Three awards belonging to the late actor Giannis Voglis were found in the trash, next to a recycling bin. Along with them were a flashlight, a lighter, and a bronze base. The items had been placed on a table when a passerby spotted them and decided to take them in order to give them a “second chance” by selling them on an online marketplace for buying and selling items.

The man who found them spoke about the moment he saw them:
“I found the three awards of Giannis Voglis a few months ago by chance next to a recycling bin in Pallini. Apparently, his relatives didn’t want them and threw them away. They were set up on a table along with some other personal items. I was deeply impressed to find such important mementos of a great actor abandoned on the street. Of course, these awards don’t have any significant material value—only historical value. Only the award from Chania is made of bronze. I feel very lucky that I found them and am offering them for sale at a low price, in order to give them life again. After all, since they were thrown in a bin, the family certainly doesn’t want them,” he told the newspaper Espresso.

His son, on the other hand, stated that he was not aware of what had happened to them:
“These awards were in my father’s house in Pallini while he was alive. When he died in 2016, we moved them to storage. At some point we must have taken them for recycling—I don’t remember. I didn’t know they had been put up for sale,” he noted.

The actor’s son, Roberto Gkoglis, also spoke at midday on January 8 on the program Super Katerina, clarifying that his father’s “historical archive” is stored and fully preserved. As he stated:
“They were in storage and perhaps at some point ended up in recycling, because a decade has passed since my father’s death. We have stored my father’s material; there is a complete archive, there are many objects. My father’s historical archive is safe and stored.”

According to Espresso’s report, on the online marketplace the most expensive award is being sold for €75. The award presented to Giannis Voglis in 2007 by the former mayor of Chania, Kyriakos Vyrvidakis, created by the well-known sculptor Panagiotis Tzafolias, is listed at €75, according to the newspaper’s report, and is the most expensive of the three. The award from the Drama Short Film Festival of 2011 is being sold for €25, as is the award from the Hellenic Canadian Congress of B.C. from 1989. The remaining items belonging to the actor that were found next to the awards are being offered together for a total of €65.

Giannis Voglis passed away in 2016 at the age of 79.