Greek Police has arrested a 49-year-old philology teacher as the tenant of the storage unit in Pangrati district of Athens where weapons and explosives were found beginning of the week. The arrestee has not a criminal record, was not known to police and it is the man who had paying …
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Weapons, explosives found in storage unit in Pangrati, central Athens
Greek police has found and seized an arsenal of firearms and explosives during a search of a storage unit in Pangrati neighborhood of central Athens late on Tuesday. The findings coincide timely with the bomb that exploded in an apartment of Ambelokipoi central Athens two weeks ago with one dead, …
Read More »Birthday cake sets Athens bar on fire (video)
A birthday cake with sparklers set a well-known bar on fire when the sparkles touched the ceiling decoration. Customers fled in panic breaking the window glasses with the help of the personnel. Six people were transferred to a nearby hospital. It was in a well-known bar in Pangrati district of …
Read More »Holy Investment in Mt Athos: Hotel with spa opens its gates
Greece’s Monks’ Republic known imply as Mount Athos has welcomed a new investment move with the operation of a supermarket, a hotel with spa and restaurant in its capital Karyes. The new hotel, named “Samaradiko”, was the former cell of Agios Nikolaos, which belongs to the Holy Monastery of Megisti …
Read More »City of Athens announces schedule for free guided tours in October
The popular and free tours of Athens by licensed tour guides are back, the Municipality of Athens announced on Tuesday. Starting on the weekend of October 12-13, 2024, the current schedule will continue to October 30, in collaboration between the city’s Organization for Culture, Sports and Youth (OPANDA) and the …
Read More »Greece bans new short-term leases in three Athens districts (list)
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced over the weekend a ban on new short-term leases licenses in three municipal districts of Greek capital Athens. The measure is to be in effect for one year. Τhe measure is thought as a solution to the housing crisis in the country that has taken …
Read More »Femicide: Husband shoots down wife, takes his own life
Femicide in Greece: A 65-year-old man shot his 59-year-old wife dead and then took his own life in Lamia, Central Greece, on Monday afternoon. According to local media lamiareport.gr, it was neighbors in the suburb Pangrati of Lamia of the couple who heard loud sounds of a gun and informed …
Read More »Three children injured when plaster falls on their heads in Athens school
Three elementary school children were injured on Friday morning when plasters detached from the school ceiling and fell on the young pupils in an Athens neighborhood. Everything happened at the 149th Primary School of Petralona during the second break. Suddenly, a large piece of plaster fell from the ceiling of …
Read More »Gasoline prices remain high at Greece’s pumps while refinery prices decrease
The price of the unleaded gasoline refinery may have fallen by 4% in the past few days as a result of the fall in the international oil prices, but this reduction has not yet passed to the prices at the pump, at least, not in Greece. Prices remain at the …
Read More »Corona-Police hinders youth access to squares, yet the party is elsewhere
Dozens of corona-police were deployed at Varnavas Square in Pangrati district of Athens on Friday to prevent young people from hanging out there and crowd on a spring night outside their homes. Some 100 police, members of a corps with the incredible name “Management and Delimitation of Gatherings Squads” established …
Read More »Greeks clap in gratitude to doctors and nurses against the coronavirus
Following the example of Spain, Greeks came out in their balconies at 9:00 p.m. Sunday and clapped in gratitude to doctors and nurses fighting the coronavirus in the country’s hospitals. The call to action was supported by the wife of the Prime Minister, something that sparked also anger especial among …
Read More »Athens Municipality on high alert due to wildfire risk – Check other regions
Authorities at the Municipality of Athens are on high alert and took preventive measures due to strong winds blowing in the area and high temperatures that increase the risk of wildfires. Access to green parks including the National Garden in the center of Athens as well to forest areas like …
Read More »Digital Benches in Athens: Record your story or listen to other people’s stories
Digital benches: A pilot program gives residents and visitors of Athens the opportunity to record their own stories or listen to the stories of other people. Six digital benches have been installed at different spots of Pangrati district in central Athens and are in full operation since a couple of …
Read More »Hailstorm in Athens in the middle of April! (pictures, videos)
A sudden hailstorm in the middle of April surprised residents on Athens and the south-east suburbs early afternoon Monday. Within minutes, large quantities of hail covered the streets of the Greek capital with big, white, frozen balls. The hail stroke with loud noise the center of the Greek capital as …
Read More »German woman arrested as prime suspect for death of Greek partner
For ten days, she was sleeping next to her dead partner, she was talking to him and she would even cook for him, the German national, the number one suspect for the death of real estate agent in Halandri, reportedly told police. The 56-year-old German national even admitted to have …
Read More »Prespes Agreement: Minister submits resignation after receiving life threats
Deputy Minister for Citizens’ Protection, Katerina Papacosta has submitted her resignation to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday evening, after receiving life threats due to her intention to vote in favor of the Prespes Agreement. Tsipras did not accept the resignation of the former New Democracy politician, expelled from the …
Read More »Missing cat returns to burned down home 23 days after the deadly wildfire
Cat Pipis disappeared on 23. July when the deadly wildfire was raging in East Attica. His owners desperately looked for him but they had to leave the area and him behind in order to escape the flames and possible death. They didn’t give up hope, though. They put flyers all …
Read More »Greek Police investigates whether cancer patients received less medication by members of cancer drugs mafia
For the cancer drugs mafia life did not matter: two nurses in a big public hospital in Athens would give to patients a smaller dose of medication than needed and they would forward the rest of the quantity to the other members of the criminal cancer drugs gang. “Imagine three …
Read More »Athens: Belgian tourist fatally shot by firearm, autopsy finds
The Belgian tourist found dead last week is victim of a crime, autopsy conducted on Monday morning finds. A bullet was found stuck in his head. The mystery around the man remains as so far no family member has reported him missing to police. The 54-year-old man holder of a …
Read More »Live Performance on International Jazz Day – Apr 30/2017 free admission
Home Sessions Greece celebrates the International Jazz Day by organizing, under the auspices of Unesco, an all-day event that will host a painting exhibition, photo exhibition and live musical performances, all around Jazz. The artists involved are prominent with an important career in the arts and directly related to Jazz. …
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