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The fires in the Magnisia Prefecture in Central Greece claimed the lives of two people on Wednesday. Firefighters recovered the body of a man which they found in a burned forest short before 8 o’ clock in the evening. The man is believed to be a 46-year-old missing shepherd who …

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A municipality worker died of heatstroke while on duty on Sunday, the hottest day of 2023, so far. His employers knew that he had multiple health problems, belonged to a high risk group and he should not work outdoors during the heatwave. The 49-year-old man had to open a playground …

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Α 46-year-old man from Halkida has suffered a heatstroke and died after he was making deliveries for a local tavern at the peak of the heat, He is possibly the first victim of the heatwave that hits Greece since last week. The victim of a heatstroke was admitted to Halkida …

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Femicide in Evia:An 88-year-old man shot and killed his 84-year-old wife on Friday. “I didn’t have a good time with her, I got fed up and killed her,” the elderly perpetrator reportedly told police. he had killed his wife in the head with a double-barreled rifle, while the victim was …

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A trans woman who migrated to Greece from Cuba a few years ago was found to have been brutally murdered in her Athens apartment on Monday afternoon. The body of the 46-year-old woman, named Anna Ivankova, was found by her landlord in Agios Paneleimonas district of Athens. Preliminary autopsy detected …

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans to legalize same-sex marriage, a huge step forward for LGBTQ rights in a region where some conservative governments are cracking down on the community. “Same-sex marriage will happen at some point and it’s part of our strategy,” Mitsotakis, a center-right politician, said Tuesday in …

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A 20-year-old student of the Military Academy died during a military education exercise at the “Unorthodox War Training Center” in Redina, northern Greece, the Greek Army General Staff announced on Friday. The announcement pointed out that the 20-year-old initially lost consciousness during the training and then, after first aid was …

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Police on the island of Rhodes arrested 23-year-old local man  who is accused of the rape of a 20-year-old Irish woman in Faliraki on Monday. The 23-year-old was arrested on Wednesday noon by police officers who were handling the case, after the complaint of the young tourist. According to what …

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An injured child was transferred from hospital to hospital for several hours until a CT scanner was found to examine the cause of ears bleeding. This unbelievable incident took place in Greece’s second big city Thessaloniki on Sunday. A 6-year-old boy suffered a head injury after he fell with with …

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A former children’s basketball coach who was convicted in 2013 to 401 years in prison for sexually abusing 36 minors but was released earlier this year after having served just 12 years, has been taken back into custody. Nikos Seiragakis, 59, was arrested in the Athens suburb of Nea Ionia …

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A three-judge Juvenile Court in Athens convicted eight teenager boys over the gang-rape of a 15-year-old schoolmate in Ilion suburb of western Athens in December 2022. The court acquitted the four girls who were tried with their peers and who had allegedly witnessed the abuse. In a closed-door session, the …

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Surgeons removed a huge hairball weighing 700 grams from the stomach of a 14-year old girl at a private hospital in Thessaloniki last month. In psychiatry eating hair is described as the Rapunzel syndrome. The girl was brought in suffering from pain in the abdomen and examined by a paediatric …

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A 63-year-old woman, a cruise tourist, died in Ouranoupolis, Halkidiki, when she fainted during lunch in a taverna and the ambulance need 1.15 hour to get there and provide essential aid. It is the third death in Greece due to ambulance delay since Sunday. The woman lost consciousness while in …

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Babis Anagnostoppoulos, the convicted husband of murdered Caroline Crouch, announced through his lawyer on Wednesday that the waives the appeal he had filed for a more favorable sentence. At First Instance court he was sentenced to life plus 11.5 years and a 21,000-euro fine for the brutal murder of his …

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A 19-year-old pregnant woman has died on Tuesday morning while waiting for an ambulance. Both the mother in the 8th month of pregnancy and her unborn baby left their last breathe in Nea Makri, eastern Attica, just 37 km away from the center of Capital Athens. Her relatives claim that …

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A 63-year-old woman died on the back of a farm pick up truck on the way to the Kos hospital as there was no ambulance to take her there. The woman was attending the birthday party of her granddaughter when she collapsed on Sunday, June 4. Her family called the …

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A 36-year-old woman was stabbed 14 tines by her fiance who then attempted to take his own life, after the stabbing and fire he put in their apartment. Both victim and perpetrator are hospitalized in Heraklio, Crete, where also the brutal incident took place on Sunday evening. The woman suffered …

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Greek Police arrested another eight men over the last two days involved in the rape of the 12-year-old girl in Colonos that was pimped by a neighbor. Seven men, 2 Greeks and 5 foreign nationals aged 20 to 52, were arrested on Thursday and were brought to prosecutor on Friday. …

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Matricide in northern Greece: A 61-year-old man has been arrested for the alleged murder of his 86-year-old mother. The man allegedly killed his elderly mother in her home in Kozani, western Macedonia on Monday. He called the ambulance service claiming that he had found that his mother had passed out. …

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A 36-year-old man shot and killed his 39-year-old wife and then put an end in his own life in Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece on Monday morning. The tragedy took place in the couple’s home and in front their 8-year-old child that suffered injuries. With injuries in the eyes, the …

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