Six people charged with the beating death of US citizen Bakari Henderson at Laganas on the island of Zakynthos in July 2017 were found guilty by a second-level court on Friday. Five defendants were found guilty of intended fatal bodily harm, and one was found guilty of fatal bodily harm. …
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Henderson murder case retrial postponed; US-Vice raises issue to Greek PM
The parents of Bakari Henderson were back to the courtroom in Patras on Monday where the trial at Second Instance for the men accused of killing their 22-year-old four years ago was set to begin today. The couple that had traveled for one more time from Austin, Texas, to Greece …
Read More »Bakari Henderson: Prosecutor asks maximum sentences for 6 defendants
The public prosecutor in the criminal court in Patras asked maximum sentences for six out of nine defendants for the murder of 22-year-old US tourist Bakari Henderosn last year in Zalynthos. According to local media, the prosecutor who leads the trial has asked the maximum sentence for murder with intent …
Read More »Trial for slain Bakari Henderson kicks off despite postponement attempts
Under strict security measures, the trial of the suspects for the murder of US student Bakari Henderson kicked off in the Mixed Jury Court in Patras, West Peloponnese, on Friday morning. lawyers’ attempts to postpone the trial failed, relevant petitions were rejected by the court. Nine defendants are being tried …
Read More »Bakari Henderson’s parents in Greece to attend trial, await justice for slain son
For fourteen months Phil and Jill Henderson try to cope with the loss of their son Bakari. They try to understand how they lost their son because of one selfie in a bar in Laganas. They are currently in Greece to attend the trial of those suspected to have stabbed …
Read More »One year after Bakari Henderson’s brutal murder, his family awaits justice
One year after the brutal murder of 22-year-old US national, Bakari Henderson, outside a bar on the island of Zakynthos, his family still awaits justice. Henderson from Austin, Texas, had just graduated from college and hes was spending vacations on the island in the Ionian Sea together with friends. On …
Read More »Bakari Henderson family to file for mammoth compensation, says lawyer
The last act of the brutal murder of US student Bakari Henderson will take place in the court rooms. The victim’s family plans to file a law suit and have perpetrators pay a high price. Lawyer Andreas Patsis told media that he has been assigned by the Henderson family to …
Read More »Bakari Henderson: Eight charged with murder; a brawl for a “selfie”?
One Greek and seven Serbian nationals are been accused to have beaten to death 22-year-old American tourist, Bakari Henderson, in the early morning hours of Friday outside a bar in the tourist resort of Laganas, on the island of Zakynthos. All suspects were taken to prosecutor under security measures on …
Read More »Club bouncers in Laganas brutally beat young British tourist (video)
A young British tourist was brutally beaten by bouncers of a night club in Laganas resort on the island of Zakynthos. Police arrested at least one perpetrator. The beating has been recorded and uploaded on social media. The victim, a 19-year-old British tourist, has been surrounded by bouncers who kick …
Read More »Briton with severe head injuries in ICU after fight in Laganas resort, Zakynthos
A 35-year-old Briton is hospitalized with severe head injuries after a fight outside a bar in the resort of Laganas on the island of Zakynthos. The father of two was transferred to a hospital in Athens due to the severeness of his condition. The victim was beaten by two young …
Read More »US lawmakers turn to State Dept seeking justice for tourist brutally killed in Zakynthos
A group of U.S. lawmakers have written to Rex Tillerson asking for the State Department to get involved in the pursuit of justice for 22-year-old Bakari Henderson who was killed outside a bar in Zakynthos last July. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, along with Congressman Michael McCaul from Texas …
Read More »Mini tornado strikes in hotel swimming pool in Rhodes (video)
A mini-tornado stroke in the swimming pool of a posh hotel in Lindos on the island of Rhodes on October 10th. The freak weather had sun umbrellas flying, branches of palm trees were blown around and sunbathers just stunned or tried to seek shelter from the flying objects. The footage …
Read More »One Greek, two young Britons arrested for selling ‘laughing gas’ in Malia, Crete
Police in Malia and Chersonissos on the island of Crete arrested one Greek and two young British nationals for illegally trading laughing gas. The 62-year-old Greek is owner of a cafe-bar who next to coffee and drinks was offering also bulbs with laughing gas to customers keen to spend a …
Read More »Meningitis not ‘laughing gas’ reason UK tourist, 18, fell in coma in Malia, Crete
Not ‘laughing gas’ but infection with meningitis was the reason an 18-year-old female tourist from UK fell in coma in Malia, Crete, last week. On Zakynthos and Corfu, police has arrested 17 people and seized more than 10,000 laughing gas bulbs in recent days as authorities are determined to crack …
Read More »22-year-old US tourist stabbed and beaten to death in Laganas resort, Zakynthos
A 22-year-old US tourist was stabbed and beaten to death in the holiday resort town of Laganas on the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea in the early morning hours of Friday. The victim has been identified as Bakari Henderson from Austin, Texas, a student at Arizona University. The …
Read More »Greek-Bashing by Squadron Commander Bild Zeitung – When is Blitzkrieg?
It’s not the first Greek-bashing campaign and not the last one. Squadron commander, tabloid Bild Zeitung launched a campaign urging its readers to say “No” to “more billions to greedy Greeks”. Bild readers should print a huge “NEIN”, make a selfie with it and e-mail it to the newspaper. Reason …
Read More »Open Letter to Mario Draghi (ECB): Difficult to Save the Euro, When…
Head of European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, is expected to announce some measures to save the euro. While the markets anticipate to hear the news, normal citizens and taxpayers of the European Union and the euro zone try to figure out what’s the importance of Draghi’s intervention and how these will affect …
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