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The Guardian - UK
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Staff and agencies in Athens

Police in Greece investigate after tourists targeted in bedbug hoax

A bedbug
The Greek health ministry said that misspelled posters in English warning apartments were to be evacuated because of bedbugs were fake. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Greece’s health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of short-term rental apartments in Athens by inventing a bedbug crisis.

A ministry statement said the posters stuck up outside apartment buildings in the city centre, festooned with fake ministry and Athens municipality logos, were “absolutely false”.

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