As austerity digs in, Greek courts are battleground on foreclosures


  • World
  • Thursday, 30 Mar 2017

Vassilis Skopelitis speaks during an interview with Reuters as his wife Eleni looks in their house in the suburb of Nikaia, in Athens, Greece, March 24, 2017. The Skopelitis family house is up for auction in September as they cannot longer pay their monthly loan obligations. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

ATHENS (Reuters) - Crowds of protesters gathered outside court chamber 7 in central Athens one recent Wednesday, unfurling a huge banner before they moved swiftly to block the entrance.

"No House in the Hands of Bankers" the banner read. In the court a property auction was underway.

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