Скачать или смотреть Scenes of order and calm as Cyprus banks reopen with limits on transactions

(28 Mar 2013)
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1. Wide of Laiki Bank sign on building, tilt down to people in queue, waiting for bank to open
2. Close of people in queue
3. Close of someone holding bank deposit book, tilt up to their face
4. Close of ATM sign, focus pull to face
5. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Christos Papamichail, Laiki bank customer:
"Everything has been paralyzed. My business was already low, now no-one thinks of buying flowers. People think of everything but flowers, they've got other priorities. But now there's a half-hour delay and we're just waiting here."
6. Wide of Papamichail waiting with other customers
7. Close of Papamichail sifting through cheques
8. Wide of customer in queue, tilt up to note in bank window about reduced working hours
9. Mid of bank employee seen through window
10. SOUNDBITE (Greek) No name given, pensioner from Nicosia:
"We will get over this too. We've been through worse, much worse, so this is nothing."
11. Mid of queue, pan to entrance of bank
12. Close of employee in bank, seen through window
13. Close of door of bank opening, people walking in
14. People inside bank seen through window
15. Wide of queue outside
16. Close of Papamichail with security guard in front of he bank
17. Mid of Papamichail entering bank
18. Close of Papamichail inside bank, talking to bank clerk
19. Close of woman in queue outside
20. Wide of Papamichail coming out of bank
21. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Christos Papamichail, Laiki bank customer:
"What could have happened? Even if I hadn't managed to get it, I would still be OK. Why shouldn't I be OK? I managed to get 300 euros, so everything is fine, that's how it is."
22. Wide of Papamichail leaving
STORYLINE:
Banks in Cyprus reopened for the first time in nearly two weeks on Thursday, with strict controls to stop people from taking out all their savings and plunging the country's financial system into chaos.
Cypriots, however, formed orderly lines outside branches, waiting patiently as guards from private security firms reinforced police outside some cash machines and banks in the capital, Nicosia.
No particular crowd issues emerged, and the first day of banking went off smoothly until the branches shut at 6 pm (1600 GMT).
Laiki Bank has taken the worst hit of the banking crisis, and its customers with accounts over 100-thousand euros are likely to lose significant funds in a bank levy.
But customers queuing to get into one central Nicosia branch of the bank did not belong to that category.
Deposits below 100-thousand euros are still guaranteed by the European Union.
What they were hurting from was the fact that the banks in Cyprus were closed for almost two weeks.
"Everything has been paralysed," said one Nicosia florist.
With the banks closed and cash in people's pockets tight, his and other non-essential businesses were hit hard.
Still, he kept his calm even when the bank failed to open at the announced time.
"Now there's a half-hour delay and we're just waiting here," Christos Papamichail said, holding cheques he intended to deposit to make payments for his suppliers.
The bank later said its systems were slow to start, and 30 minutes after the deadline some 20 percent of its branches failed to open.
"We will get over this too, we've been through worse, much worse, so this is nothing," said a pensioner in the queue standing next to the florist.
Eventually, the door swung open and Papamichail was able to enter.
Two minutes later, he came out without the checks and with some cash in his hands.
"I managed to get 300 euros so everything is fine, that's how it is," he said.


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