Refugee unions are falling victim to usury, as revealed by the president of Ethnikos Achnas, Mr. Kikis Filippou.
Informing the Parliamentary Committee for Refugees, he referred to an incident in which a union, in order to meet the criteria, approached an individual requesting a loan of € 20.000.
The usurer told him that he is ready to lend the € 20.000 on the condition that in a month the union will pay € 30.000. We have reached this point he said.
Moreover, Mr. Filippou mentioned that the refugee associations find it difficult to operate the football academies. The mother of a child came and told me that she could not pay the € 180 that the contents of the suitcase cost (clothes, shoes, etc.). I offered her to give me only € 80 but she told me that she did not have the money and she told me "take the clothes, because we can write the baby".
Tell me what is my position as a union, asked Mr. Filippou who discussed the financial situation of the unions.
He warned that many unions are in danger of closing. We have taken out loans and they are dragging us to the courts, said Mr. Filippou.
Source: Liberal