Erythros Stavros Hospital in Athens

Disabled Athens woman confined to balcony for 8 years

A 77-year-old ethnic Greek from Russia and a male relative have been arrested in Athens on suspicion of abusing a disabled woman they were meant to be caring for.

Authorities said that the 36-year-old victim was confined to a wheelchair and had spent most of the eight years since her mother’s death isolated on the balcony of her home in Kallithea, southern Athens.