Die from coronavirus the George Tragas. According to reports, the journalist and publisher Giorgos Trangas died of complications while he was in intensive care at Sotiria.
His health deteriorated in recent days and he passed away in the early hours of Tuesday morning. As OPEN reported two days earlier he had complications with his heart.
Who was George Trangas
He was born on 30 July 1949, in Metaxourgeio. His father worked as a gynaecologist. He started writing articles in local media from an early age and worked for Eikones magazine by Eleni Vlachou, while he continued to work in the sports pages of Mesimvrini covering football matches. A key milestone in his career was the newspaper Vradini, where he worked for many years. He was also a police reporter for a number of years before moving into political reporting. In addition to being a journalist, in the press he was also editor of the newspapers «Chora», «Crash» and «Independence».
On a television level, he presented the shows Without Anesthetic and Viva, which was transferred to ANT1, the new SKAI, the new SKAI, the Sniper and other shows. He also participated in central news bulletins of various TV stations (mainly Alter, Extra Channel, Action 24, New Epsilon TV and the old Epsilon TV (now Open Beyond)), as a political commentator.
Tragas became known from an incident that occurred in 1988, when he was a correspondent for the Free Press in London's Herfield Hospital, when he was reporting on the hospitalization of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. In his reports he presented Papandreou's health as much worse than the official medical reports of the hospital and the correspondents of other newspapers. He also commented scornfully on the Prime Minister's love affair with flight attendant Demetra Lianis. This created tensions in the former prime minister's entourage, with the result that his private secretary, Michalis Ziagas, first physically attacked Trangas with his fists and then chased him into the hospital gardens.
On the radio, he had a show on the self-managed Greece 94.3 while at the same time he set up, together with the magazine Crash, the internet station Crash Radio. Previously, he had a show on Parapolitika 90.1 FM and for seven years, on Real FM 97.8. The show he had on Crash Radio was also broadcast on television through the regional station Dion TV in Central Macedonia, while previously, the same show was broadcast on Euro TV (also in Central Macedonia), while he had a show on other regional channels in Central Macedonia, Vergina TV and Neo Epsilon Thessaloniki.
