Greek Influencer Dies After Falling from a Balcony in Calabria, Italy

The popular Greek influencer ‘Tzane’ has died in Calabria, Italy after falling from a balcony with no safety rails during a holiday with his friends.

Tzane was on Holiday with Fellow Influencers in Calabria

The beloved TikTok and Instagram content producer was on holiday in a town called Roghudi Vecchio, in Calabria, with fellow Greek influencers “Dream Greek” and Chris Koyas, where they had traveled to shoot videos and take vacation.

Italian authorities were immediately alerted and police officers and a helicopter hastily arrived in Roghudi Vecchio to collect the body. Further details on why Tzane took the risk of stepping onto the un-railed balcony in a long-abandoned house are as yet unknown.

The news of the influencer’s tragic death was confirmed by Christos Koyas, who said “Unfortunately, Tzane is no longer with us. He left us yesterday afternoon on our trip to Italy. Pray with us for his  soul to rest in peace.”

Σκοτώθηκε στην Ιταλία μετά από πτώση από μπαλκόνι ο γνωστός tiktoker Τζανέ. Ας κάνουμε μια προσευχή για την ψυχούλα του. pic.twitter.com/d6PVImcpxq

— Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος (@elefteria1821) March 13, 2024

Shortly afterwards, another famous Greek influencer, Alexandros Kopsialis, also made a related post, writing “This is not a troll or some kind of prank. Koyas probably on his confusion, has captured it in such a way that it looks like a joke, but unfortunately it’s not a joke!”

Tzane was one of the best known Fitness Influencers on Greek TikTok and among other things produced comedic content. In recent months he had set up a business venture with “Dream Greek.”

Tzane’s father is traveling to Calabria to identify the body and move forward with the necessary procedures to transfer his deceased son back to Greece.

@lordtzane

#tzane @Valakos real #reaction #fyp #global #fitness #realreaction

♬ πρωτότυπος ήχος – lordtzane

The Greek Town of Roghudi Vecchio, in Calabria

Roghudi Vecchio is described by National Geographic as a “ghost town,” raised up in the hilly Calabria region, and was once home to one of Italy’s last Greek-speaking communities. In a sense, it is a site of Greek ruins.

The town, in Italy’s Aspromonte mountains was founded in the 11th century, and the origins of its former inhabitants may extend to ancient times. The region of Calabria sits at the toe-tip of Italy’s boot, and when the Greeks began to colonize the area in the eighth century BC, Calabria was a toehold.

Over the centuries, southern Italy likely saw new waves of Greek immigrants, displaced from the eastern Mediterranean. New arrivals either gave new life to a flagging Greek-speaking minority, or reintroduced a language which had died out locally.

Even today there are a few thousand Greek speakers in Calabria. One village where the local dialect of Greko (Italian Greek) may be heard is Roghudi Nuovo (New Roghudi), which is part of a group of seacoast towns on the outskirts of the city of Reggio.