A 50-year-old man killed his 54-year-old wife in their family home in Nikaia suburb of Piraeus in the early morning hours of Sunday. It is the first case of femicide in Greece in the year 2023. In a state of intoxication, the man called the police short before 5:30 in …
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Greek & German “quack doctors” charged for MS patients’ deaths
A bogus doctor in Greece and his accomplice, a doctor in Germany, have been tricking patients with Multiple Sclerosis convincing them to stop their medication for his alleged “groundbreaking” treatment with fake stem cells injections that were consisting of pure water. Five patients have died. The criminal duet has collected …
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Tavern in Nafplio kicks out dining gay couple; triggers outrage
A tavern in Nafplio has kicked out a gay couple that was dining in its premises. the tavern argued the gay couple should go because there were children and elderly there. In a denouncement on social media, one of the young men involved in the incident said that while they …
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Mother accused of murdering her 3 daughters remanded again
A court on Thursday issued a second temporary detention warrant against the 34-year-old woman for the deaths of her two younger children, Malena and Iris. Roula Pispirigou, from the western port city of Patra, is accused of killing her three daughters in 2019 and 2021. The 34-year-old is already in …
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Hospitals in Athens: Stretchers in Covid-clinics, waiting 20h for transfer
Hospitals in Athens are full as a cocktail of infections such as Covid-19, flu and seasonal viruses, sends more and more patients to public health services. The situation is described as rather chaotic with patients to have to spend endless hours on stretchers in clinic corridors or in ERs due …
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Suicides in Greece up 25% since 2020, says Suicide Observatory
The number suicides in Greece in 2022 increased by almost 25% relative to 2020, according to the annual suicide data reported and analyzed by the Suicide Observatory Non-profit organization “KLIMAKA”. The total number of reported suicides in 2022 was close to 600. Αnalysts note that this figure actually corresponds to …
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ICU for children: Open wound in Greece’s health system
Intensive Care Unit for children are an “open wound” in Greece’s the National Health Service ESY as recent cases of children in need for an ICU bed had to travel hundreds of kilometers have shown. In total, there are 55 ICU beds for children in public hospitals, of which 35 …
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6-year-old boy “brain-dead” after 300km adventure for ICU bed
6-year-old boy Thomas was declared “brain-dead” after a 300-km adventure with ambulance though western Greece to get an ICU bed. It is the second case in just two days that a child that had to be transported hundreds of kilometers from northern Greece to the south for an ICU bed. …
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David Crouch’s shocking revelations about Caroline’s murder
In an exclusive interview with ANT1 TV, the father of Caroline Crouch, David, made shocking revelations about his daughter’s murder by her husband Babis Anagnostopoulos. According to David Crouch, he received a letter allegedly written by the confessed murderer in which he wrote that Caroline’s fate was sealed because he …
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Greece combats drugs shortages with price hikes!
Greece’s Health Ministry finally found a solution, a medicine, so to say, to combat drugs shortages: Price Hikes. In the mind of the ‘genius’ health ministry leadership this will scare off citizens/patients from getting medicines and thus creating shortages. Crazy? Cynical? Stay-home-and-die policy? The Health Ministry will raise the prices …
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Roma man with mental disabilities set on fire in Patras
The brutal, racist attack against a Roma man with mental disabilities in Patras is shocking. The 35-year-old man who singing the carols on New Year’s Eve was forced by a group of thugs to get on his knees and sing. Then they threw some inflammable liquid at him and set …
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Mother throws 11-month-old baby in river on New Year’s Eve
The body of an 11-month-old baby girl was found at the dam of Aliakmonas river by Veroia in northern Greece on Monday. Police arrested the baby’s 29-year-old mother who eventually confessed to have thrown the infant into the icy cold river waters on the New Year’s Eve.. It was the …
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Drugs shortage in Greece drives patients ‘crazy’ amid wave of seasonal viruses
The problem of drug shortages is growing each and every day in Greece amid a wave of viruses outbreak and the threats by the Health Minister to pharmaceutical warehouses and doctors do not seem to help at all. At a time when seasonal viruses such as the flu, the RSV …
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Five minors remanded in custody for gang rape of 15-year-old
Two minors, members of a gang of minors who allegedly sexually abused a 15-year old boy in Ilion, east Athens, have been remanded in custody on Tuesday after they testified to the juvenile investigator. The number of minors in custody for the systematic gang rape rises to five, as another …
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Thessaloniki: 29-year-old son beats and stabs mother to death
A 29-year-old son brutally beat and stabbed to death his 60-year-old mother in her home in Kalamaria district of Thessaloniki on Wednesday afternoon. Neighbors said that they heard voices and noises from the apartment short before 4 o’ clock and called the police. Police officers and ambulance rescuers were confronted …
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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 …
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Flu vaccine without prescription, free of charge for certain groups of people
Vaccines against the flu can be administered in pharmacies without doctor’s prescription and free of charge for certain groups of citizens, Greece’s health ministry announced. The flu vaccine will be paid to pharmacists by the National Health Care Organization EOPY and the insurance funds. According to the relevant circular, groups …
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Two minors charged with attempted rape of 14-year-old classmate
Two minors were remanded custody after they were charged with the attempted rape of a 14-year-old classmate. The schoolboys were arrested along with three more in the city of Corinth in North Peloponnese on Thursday The arrest of the five schoolboys, aged 13 to 16, followed the complain of the …
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Court rules compensation to relatives of Mati disaster victim
An Athens court has ruled that the state must pay 300,000 euros in emotional distress damages to the relatives of a 77-year-old woman who died in the eastern Attica wildfires of Mati on 23 July 2018. Five relatives of the victim, who died after leaving her home in the settlement …
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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 …
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