"We feel deep sorrow at this disaster - which we saw happening live on our television screens (...). Whether it was an accident - which is the most likely scenario - or a malicious act, when we see a monument collapsing in front of our eyes, we are affected because these monuments are linked with our lives," Culture Minister Myrsini Zorba said on Tuesday, commenting on the devastating fire that gutted Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris during an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency's radio station 'Praktoreio 104.9 FM.'

A furor has been triggered since yesterday when the intention of Culture Minister Myrsini Zorba and the government to transfer the Costas Varotsos "Dromeas" (Runner), the emblematic sculpture of Athens that has been located outside the Hilton Hotel since 1994, in return for a statue of Alexander the Great, one of the kitch monstrosities that had flooded the neighboring capital in past years.

Greece lies in anticipation of the rare phenomenon of the Mediterranean cyclone, in the last few hours and while the country is already being swept by strom front "Xenophon".