The Health Ministry and the prosecutor against life crimes in Thessaloniki have ordered ordered an urgent investigation into the causes of the death of a 2.5-year-old girl at a municipality nursery of the city in northern Greece.. An employee at the Agios Stylianos nursery found the girl with severe breathing …
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Three Greeks, two foreigners arrested for sexual abuse of minor girl
Greek police arrested five more men linked to the sexual abuse and pimping of a 12-year-old girl from the Athens district of Kolonos. The suspects are three Greek men aged 65, 49 and 44 and two foreigners, Pakistani nationals, aged 50 and 23, media report citing police sources. Among the …
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Silver Alert: Elderly expats couple missing in SW Peloponnese
An elderly couple of expats has been missing in the last two weeks.The couple, David Harrison Robinson, 83 years old, and his wife, Lucretia Robinson, 80 years old, went missing from their home, in the area of Dapia Methonis, Pylos Nestoros in Messinia, south-west Peloponnese. A Silver Alter has been …
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Actor sentenced for two cases of attempted rape; free until appeal in court,
Well-known actor and director Petros Flippidis was sentenced to 8 years in jail on remand over two charges of attempted rape by an Athens Mixed Jury Court on Wednesday. He was unanimously acquitted for serial rape of a single person due to “doubts.” The court rejected mitigating circumstances, and released …
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Serres: 91-year-old man shoots daughter-in-law
A 91-year-old man shot with a fire gun his daughter-in-law, injuring her in the face. After the incident, the perpetrator was found dead in his home in Sintiki by his son. According to state broadcaster ERT, the man shot at his daughter-i- law with a Flaubert type shotgun. The 62-year-old …
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Father accused of raping his 4-year-old son
A 38-year-old man is accused of repeatedly raping his 4-year-old son and filming the acts with the help of the boy’s grandmother in a new case of sexual assault against a minor. The suspect is also facing charges of sexual acts with a minor under the age of 12, sexual …
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Church turned into classroom on Crete (video)
High school students in Herakleio, Crete, are forced to have lessons in a church, because there is not enough place, read: classroom, for them in the school building. The small chapel is located in the courtyard of Kapetanakeio school and has been converted into a classroom, since the school facilities …
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Landslide? School children cross swollen river walking on a wire bridge
These pictures with children crossing a make-shift bridge over a swollen river are not from some remote village in wild Nepal. These pictures with young students risking their lives walking on a hanging wire footbridge over the rushing waters of Evinos river are from Western Greece in January 2023. The …
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Femicide: Husband kills wife in their home in Piraeus
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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