The tragic accidental killing of a 40 year old on Crete during celebratory gunshots fired as a custom, on the island, have led to numerous calls to curtail illegal firearms that are a tradition among Cretans, but none were so inflammatory as the ones uttered by retired politicians Theodoros Pangalos.

Former PASOK minister Theodros Pangalos has urged a mass airborne exodus from the country in the event that Alexis Tsipras is elected to power, arguing that a SYRIZA government would be disastrous for Greece and would involve the country "committing suicide again".

The notion that the US ambassador in Athens was a victim of surveillance by Greek intelligence services during his tenure as foreign minister was put forward by PASOK historic cadre Theodoros Pangalos.