89-year-old man arrested after shooting spree wounds five in Athens

In the ancient streets of Athens, a city long acquainted with the tremors of history, an 89-year-old man discharged a shotgun at two separate locations on Tuesday, wounding five people before police took him into custody. The incident is unusual not only for its violence but for the age of the man at its center, prompting a city and its institutions to pause and ask what conditions — personal, social, regulatory — allowed this moment to arrive. Greek authorities are now working to reconstruct both the timeline of the attack and the interior life of a man who, at the edge of a long life, chose