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A 90-year-old woman has been arrested and kept at police station for 12 hours after she was found to sell handmade bootees without a vendor’s license. The arrest has triggered an outrage with the woman’s daughter to denounce that the granny did not even receive water during the nightmare hours …

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A retired officer of the Greek Air Force has shot his wife and turned his gun against himself on Thursday. The victim and the perpetrator initially survived the shooting and were transferred intubated and in critical condition to a hospital in Athens. One and a half hour after the incident, …

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A pair of child shoes, a few flowers, a couple of candles… Still in shock residents of Neos Kosmos paid a small tribute to the 4.5-year-old girl that was thrown down from the 5th floor of an apartment building by her own mother. 24 hours after the tragedy in a …

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A 24-hour telephone helpline for police officers has reduced their suicides to zero in 2018, Greek Police has said. The helpline was introduced two years ago, police chief Manolis Koufakis added. Koufakis said that there were no recorded suicides among police men and women in 2018, compared to the total …

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The last resident of a village abandoned long ago was found dead in his home on Friday morning. The 80-year-old man refused to move away from the place he was born and grew up. All other inhabitants had abandoned the mountainous settlement Perivolakia in Sitia on the island of Crete, …

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A total of 118 people died after contracted with the flu virus from begin of the flue season in October 2018 until March 10, 2019, Greece’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Thursday. Despite the recession of the flu, another seven people died of the virus last …

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A mother and her two children aged 9 and 10, were pulled out of  a car that fell off a cliff in the region of Rethymon Prefecture, Crete, on Tuesday. A woman was reportedly driving between Sisses and Aloides, when she lost control of the car that plunged into an …

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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 …

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A 40-day-old baby got injured when the priest blessing it in the church stumbled and fell. The baby suffered a broken leg and head injuries The incident occurred in the Church of Koimmissi Theotokou in Nikiti, Halkidiki, in Northern Greece. The parents had taken the baby for the special blessing …

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The management of Greek supermarket chain My Market has fired the Regional Manager who ‘forced’ company employees to smile on the grounds that they “had a job” and “get paid” too. The decision to fire the director was met with plenty ironic comments on Greek social media. “Look who’s smiling …

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The prosecutors’ report on the Mati wildfire on 23. July 2018 highlights the complete lack of organization and operation, and reveals the shocking responses by the Fire Service operators to residents desperately calling for help. The anguished calls by distressed citizens fearing for their lives were met with the cynicism …

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Anarchists staged a protest in a MyMarket branch in Thessaloniki on Wednesday,  a day after a company memo told employees that they have to smile because not only they have a job but they also get paid. Members of the collective “Freedom Initiative of Thessaloniki” entered the supermarket, threw leaflets …

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Greek authorities have charged 20 people with negligence in connection with the country’s deadliest wildfire in decades, which killed 100 and devastated the seaside town of Mati near Athens last year. Court officials say the suspects include the greater Athens regional authority chief, Rena Dourou, the mayors of Mati and …

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“Smile” is obligatory because one has a job and get paid for it. A memo issued by the Regional Operation Manager of one of the biggest supermarkets in Greece has triggered an outrage not only among its employees but also in the society. The bold and arrogant memo requires that …

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One firefighter died and another was transferred with respiratory problems in hospital on Friday. Both men were actively operating against a fire in an open plot near a factory in the industrial area of Sindos by Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. The tragedy took place around 3 0′ clock Friday afternoon. …

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The number of flu victims rose to 91, after another 17 people died last week, February 17-24, 2019, the Greek Disease Control and Prevention Center KEELPNO announced on Thursday. Accoridng to KEELPNO weekly bulletin, the majority of the victims, that is 95% had contracted influenza virus Type A, as well …

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Fearing that her house would collapse due to erosion, a granny abandoned her home in a village in Crete and started to walk in the rugged mountainous area, between rocks, boulders, shrubs, mud, landslides and water streams. Her only aid was a crutch and a make-shift wooden stick. Granny Irene …

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A 13-month-old baby girl died in the fire that broke out in an apartment in South Athens, early Thursday morning. At the time of the tragedy the baby was left alone, while the mother was reportedly meeting with her partner in his car outside the apartment building. The baby was …

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Justice stepped in and investigates  media reports according to which a needy old man was kicked out from a seniors’ home for being gay. The Seniors’ Home belongs to the Metropolis of Kalavryta of the hardcore Bishop Amvrosios. According to local media reports, the elderly man is suffering from serious …

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There is an increase in the number of cases involving physical and sexual harassment of minors recorded in Greece, as well as the number of such cases reported to authorities, as both parents and children are better informed and more aware of these issues. It is estimated that one in …

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