Journalist Lefteris Giannakopoulos has lost his battle for life after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. ESIEA announced the sad news.

Lefteris Giannakopoulos was one of the most hard-working, modest, and creative people in the Greek media in recent decades, who served, among others, as editorial director of “Vima tis Kyriakis”.

Lefteris Giannakopoulos passed away at the age of 67, after a long, brave but uneven battle with Parkinson’s disease.

A graduate of the National Technical University of Athens, Giannakopoulos had already begun his journalistic career as a student in the mid-1980s, as a material editor at Rizospastis.

The statement of the ESIEA

The Board of Directors of ESIEA is saddened to announce the loss of our colleague Eleftherios (Lefteris) Giannakopoulos, who passed away today after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Lefteris Giannakopoulos was born in 1957, in Athens. In 1986, he graduated from the Engineering Department of the National Technical University of Athens, having already started his journalistic career at the newspaper “Rizospastis” as a material editor. He then worked for more than twenty years at the newspapers “TO VIMA” and “TO VIMA TIS KYRIAKIS”, where he was editorial director. Since 2017, he was retired.

Lefteris Giannakopoulos was a hard-working, conscientious colleague, with deep education, ethics and impeccable collegiality, who never ceased to help younger colleagues and stand by them.

With his expertise and knowledge, he excelled in newspaper design and devoted himself to journalism, which, according to him, “must always serve a social purpose.”

The Board of Directors extends its condolences to his family, friends, relatives and especially to his wife and good colleague, Lefteris Giannakopoulos, Eleni Voultsidou and his only daughter, Katerina.

The details of the funeral of Lefteris Giannakopoulos will be announced in a later announcement of the Union.

The family’s request is, instead of wreaths, to support the research being carried out at the Aegineteion Hospital for Parkinson’s disease:

Aegineteio Hospital, IBAN GR18011004000000000004054609624, National Bank, email with the intention of donation to tameio@eginitio.uoa.gr “for research in Parkinson’s disease, in memory of Lefteris Giannakopoulos”.