"Sectors such as tourism and health in Greece need technical support. The experience of France in these areas is available to Greece," Hollande said after his morning meeting with Samaras.
The authorities have seized and will sell by auctions hundreds of luxury properties, hotels in resorts, plots, agricultural land and industrial sites owned by famous persons with large, unpaid tax liabilities.
Only one of the 33 detainees who were subsequently released had been arrested as he was supposed to have taken part in the armed attack on the facilities of the mining company.