"Germany doesn't care that three million pensioners are dying in Greece", George Trangas told Spiegel online in an exclusive interview. Trangas, who has been very outspoken against the German government of Angela Merkel and the Troika, told the magazine that he voices his opinion because he does not like what this elite group is doing to Greece and its people. Spiegel describes him as a "cult figure" notes that his word (and opinions) carry a certain amount of weight with Greek citizens. When asked to assess his opinion on Angela Merkel, Trangas said that he is angry that she acts as though she (meaning the German government) has no responsibility in this crisis at all. In reality said Trangas German companies have been handing out bribes in Greece for years as well as risky loans. "Merkel is lying when she says that she knew nothing about all that. But now, she is playing the fiscal watchdog." Trangas ranted a little bit more, but more or less gave the online magazine an interesting interview that can be described as being fair.
Georgios Trangas had launched into a tirade -- yet again. He seemed to have completely forgotten his four studio guests. Trangas stared into the camera and turned to his favourite subject: the Germans, and how they are cold-blooded shoving Greece into the abyss. "Germany doesn't care that 3 million pensioners are dying here," he raged.
The sentence is one of his more harmless utterances on this evening. But such verbal artillery is hardly out of the ordinary on the Athens television broadcaster Extra 33, a channel full of angry broadsides against the "German occupiers."
"Choris Anästhetiko" is the name of the program, and it lives up to its name: "Without Anaesthesia." Politesse is an alien concept on the show as it offers ruthless analysis of the economic and debt crisis gripping Greece. On this evening, the show is set to examine the problems facing taxi drivers in Athens and the suffering shipping industry. But the experts invited to appear on the show serve little more of a purpose than providing the moderator with additional excuses to launch into a diatribe.
"Barbaric measures," Trangas spits, referring to the austerity demands made by the so-called troika of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Berlin, he posits, is controlling everything anyway. Click here to go to Spiegel online
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