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A famous Greek children books author has been arrested for possession of child pornography. The 53-year-old man was arrested already on October 18 and was remanded in the special prison for sexual offenders since then. The case became known today, November 2. The multi-awarded author V.P. was also the head …

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The “rapist with tattoo” of Palaio Faliro, a 45-year old Albanian national who fled to his home-country to escape arrest, was arrested by Albanian authorities and extradited to Greece in the early morning hours of Tuesday. After Greece issued an international arrest warrant, Albanian police located the man in his …

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The trial of 21 people facing charges over the deadly forest fire that swept through the seaside town of Mati on July 23, 2018 began in Athens on Monday, October 31, in a courtroom busting with people, woefully inadequate given the size and the complexity of the case: a national …

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The 45-year-old Albanian national identified by Greek police as the “rapist with the tattoo” of Palaio Faliro, in South Athens, has fled to his home-country. The 45-year-old man from Albania has been identified via CCTV footage and DNA sample as the perpetrator of the rape of a 34-year-old woman and …

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Ambulance workers warn that they face a major worker shortage that is slowing emergency response times across the country. Currently, 45 ambulances are used during daytime and 28 ambulances at night in Attica, according to the National Center for Emergency Care (EKAV). International standards recommend provision of one ambulance for …

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Tragedy on Crete: A rock crushed on a small hotel facility in Lasithi, killing one woman, seriously injuring her child. The tragedy took place in Agia Fotia resort village near to Ierapetra short before Saturday midnight. According to local media neakriti.gr, a large piece of rock detached, rolled down the …

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The mysterious death of an high-ranking clergyman in his home in downtown Athens is puzzling the Greek Police that examines the possibility of a homicide. 52-year-old archimandrite Chrysostomos Levogiannis was found in his home at Amerikis Square in Kypseli district of the Greek capital by his cleaner at Wednesday noon. …

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The Pharmaceutical Association of Attica complained that there is a serious shortage of drugs as more than 400 essential medicines are not available. Pharmacists and patients are racing to secure some drugs, the FSA said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the FSA, the shortages concern irreplaceable drugs such …

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An explosive device went off at the entrance of the apartment building in the neighborhood of Agios Panteleimonas on Sunday, where the 53-year-old pimp, the main suspect in the case of the sexual abuse and pandering of the 12-year-old girl in Kolonos used to live. The man man has been …

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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 …

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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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Child abuse in Greece has reached unrepresented levels during the pandemic and the sexual abuse of girls has doubled when compared to the previous years, data of the Forensic Department of Thessaloniki has shown. Media reports about the sexual abuse of children pop up now almost on a daily basis …

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A total of 29.5% of the total population (around 3,092,300 people) are simultaneously at risk of poverty or social exclusion, the Hellenic Antipoverty Network said on Monday in its annual report. According to “Poverty Watch Greece 2022”, which uses Hellenic Statistical Authority and other data including the Network’s own questionnaires, …

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The deadly flood where two people died in Agia Pelagia on the island of Crete has triggered the intervention of the local judicial authorities that ordered an urgent preliminary investigation. The head of the Prosecutor’s Office of Heraklion, Thanasis Galina, ordered on Monday an urgent preliminary examination for the deadly …

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The woman who had been missing in the floods of seaside resort Agia Pelagia by Heraklio, Crete, was found dead in the sea by divers on Sunday morning. It was drones that had spotted her body among rubble swept by the rushing waters through the village into the sea. The …

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Angry protesters defaced the shop of the 53-year-old rapist and pimp of a 12-year-old girl and set his business van on fire in the Athens district of Sepolia  during a rally held on Saturday. Protesters wrote slogans and threw paint on the shop’s front. Minor scuffles erupted later with riot …

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One person has died and at least two others are missing after torrential rainfalls hit the island of Crete on Saturday morning. Homes and businesses have been flooded, streets turned into mud rivers, vehicles have been swept away, bars, restaurants and supermarkets landed in the sea, when the sky opened …

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The public prosecutor in Athens on Friday brought felony charges against two policemen for the gang rape of a 19-year-old woman inside the police station of Omonia in downtown Athens. Charges of violation of the law on personal data were brought, too, the officers allegedly filmed the attack. It was …

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Twice Olympics Tae Kwon Do silver medalist Alexandros Nikolaidis passed away at the age of 42. He was battling an extreme rare form of cancer for the last two years. Nikolaidis had also served as deputy spokesman for the main opposition party left-wing SYRIZA. The great athlete and father two …

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A 14-year-old girl who went missing from Nikaia, a district near the port of Piraeus, on October 7, was found in Markopoulo, east Attica, on Wednesday. The girl had informed her parents who picked her up. However, a child protection charity says the girl was kidnapped and sexually abused. Charity …

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