He passed away at the age of 72 George Tragas on Tuesday morning, having given battle to him coronavirus, being unvaccinated, in ICU of Sotiria hospital.
The well-known journalist had entered an artificial kidney machine yesterday as his kidney function deteriorated. Mr. Tragas had one heart complication which also led to intubation, causing pulmonary edema requiring stent placement. Eventually he could not stand it and ended up in the early hours of the morning.
The announcement of Sotiria
"Journalist George Tragas and leader of the" Free People "movement ended today, 14.12.2021, at 03.10 in the ICU of the SOTIRIA hospital. Unvaccinated, he was admitted with severe respiratory failure, due to covid19 infection on 04.12.2021 in a clinic of the hospital "I SOTIRIA" while a few hours later, due to his serious condition, he was admitted to the ICU of the same hospital ".Because he had not been vaccinatedSpeaking of the previous 24 hours, o Paris Kourtzidis, a representative of George Tragas's party, had noted that George Tragas was not a vaccinator, but that "George Tragas himself has expressed his views in favor of consensual vaccination."Explaining why George Tragas had not done it coronavirus vaccine, he had said how "Because he has sugar and can have any side effects at any time, the doctors decided that he should be in the ICU. It is not intubated, but it is supplied with oxygen. Today is the 9th day he is sick. "Today and tomorrow are critical days, because all patients these days, on the 9th and 10th day, show whether they 'clear' or continue to have problems."Who was George Tragas?He was born on July 30, 1949, in Metaxourgeio. His father worked as a gynecologist. He started writing articles locally at an early age and worked for the magazine Images of Eleni Vlachou, while he continued to work on the sports pages of Mesimvrini covering football matches. Βurban station in its course was the newspaper Vradyni, in which he worked for a number of years. He was also a police reporter for a number of years, before engaging in political reporting. Apart from being a journalist, he has also been the publisher of the publications "Chora", "Crash" and "Anexartisia".On television, he presented on the old SKAI (now Alpha) the shows Without Anesthetic and Viva, which was transferred to ANT1, on the new SKAI the Sniper and other shows. He also participated in main news bulletins of various TV stations (mainly Alter, Extra Channel, Action 24, New Epsilon TV and the old Epsilon TV (now Open Beyond), as a political commentator. George Tragas became known from an incident that happened in 1988, when he was a Free Press correspondent at Herfield Hospital in London, reporting on the treatment of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Papandreou's health condition as much worse than the official medical announcements of the hospital and the correspondents of the other newspapers. He also sharply commented on the prime minister's love affair with flight attendant Dimitra Liani. This created tensions in the environment of the former prime minister, with the result that his special secretary, Michalis Ziagas, first physically attacked Tragas with fists and then chased him in the gardens of the hospital. together with the Crash magazine he publishes, the internet station Crash Radio. He used to have a show on Parapolitika 94.3 FM and for seven years, on Real FM 90.1. His show on Crash Radio is also televised through the regional station Dion TV in Central Macedonia, while previously, the same show was broadcast on Euro TV (also in Central Macedonia), while it was also broadcast on other regional channels in Central Macedonia. at Vergina TV and Neo Epsilon in Thessaloniki.
Engaging in politics
In February 2021, George Tragas announced the establishment of a political party under the name "Free People". His purpose, he said, was to ensure democracy, fight unemployment and the economic crisis that arose due to the coronavirus pandemic in Greece. The party was co-founded by former Achaia MP Nikos Nikolopoulos with the Christian Democratic Party of Greece.
The next months, Rachel Makri's Victory Front announced their coexistence with the Free People, the United Pallaki Front of Dimitris Kazakis, the Panhellenic Chariot of Citizens of Giannis Dimaras, the Greek Political Consciousness, the Party of Borrowers-Identity of Centers, the Democratic Social Movement, the party of Democratic United Citizens, the Party of Greek Borrowers with Former MPs and politicians of PA.SOK, New Democracy, Independent Greeks and the Greek Solution.
However, there were departures in the following months from the formation with the main ones of Nikos Nikolopoulos and the Christian Democratic Party of Greece, Rachel Makris, Nikos Karahalios and the formations E.PA.M., DI.K.KI. and K.EL.DA.
For vaccines
The following are found on crashonline.gr regarding the positions of George Tragas's party on vaccines: "The political establishment of the post-colonial period nurtured the wealth oligarchy of Athens and leveled the bourgeois and working class. "This is now creating a peculiar civil war between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated."
"Mandatory vaccinations as is done in Greece with lateral and direct blackmail and various forms of threats are a modern tyranny and violate human rights and the ethics of medical science."
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