Daphne Tolis
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Freelance Producer | Journalist | Documentary filmmaker • #Fixer in #Greece • for VICE, ABC, PBS, BBC • 🏆 DIME Award 2022 & European Press Prize Winner 2024
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My
@vice_gr
documentary “The First European Closed Camp”, filmed on Samos island, got the Silver Award/‘Best Original Reporting’ at the 2022
@dimeawards
. Thank you to all my colleagues, staff & freelancers✨
Now available on You Tube
#Ant1news
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Restaurant tables and chairs swept away in
#Athens
flash floods in a touristic area near the Acropolis.
📍Monastiraki
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Vitallia Animal Hospital in Lebanon’s Jamhour treats pets AND humans that have been injured by Tuesday’s
#BeirutExplosion
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#Beirut
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Polish MP
@f_sterczewski
reportedly broke through a cordon of border and police forces in order to provide water, medicine and food supplies to migrants caught in a standoff at the Polish-Belarusian border.
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Residents, holiday makers, seasonal staff have evacuated hotels and homes in Kiotari and Lardos as forest fire burns out of control on the Greek island of
#Rhodes
. Police say around 15,000 people ordered to evacuate.
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A man captured rescuing animals from the
#wildfires
in Fyli (Hasia) 14 km northwest of
#Athens
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A little girl sleeps on the ground under a makeshift canopy covering both her ears. Close to 13000 asylum seekers, including 5000 children, are without shelter after fires destroyed
#Moria
camp on the Greek island of
#Lesbos
.
11.9.2020 📷
@daphnetoli
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Video recorded from the Greek Coastguard vessel shows an incident in the Aegean Sea between the Greek and Turkish Coastguard. Looks potentially dangerous.
Video is Greek government handout.
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«Τί τραβάς, τί τραβάς», φωνάζει μια γυναίκα από τηλεοπτικό συνεργείο σε μια νεαρή γυναίκα που τραβάει βίντεο με το κινητό της. Νωρίτερα ο κύριος που φαίνεται στο βίντεο εκφράζει την αγανάκτηση του στο συνεργείο του ANT1.
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Έχουν συλληφθεί τέσσερις πυροσβέστες, ο ένας εχασε το δάκτυλο του από κροτίδα όπως μου λέει ο πρόεδρος πανελλήνιου σωματείου συμβασιούχων πυροσβεστών.
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Several people swept away by flash floods outside the Evangelismos metro station in Kolonaki,
#Athens
, on Wednesday. The
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Συγκέντρωση και πορεία υπέρ της Παλαιστίνης την Κυριακή 29/10 στην Αθήνα.
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Today is the funeral of Mrs Efstratia Mavrapidou in Skala Sykamnias, Lesbos. Mrs Mavrapidou was one of the Greek grannies photographed by Lefteris Partsalis holding and feeding a Syrian woman’s baby in October 2015. She was 96 years old.
The Greek grannies
@Partsalis_L
photo'd holding a refugee baby tell me their parents were Asia Minor refugees too.
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“We managed to save 10 sheep. Look at at how these ended up. This is the end of us”.
#Thessaly
#GreeceFloods
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Protesters march in
#Athens
Thursday towards the Representative Office of the European Commission. The banner at the top of the rally reads, “Pylos was a mass murder by the Greek state and the European Union”.
🎬 Daphne Tolis
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Difficult night on the island of
#Rhodes
for thousands of residents, holiday makers and seasonal staff ordered to evacuate as fire keeps raging. People will spend the night at indoor stadiums, chartered ferries, hotels (not affected by the fires), schools and outdoors on beaches.
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An Afghan toddler takes a few solo steps on the asphalt road bedding down thousands of asylum seekers from
#MoriaCamp
for a third night.
#Lesvos
#Greece
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A horse died in
#Corfu
around midday on Thursday after it collapsed while pulling a tourist carriage in scorching heat.
The other side of
#Greece
where animals are ab-used, tortured, abandoned, left to die.
@ippothesisGR
#Κέρκυρα
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At an underground metro station as captured by one of my favorite photographers, Marcus Yam, now in Ukraine.
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More drowned corpses of sheep float in the water as captured in this image.
#GreeceFloods
#Thessaly
“We managed to save 10 sheep. Look at at how these ended up. This is the end of us”.
#Thessaly
#GreeceFloods
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Greece’s foremost composer and conductor Mikis Theodorakis has died, aged 96. An icon of resistance against WWII Nazi Germany and a leading critic of the Greek military junta that tortured and imprisoned him, he was best known for his film scores for Zorba the Greek, Serpico & Z.
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Very big turnout at the
#Athens
protest tonight in support of a 24-year-old woman who has come forward to report she was raped by two men at a New Year’s party in a luxury hotel in Thessaloniki.
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Η νεαρή γυναίκα απάντησε ψύχραιμα στις φωνές, λέγοντας ότι έχει δικαίωμα να καταγράφει με το κινητό της.
