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When Olga Couldo decided to go to Rethymno for a vacation, she never believed that she would live through a life-threatening adventure.

For a few days policemen-cyclists patrol the streets of Rethymno. They speak foreign languages, serve visitors, and also intervene in mild cases of delinquency. It is mild, visible policing that contributes to the tourist development of the area, as the police director of Rethymno, Antonis Routzakis, stressed at a press conference.

The holidays of a couple from Heraklion who had camped on the beach of the town of Rethymnon resulted in tragedy when the man and woman tried to save their two children from drowning.