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Six police officers including the head officer of the Agioi Anargyroi police station and the police emergency phone-line operator have been suspended from duty and are under investigation after the murder of a young woman by her ex partner outside the police station on Monday night. Also suspended and under …

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A 28-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her 39-year-old ex-partner  outside a police station in Agioi Anargyroi suburb of north-western Athens on Monday night. It is the fourth case of femicide in Greece since the beginning of 2024. The victim had gone to local police station and reported that …

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Greece’s Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis triggered an outrage and an uproar over the weekend after he told a meeting with representatives of the pharma industry that “3 in 4 prescription medicines for cancer are not necessary for the patients.” He added that “drugs prescribed by doctors for cancer patients should …

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A court in Athens found Roula Pispirigou guilty for the murder of her 9-year-old daughter Georgina Daskalaki and sentenced her to life imprisonment. The Mixed Jury Court unanimously ruled on Friday that Pispirigou was guilty of both the homicide and the attempted homicide of her first-born and last surviving daughter. …

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A court in Athens found the main defendant in the pimping case of the 12-year-old girl in Kolonos guilty of rape and pimping and the girl’s mother innocent. 16 other defendants were found also guilty. The Mixed Jury Court of Athens did not adopt the outrageous prosecutor’s proposal and ruled …

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A 17-year-old student and the 60-year-old principal of a high school in Kypseli district of Athens have been hospitalized with multiple injuries after a young man barged into the school grounds and attacked the student in the head with a hammer. Armed with two knives and a hammer, the 19-year-old …

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Outrage on social media in Greece, after the prosecutor requested the acquittal of 55-year-old businessman Ilias Michos of charges alleging the rape of a 12-year-old girl in downtown Kolonos district of Athens, as well as the charges of coercive pimping and collection of prostitution earnings, citing insufficient evidence. In contrast, …

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A 72-year-old cancer patient in Heraklio, Crete, has ended his life unable to bear the pain and waiting for medicine to do chemotherapy, a drug which is in short supply in Greece. The issue was brought up a few days ago by local radio station Radio Kriti and a great …

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Shocking attack by a homophobic mob against two member of the LGBT+ community in downtown Thessaloniki on Saturday night. Over 150 people chased and mocked the two transgender people, threw stones, bottles and other objects at them. The victims both aged 21 were walking on Aristotelous Square at 10:30 p.m., …

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A case of sexual exploitation of a minor who lives in Rethymno, Crete, has been revealed after a now 15-year-old girl gave birth to a child in the local hospital. The  girl from Bulgaria was at the city hospital accompanied by her mother, where she gave birth to a baby …

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A 47-year-old man has been arrested in Larissa for sexually abusing his 3.5-year-old daughter. The arrest a few days ago followed a complaint filed by NGO for the child protection “the Smile of the Child.” Based on the complaint, the man had mistreated his child in his car, in the …

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One in three school children fall victim of bullying in schools, a survey in Greece has found. And this while the phenomenon of bullying is increasing worldwide. The phenomenon of violence in schools and bullying is getting bigger and bigger, the annual statistics of NGO “The Smile of the Child” …

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A 64-year-old man shot his 39-year-old son-in-law in the middle of a street in Nikaia suburb of Piraeus, then turned the gun against him and committed suicide. The crime took place around 8:30 on Friday morning in front of the victim’s wife and his minor son. It was a woman …

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Gruesome finding in a gutter in downtown Athens: a sewage worker found a dead fetus in a pipe of the draining system on Solonos Street on Monday evening. The worker located the fetus via a camera while he was working under the building where the NGO Doctors Without Borders. He …

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Τhe victim of sex trafficking was taken to court for “prostitution without having the appropriate paperwork.” The 19-year-old young woman was kidnapped and forced to prostitution by a police offer who kept her imprisoned  in an apartment in Ilioupolis suburb of south-eastern Athens. The case came to light when the …

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Without any explanation the management of suburban train Proastiakos announced that people with disabilities will have to access to these trains as of February 19, 2024. The managing company “Hellenic Train” made the announcement not through its official website and social media accounts but through wall stickers. Next to disability …

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Police arrested a 27-year-old man in Zakynthos, western Greece, on Wednesday for beating his 19-year-old pregnant partner and forcibly given her drugs to terminate her pregnancy. The young woman was two months pregnant. The unprecedented incident took place on Tuesday evening, when the 27-year-old perpetrator, an Albanian national, went to …

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Greece’s main helpline for women who are victims of violence is at risk of being suspended due to bureaucratic obstacles, under-funding and indifference on the part of the government and the ministries in charge. Its operators staged a five-hour stoppage on Wednesday over the issue. Speaking to new website tvxs.gr, …

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The first same-sex couple to get married in Greece has already published their wedding notice on a newspaper as required by law and thus just hours after the Parliament passed the legislation late on Thursday. A legislation that was met with the resistance of a large part of the Greek …

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A 39-year-old Albanian national shot with a gun his 29-year-old Romanian wife in their home in Kaminia neighborhood of Heraklio, Crete, early Friday morning. The man called the police saying “Come, I killed my wife”, local media reported. Officers found the victim in the living room. A fight has allegedly …

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