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A rubber dinghy in distress carrying 32 people has been adrift between Turkey and Greece and is refused rescue by the respective coastguards, according to
@alarm_phone
. People are paddling with their hands.
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Just came across the charred remains of a turtle north of Athens in one of the areas that’s been swept by the wildfires.
📷 Daphne Tolis
#Greece
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Bird view snap of the Greek Parliament. The snow capped mountain of Ymittos behind.
📷 Daphne Tolis, 27 Jan.
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People have gathered to protest against migrant and refugee pushbacks in
#Athens
on Sunday. According to the Open Assembly Against Pushbacks and Border Violence, today’s protest is a part of a broader EU campaign happening today.
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The Palestinian community in Greece at the
#Athens
Polytechnic on Friday 17 November. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the student uprising against the military dictatorship.
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- “An elderly woman’s body is floating in the kitchen. Dead animals are passing as if they are boats.”
- “Have you informed the authorities about the deceased woman?”, the TV journalist asks.
- “Yes. They said they will first take out people who are alive.”
#GreeceFloods
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We won! 🙏
The Border Graves Investigation is the winner of the special European Press Prize award.
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The Greek authorities said some pets will be allowed in the new closed and controlled facility on
#Samos
island. While waiting to be transferred from the soon-to-be-closed Vathy refugee camp, Fatima from DR Congo says she’ll try to bring ‘Shushuna’ with her.
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Thread:
“After 2 days we ran out of food and water. After traveling a total of 5 days we called a ship and asked to ‘throw us’ some water. On the night of the 2nd day, the engine of the boat kept breaking down.”
#Greece
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"Mariupol will be included in a list of cities in the world that were completely destroyed by the war, such as Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny", Greece's consul general in
#Mariupol
, Manolis Androulakis, said after landing in Athens on Sunday.
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The case was tried today on
#Lesvos
, Greece. The asylum seekers that were on the same rubber boat appeared in court to testify and said they owe their lives to Mohamad’s actions. Mohammad was sentenced to 146 years in prison.
🔴27-year-old Mohamad tried to save everyone's life when their rubber boat got into distress. Bc he tried to steer the boat safely ashore, he was arrested for "boat driving" & has to stand trial on Lesbos tomorrow.
He should be celebrated instead!
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The Athens Olympic Stadium surrounded by tiny little lights and a major fire in the background.
📸 John Liakos, 22 August
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Roasting lamb and ‘kokoretsi’ at the storefront of a coffee-bar on
#EasterSunday
in downtown Athens.
#Greece
, 24 April
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Grateful to all the people I met while working on this piece: The tragedy of Europe's unidentified migrants
#Greece
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Have you walked around
#Athens
?
What is your experience of the roads and pavements?
#Acropolis
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A fire is currently active less than 2 miles away from this area. We’ve seen water dropping helicopters streaming in during the last hour. Residents and firefighters are on the ground trying to stop the fire from reaching a nearby village.
@IbtGd
@MaggieRulli
#Ευβοια
#Greece
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Turkish Coastguard Command vessel fires water cannon at rubber boat carrying refugees.
#Lesbos
#safepassage
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“Αυτό το δάσος έχει χαθεί. Οι μαυρόγυπες, οι ασπροπάρηδες & τα όρνεα που φώλιαζαν σε αυτό το δάσος και αναπαράγονταν είτε έχουν καεί είτε έχουν φύγει. Δεν θα επανέλθουν. Και αυτό το δάσος δεν θα επανέλθει σε αυτήν του την μορφή”.
Prof. Dr. Alexandros P. Dimitrakopoulos
#Δαδιά
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“Hello Pia, I’ve read about your story in the papers. You sound like a badass. I am an artist from the UK and I’ve made some work about the migrant crisis, obviously I can’t keep the money. Could you use it to buy a new boat or something?”
#Banksy
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The Greek Air Force’s pilots who were killed during the firefighting mission in Evia were Christos Moulas, 34, and Periklis Stefanidis, 27.
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A minute’s silence was held for the deaths of migrants and asylum seekers at the sea and land borders.
#Athens
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Volunteers & local women rubbing & warming up nearly drowned child & women as coast/rd keeps rescuing more.
#Lesbos
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Firefighting efforts continue on mountain village in
#Rhodes
on Sunday.
There are some indications of arson, the Fire Service spokesman said on Greek TV referring to the wildfires on the island of Rhodes.
🎥 UGC
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Greece receives first
#Rafale
fighter jets, the first planes purchased under a defence deal with France
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“Come here, come here!”, a man is heard shouting repeatedly in english from the back of a pick up truck that is driving through dense smoke. “We must rescue them, stop the car”, he is heard saying in Greek.
#Rhodes
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#RefugeesGr
checking in at the Athens airport. 227 Syrians will fly to Germany today under the refugee relocation plan.
