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Theft of luggage from hotels entrances has become something usual. One out of every two tourists who leave their suitcases at the entrance of the hotel lose them forever.

"The worst thing is when Englishmen or Germans want to come to Greece they are literally bombarded by articles about crime in the city centre when they write Athens in the search engine for hotels," noted the President of the Association of Hoteliers in Athens Yoannis Retsos.

"Gangs of illegal immigrants devastate the area around Omonia Square. We reached the point to believe the illegal trade is the smallest problem," said hotel-keepers. The Panhellenic Federation of Tourist Companies called the mayor of Athens and the governor of Attica to take the necessary measures to "protect" the image of the city and its visitors. Impressive is the fact that municipal police observe the decay of the Athens center as simple spectators. Former mayoral administration believed that municipal police are incompetent and ineffective in fighting crime.