Videos shows riot police attacking peaceful protesters, among them elderly, with batons and tear gas in downtown Athens as thousands of Greeks march expressing their rage for the train collision and demanding justice for the victims and not cover-up. Video via avgi.gr: Peacefull protesters march towards Syntagma Square chanting slogans, …
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Four police officers arrested for torturing foreign national in detention
Four police officers were arrested Saturday for allegedly beating and torturing a detainee. The arrests were made by Greek police’s Internal Affairs Division. The arrested, a higher officer, two lower-ranking policemen and a member of the Special Guard unit were responsible for guarding and transferring detainees. The victim, either a …
Read More »Police shuts down 5 metro stations during protest rally
Greek Police shut down five central metro stations in downtown Athens making it difficult for strikers and protesters to join the big rally on Wednesday. These metro stations are: Syntagma, Panepistimio. Omonoia, Monastiraki, Evangelismos. Open metro stations are around 500 meters away from the meeting point at Klafthmonos Square. These …
Read More »Citizen Protection Minister orders investigation into police firing tear gas
Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos ordered an investigation on the police actions during the Sunday’s protest rally for the train collision in Tempi. The Minister of Citizen Protection, Takis Theodorikakos, ordered an immediate investigation into the actions of police officers during the rally and protest march for the fatal …
Read More »Police arrests “Pink Panthers” gang members for Rolex robbery in Athens
Greek Police announced on Friday the arrest of several members of the international Pink Panthers gang, who committed an armed robbery at a jewelry store in Athens on December 20, 2022. The gang that robbed 24 luxury Rolex watches, with a total value of approximately 135,000 euros, was dismantled by …
Read More »Angry protesters and police clash over deadly train crash
Riot police beat people and fired tear gas and sound flares at students who gathered outside the headquarters of Hellenic Train in Athens on Wednesday to protest the deadly train crash in Tempi and commemorate the victims, most of them students returning home after a long weekend. Angry protesters smashed …
Read More »Riot police against teachers; protesters laugh during PM’s speech (video)
Firing tear gas and using their shields, riot police in Athens tried to push away protesting teachers outside the Music Hall where an event held by the Education ministry was held and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was to deliver a speech. Before the event began, a large number of teachers …
Read More »Corruption: High-ranking Police Officers offering protection to criminal bosses
Dialogues between high-ranking officers of the Greek Police EL.AS. with bosses of criminal gangs were published by newspaper To Vima on Sunday. According to the newspaper claims, a total of 27 police officers seem to have been involved in criminal activities offering protection to gangs mostly active in fuel trafficking. …
Read More »Police officer who shot Roma boy released from custody
The 34-year-old police officer accused of the fatal shooting of 16-year-old roma boy Kostas Fragoulis beginning of the month has been released from custody on condition that he will not leave the country. The decision of the officer’s release was announced on Monday by the Judicial council in Thessaloniki. The …
Read More »Protests and clashes with police after death of Roma boy
Carrying banners and shouting “Murderers” thousands of Greeks protest in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities for the death of 16-year-old Kostas Fragoulis, an unarmed Roma boy shot in the head by a police officer. At the time, angry members of Roma communities across the country have started fires and …
Read More »Roma boy shot in the head by police officer dies in hospital
16-year-old Roma boy Kostas Fragoulis, shot in the head by a police officer on December 5, died on Tuesday morning Ippokratio General Hospital in Thessaloniki announced. For nine days, the teenager who was also a father of a baby, was struggling for life, intubated in the ICU. However, from the …
Read More »Roma shooting: Police officer under temporary house arrest
The 34-year-old police officer will be temporarily placed under house arrest for the shooting of the 16-year-old Roma boy. This was decided after the justice investigator and the prosecutor disagreed on the pre-trial detention of the accused officer. The officer will be placed under house arrest, until the final decision …
Read More »Large-scale police operations in Roma camps after riots (picts)
Large-scale police operations with dozens of police officers and special units have been taking place in Roma camps in western Athens since Thursday morning following ongoing riots over the shooting of a 16-year-old Roma boy by a policeman. Special units police officers with riot police squads and patrol cars moved …
Read More »Roma community in outrage; Grigoropoulos rallies turn into protests against police violence (videos)
As the 16-year-old Roma boy keeps struggling for his life after he was shot in the head by a policeman, members of the community are in outrage and started protests in Thessaloniki and Attica. Outside the hospital in thessaloniki The atmosphere is explosive also because of the anniversary of the …
Read More »Thessaloniki: Police shoots 16-year-old Roma boy in the head
A 16-year-old Roma boy has been shot in the head and is in critical condition after a surgery. The boy had reportedly tanked for 20 euros and left without paying the bill. He was shot in the head after a pursuit by the police. According to media, the teenager drove …
Read More »Greek police arrests 78 people, incl. award-winning photojournalist
In a large operation at “Prosfygika” area in downtown Athens, Greek police arrested a total of seventy-eight people on Tuesday. Among the arrestees was a award-winning photojournalist and member of the Foreign Press Association, Nikos Pilos. He was covering the police operation and was arrested despite showing his camera and …
Read More »Athens: Over 5,500 policemen, traffic restrictions for November 17 Anniversary
Over 5,500 police officers are being deployed across Greek capital Athens for the events of November 17, when Greeks will honor the 49th anniversary Students’ Uprising against the military junta. The 3-day events start on Tuesday at the Athens Polytechnic School in downtown Athens next to the National Museum and …
Read More »“No suspect found on Emirates plane,” says Greece’s Police
No “suspicious” passenger was found on the Emirates plane that was forced to return to Athens International Airport accompanied by F-16 fighter jets following a security alert on a “suspicious terrorist passenger” by a US intelligence agency. Short after Thursday midnight and two hours after Flight EK209 landed in Athens, …
Read More »Pedophilia scandal: Police officer under investigation, priest in hospital
A priest of Athens was rushed to the hospital on Thursday as people close to him found him passed out at his home. According to information from the church issues website, ekklisiaonline.gr, the name of the priest was involved in the scandalous case of the 12-year-old girl that was forced …
Read More »Police officers charged with raping woman at Athens police station
Two police officers of the DIAS motorcycle squad were charged with raping a 19-year-old woman in Omonia police station in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The two men, aged 24 and 27, were arrested by the police’s internal affairs unit on Friday morning who is leading the investigation. Both …
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