the hinterlands. She could have likely survived a dog attack if she had an EDC kit on her (Every Day Carry). Besides a lighter, watch and compass, she should have at least carried a knife and a pocket flashlight/strobelight. A basic handgun would have likely ended the ordeal before it started---but there was no chance of her doing that.
     
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    Packs of stray dogs are always dangerous.. Funny that you blame it on Greek Muslims.
    A stray dog problem is easily fixed.
     
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    Marge calm down and tell me about the odds this poor woman getting killed by stray dogs if the EU hadn't approached Greece in a stupidly tolerant way that almost all presidents of the council of the EU ignored the fact that Greece is highly incapable of being any part of the EU? Don't you forget, if Greece hadn't been the spoiled bcth of the EU those dogs wouldn't have been stray in large groups like wild dogs of Australia...

    Ps: Are you in Riyadh?
     
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    You'd be lucky if you were an orthodox Turk who thinks she's Greek like rest of the entire Greece but you are not even a Rum... So why so sad? Lol..
     
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    Stray dogs use subways in Moscow, you can Google it and watch yourself, so what? The point is Russia is not a EU country but Greece is...
     
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    Thank you Marge... I deserved to be called as a low life I know. But I got news for you, Saudi Arabia has just began to opening up a little. I heard ladies attended to a street party in Riyadh and to a game in a stadium where men too were present. What do you think about that? I honestly think it's just awesome...
     
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    Wow, this is just pathetic. What an utterly ridiculous stunt to associate this to the EU. Complete idiocy.
     
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    Hey Goody, there is no such thing as an Orthodox Turk. There are no Orthodox in Turkey remember? Maybe you're thinking of Muslim Romans? Oh that's right I know of two Orthodox in Constantinople. My grandson's friend and the Patriarch.

    I read once that there are 20 million crypto Orthodox in Turkey, and considering that 8 million copies of the Bible were sold when it was translated into Turkish, and that would mean one Bible for each family, it's probably true. :lol:
     
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    That's unfair to people who are allergic, afraid or otherwise dislike dogs. Public transportation is for humans, not animals.
     
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    I blame it on the Muslims because of their attitude towards dogs. It makes dogs less friendly and more vicious... not that the Greeks are great dog lovers. But they are well fed, and have never been a problem. If they were, the Greeks wouldn't put up with them. They did cut down on the dog population by spading them before the Olympic games.

    I wonder if that dog had rabies? Sometimes they just go crazy. I've had my experiences.
     
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    If the passengers don't mind, and the bus driver doesn't mind, why should you?
     
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    I hope that number gets doubled in less than a year. I'm for religious freedoms unlike some stupid morons posing as Greek here. lol...

    Look what I got here: (Maltepe is known as its conservative population in İstanbul)



    From Beyoğlu İstanbul (Orthodox Christian students walk through the streets freely without no police escort or something, chanting "Greek" Christmas songs in Greek language)



    We got even much more than this in the name of religious freedom here...

    Now it's your turn to show me videos from Greece in which I can hear some "ezan" from the minarets of the Turkish minority... Come on, don't be shy... :)
     
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    Way to use a tragic death to take a jab at Republicans. This was a good example of a suicide character assassination. (Slow clap!)
     
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    I agree but that doesn't change the fact that Greece is a spoiled bcht of the EU and that's why nobody cared their inability of compatibility with the rules and laws of the western members of the union which in fact is the only damn reason the poor British woman got killed and eaten horribly by a pack of stray mad dogs. The only thing the EU cares about is Greece being that outpost to NATO and EU to get them high hand against Turkiye on the negotiation table because they see Turks been gaining strength faster than ever...
     
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    This is one of the most ridiculous threads ever
     
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    In the first video they are not Orthodox. They are Catholic Priests and maybe some Protestant Ministers, but definitely not Orthodox. As for the second video, it is in the Beyoglu district which is where the foreign embassies are located. More than likely they are Orthodox from different embassies, and the man leading them is probably a priest. They are not allowed to wear their robes in Turkey, which might be for their own safe keeping since the Patriarchate has been attacked many time. If you notice, they are walking along a certain road which is probably next to the Church, and probably guarded by the police.

    There are also a lot of Greeks and Greek business' in Turkey, and when my grandson who has friends in Turkey and loves Istanbul was in a cab, his friend told him not to say anything in Greek. What I know from the Church is that there are about 4,000 elderly Greek Orthodox members in Istanbul. Hundreds of thousands were forced to leave the city during the pogroms of the 1950's, even though they were protected by the Lausanne Treaty.

    As for the crypto Orthodox, they wouldn't be 'crypto' if they were allowed to worship freely. As for the Muslims in Greece, a certain amount were allowed to stay according to the Lausanne Treaty, and instead of decreasing in population because of persecution the way the Greeks did in Istanbul, their population in Thrace has increased. ..They do have mosques to worship in.

    As for the refugees and migrants, most are transitory, although the Greek government is allowing the Syrian children to attend Greek schools just in case they remain. The Syrian orphans are considered Greek.

     

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