Illegal immigrants landing on the Greek island of Mytilene will receive an unexpected New Year's boon of clothes left by a late asylum inmate who was a manic garment collector.
Eleftherotypia daily said Mytilene-born George Selimis owned 150 jackets, 58 pairs of shoes and an unspecified number of shirts and trousers which he had spent at least eight years amassing but never wore.
When he died of cancer a few months ago, Selimis' doctors decided that his wardrobe should be given to the migrants who make it to the island after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey in search of a better future in Europe.
George had a harmless quirk, he would buy clothes from expensive stores (with his pension) but inexplicably never wore them," Theodore Megaloekonomou, head of the asylum in Athens where the inmate died, told the newspaper.
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