#Greece
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People that lost their shelters in
#MoriaCamp
due to the fires are finding shade and temporary resting ground between graves in a Greek orthodox cemetery.
#Lesvos
#refugeesgr
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The Greek government has told public and private radio & television broadcasters to air 30 second messages every hour on public health protection and measures to prevent the spread of
#Covid19
.
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Portugal is to take in 500 unaccompanied minors from Greek refugee camps as soon as restrictions on movement imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak are lifted, the country's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said on Tuesday -
@Reuters
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Australian news cameraman hit twice by police in Washington. The second time he is punched straight in the face and lens while broadcasting live
#protests2020
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An exhausted volunteer catches some much needed minutes of sleep four days after helping out fight fires burning for eight days straight on the Greek island of
#Evia
.
📷 Daphne Tolis
#ClimateAction
#GreeceFires
#πυρκαγιές
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Kids in a downtown neighborhood in
#Athens
finished their igloo on Wednesday. Their parents said they had been scooping snow for two days from parked vehicles around.
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“Hi Daphne,
In case of concerns for the welfare of donkeys and mules working in
#Greece
, we recommend you inform the local authorities (Veterinary Department and police), by way of a written complaint.”
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Αγενής στην Πλάκα με τη μηχανή του:
- Απαγορεύεται να κάνετε βόλτα, είναι πεζόδρομος, έχει ταμπέλα.
- Γιατί δε χωράς; Αν δε σ’αρέσει κάτσε σπίτι σου.
Ούτε ο
@AthensMayor
, ούτε η τροχαία έχει καταφέρει το αυτονόητο, να μην ανεβαίνουν τα αμάξια & οι μηχανές στα πεζοδρόμια.
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This is
#Greece
's
#coronavirus
situation room, from where the country's response to the pandemic is coordinated.
@JamesAALongman
interviews Greek Deputy Civil Protection minister Nikos Hardalias, who explains how confirmed cases are traced and followed real-time.
@ABCWorldNews
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People swim in floodwater in a small town in
#Karditsa
on Wednesday morning.
📍Palamas, Karditsa.
#StormDaniel
#Greece
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Gutted to hear that the 38-year-old man who died today as a result of the devastating wildfires in Attica was a father of two children, as well as an esteemed colleague. We were filming together just a few weeks ago in Athens. Rest in Peace dear friend.
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A blue chair (that one sees at a traditional Greek ‘kafeneio’) sits on a rock next to a Greek flag. The sea, the sky - needless to describe. Shot on September 8, 2020.
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This morning I was live on the 0900 am DW News morning program to talk about the wildfires on the outskirts of
#Athens
. After about 1 minute, the live was interrupted. The screen turned black and a message appeared saying that the phone “needs to cool down before I can use it”.
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Nuns refusing to leave the monastery on Tuesday.. orders are to evacuate due to the active
#wildfire
in the area of Mandra. In this photo I screen-grabbed from a short clip, a policeman is seen talking to a nun in what looks like an effort to convince her to leave the monastery.
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Donkeys stand in front of the body of ‘Jamie’, who died on the island of
#Santorini
. “Not a common breed in
#Greece
”, his body was “not designed to take the treadmill of the 588 steps to the old harbor & the weight of the building material he hauled on the cliffs of the Caldera”.
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Residents of
#Lesbos
are blockading the port in Mytilene to prevent riot police from disembarking. Blockades are also set up by different groups of protesters at the harbour in Sigri, as well as in the area where Greek authorities are planning to build a migrant detention centre.
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Two women sit by a harbour after the sun has set on the island of Chios.
📸 Daphne Tolis
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New video, obtained by Greek journalist V. Labropoulos, shows the Adriana fishing boat listing left & right in calm seas. The footage is recorded with a thermal camera that belongs to the 🇬🇷Coast Guard patrol boat. There is no visible timestamp on-screen, but should exist.
#Pylos
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Today is Smoky Thursday or Tsiknopempti, as it’s called in Greek.
‘Tsikna’ is the smell of meat when grilled and this group of neighbors is grilling souvlaki and sausages outdoors in Athens.
#Τσικνοπέμπτη
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From Moria camp to living on the street when Moria burnt and then to a tent at the Mavrovouni camp on Lesbos island, these three siblings have now received a positive decision on their family asylum claims. I first met them in the ‘jungle’ in Moria when they arrived 2 years ago.
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The blaze approaching the National Park of Parnitha at the edges of
#Athens
, “the nearest national park to a capital city in Europe”.
🎥 Daphne Tolis, 23 August
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A glimpse of the burnt area north of Athens.
🎥 Daphne Tolis, 23/08/23
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“Smuggling ring with Greek connections”, reads today’s headline in ‘Kathimerini’ newspaper. An investigation led by the Coastguard & the National Intelligence Agency, “concludes there was direct communication” between smugglers in Turkey & Greek activists before departure from 🇹🇷
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