“A potential early justice”evokes with caution Diamantoula Kritikou, farmer and president of the agricultural union of the municipality of Amynteo (Macedonia of the West) in Greece. This cultivator of vines and peaches saw its 2,400 euros annual subsidies melt at 1,800 euros between 2017 and 2020. “The national organization responsible for these aid then told us about European decisions, but, gradually, we understood, with my cooperative, that these funds were actually going to false farmers”she says to World. She also explains that she had received intimidation in the form of repeated controls and fines following the reports she had deposited with her cooperative at the time.
Each day has its share of testimonies and new revelations from the Greek press, since May 20, after the European prosecution (European Public Prosecutor's Office, EPPO) announcement conduct searches in Athens and Crete as part of an investigation into “An organized fraud system” to the funds of the common agricultural policy (CAP) taking up a character “Systematic” Between 2019 and 2024.
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Source: Lemonde