A 14-year-old boy is being hospitalized in serious condition after a fire broke out at the refugee facility of Elaionas in Athens early on Wednesday. According to the Health Ministry, the minor is suffering from burns and respiratory problems and has been intubated at the Aghia Sophia Children Hospital. …
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Platform for “social tourism program” opens June 15; beneficiaries categories
The platform for submitting applications for the “social tourism program,” which concerns 300,000 beneficiaries, opens on Wednesday, June 15, at 13:00 and will “run” for the period from 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023. Its budget is 35 million euros, an amount increased by 5 million euros compared to …
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The burger that “erodes the Greek society” for it honors the Pride Month
Can a burger erode Greek society? For some… it may! In the last few hours, a hashtag with the name of a Greek fast food chain has been top on the Greek Twitter trends. Reason is the initiative of the company on the occasion of Pride Month, to launch three …
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Mysterious siblings’ deaths in Patras: No drugs found in Iris and Malena
The second toxicological examination carried out at the laboratories of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki do not connect the deaths of the two girls, Iris and Malena, with drugs. Further examinations were considered as necessary after the drug ketamine was found in the body of 9-year-old Georgina who died while …
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Femicide in Drama: Man shoots dead wife for asking divorce
Α 63-year-old man shot dead with a rifle his 59-year-old wife in their family home in a village in Drama, northern Greece. He later turned the weapon against himself. It is the fourth femicide in Greece since the beginning of 2022. The victim had asked for divorce, local media report …
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Greece’s uninsured patients can only get prescription drugs/tests at public facilities. Exceptions
Uninsured patients in Greece will not longer be able to have regular drugs, laboratory tests and screenings free of charge or against a small percentage of payment from the own pocket if these are prescribed by private doctors. The decision goes into effect from 1. July 2022. Following a series …
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Half-naked man with rifle arrested in front of Greek Parliament
Police in Greece have arrested a 37-year-old man carrying a hunting rifle in front of the Parliament building and the Monument of Unknown Soldier in Athens early morning Tuesday. The half-naked man approached around short before 3 o’ clock in the morning, he was holding a rifle and a board …
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Silver Alert: UK national Archibald Green missing on Samos
UK national on vacations on the island of Samos, ARCHIBALD GREEN, 73 years old, went missing on May 26, 2022. He went missing On Thursday morning in the area of Marina by Pythagorio, Greece’s Silver Alter service said in a Missing bulletin. Green has blue eyes, is 1.90 m tall and …
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5-year-old girl found drowning in the port of Piraeus; last minute rescue
A 5-year-old girl was found drowning in the sea inside the port of Piraeus with the mother to not have even noticed the incident. A tragedy was averted only because the captain of a ferry readying to dock at the biggest port of the country saw the little girl’s hands …
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AMBER ALERT Abduction: Rainer Jason Pedersen, 6; fears boy may leave for Norway
An Amber Alert for 6-year-old boy Rainer Jason Pedersen, has been issued late on Tuesday night, May 24, 2022. There are fears the boy may leave Greece illegally for Norway. The boy has been allegedly abducted from the family home in Kifissia suburb of northern Athens by a man wearing …
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Justice for Eleni Topaloudi: Appeals court upholds life sentence plus 15 years for defendants
The Mix Jury of a Court of Appeal in Athens on Friday upheld the convictions for two men over the heinous crime of the rape and murder of 21-year-old university student Eleni Topaloudi on the island of Rhodes in 2018. In May 2020, a First Instance Court unanimously found the …
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Death of 14-year-old: Suicide after bullying or victim of “Blackout Challenge”?
The mysterious death of a 14-year-old boy in his family home on Friday night, just hours before participating in a competition sports game, has set authorities on alert and the prosecutor ordered an urgent investigation on Monday. The boy was found hanging from the ceiling of his room with a …
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Caroline Crouch: Life sentence for Babis Anagnostopoulos plus 11.5 years and €21K fine
Life imprisonment Babis Anagnostopoulos for the murder of young British-born mother Caroline Crouch and another ten years behind bars for the killing of the family dog, the Mix Jury Criminal court in Athens ruled early Monday evening. In addition, the 34-year-old defendant received 11.5 years in prison for the dog …
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School Principal of Special School bites pupil with disabilities
An elementary school teacher has bitten one of her pupils, an 11-year-old child with disabilities. The teacher is also the principal of the Special School in Arta, western Greece. She did not inform the mother of the incident. And it was the It was the victim’s mother who found out …
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Caroline Crouch: Her husband’s and murderer’s incredible testimony in court
In his incredible testimony in a court in Athens on Wednesday, confessed murderer Babis Anagnostopoulos tried to present himself as the “good guy” and his victim, Caroline Crouch, as an “unstable” and “violent” woman that beat him” and a “bad mother.” On the anniversary of the murder case that shocked …
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Femicide: Man strangles his wife inside her pharmacy in Kavala
Femicide in Greece: A new tragedy with a woman victim took place in a village of Kavala in northern Greece. A man strangled his wife. He called the police and attempted to commit suicide. The couple has two minor children aged 6 and 10. According the local media proininews, the …
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Greek authorities finally grant asylum to Saidu Kamara, refugee boy from Guinea
Greek migration authorities finally granted asylum to Saidu Kamara, a 17-year-old high school student from Guinea. It was the second application for asylum by the young boy who was at risk to be deported to his home country that he had left three years ago as unaccompanied minor. Kamara appealed …
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Greece’s Youth ready to migrate abroad for better jobs at 77.1%
A new wave of brain drain is broiling as Greece’s youth does not want to stay in the country and 77.1% of them is ready to migrate, a recent public opinion poll has found. And it’s not only the youth, at least in the intention to relocate abroad for better …
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Priest verbally attacks transgender-woman, forbids her soup kitchen meals
With vulgar comments and in outrage a priest in a suburb of southern Athens denied a transgender woman with financial problems to get meals from the parish soup kitchen. The woman had been going to the soup kitchen of a parish in Kallithea suburb for the last two weeks, when …
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Teenager boy stabs his stepfather because he was abusing his mother
A 17-year-old boy stabbed no less than ten times his stepfather because the 36-year-old man was abusing the boy’s mother. The incident took place in the area of Pylaia suburb of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Saturday night. The stepfather had once again beaten his wife and this had the boy …
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