June 24, 2022
environment, FEATURED, Very Mix
Dangerous purple jellyfish, smart octopuses, sharks gone wild in Greece’s seas. Recent media reports and social media posts on various maritime issues in Greece has forced the Institute of Marine Protection “Archipelagos” to issue a press release with the aim of putting things right and to prevent citizens from reading …
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June 24, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A sailing boat sank in the sea between Oropos and Eretria after colliding with the local ferry Protoporos XIII on Friday morning. The only passenger on the sailing boat, a German national, fell into the water and was rescued by the ferry. The ferry transported the man to the port …
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June 23, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Greece’s National Public Health Care organization EODY announced on Thursday the third confirmed monkeypox case in the country. In a statement it added that testing on a further suspected case is ongoing. EODY stressed that all three confirmed cases are “imported”, that is that the patients were infected with the …
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June 23, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A court in Athens on Thursday handed down hefty prison sentences to eight individuals found guilty of contributing to the deaths of 25 people in the flash floods that inundated the town of Mandra in Attica in November 2017. All sentences have been suspended pending appeal. The court imposed prison …
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June 22, 2022
Very Mix
A young man in Thessaloniki proceeded with an extremely dangerous venture: he crossed the Ring Road with a skate, without wearing a helmet. He was moving in a very high speed, at about 90 km/hour, and at the same time h was making dangerous maneuvers between cars and trucks. According …
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June 20, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Search and Rescue operation continues south of Mykonos on Monday, as eight passengers on board of the sailing boat carrying migrants are still missing. Among the missing people are three children. Six human traffickers were arrested. According to local media, those people still missing are aged: 3, 8, 15, 23, …
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June 20, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 79-year-old man was blown into the sea by the turbine blast of an airplane landing at the airport of the island of Skiathos. The accident where the man, a pedestrian who was walking outside the airport fence, was blown into the sea occurred Sunday noon. “Alexandros Papadiamantis” airport on …
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June 19, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A big Search And Rescue operation has been launched by the Greek Coast Guard after it was alerted on a shipwreck with over 100 migrants on board of a sailing boat carrying them from Turkey to Europe via Greece. According to preliminary reports, there are injured passengers and at least …
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June 18, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The owner of a gas station in Gerakas, North-East Athens, was gunned down in a mafia-style execution with Kalashnikov weapons early Saturday morning. The 38-year-old victim arrived with a bulletproof BMW at his gas station on Marathonas avenue around 8 o’clock in the morning. When he got out of the …
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June 17, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Six people charged with the beating death of US citizen Bakari Henderson at Laganas on the island of Zakynthos in July 2017 were found guilty by a second-level court on Friday. Five defendants were found guilty of intended fatal bodily harm, and one was found guilty of fatal bodily harm. …
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June 17, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A German national was arrested on the island of Kos in the early morning hours of Friday. Against the 30-year-old man there was an international arrest warrant for participating in a far-right extremist organization. German police officers had traveled to Greece to arrest him and th eoperation was carried out …
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June 16, 2022
Society, Very Mix
After judicial procedures that lasted one and a half year, a court in Athens acquitted 13 out of 21 defendants for the deadly flash floods in Mandra, west Attica, in November 2017, where 24 people lost their lives. The three-member criminal court acquitted former regional governor Rena Dourou (SYRIZA) and …
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June 13, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A second case of monkeypox was announced by health authorities as first tests showed the man positive with non-veriola orthopox viruses to which belong also the monkeypox. According to health authorities, more tests are needed to confirm he is infected with the monkeypox and for this purpose samples have been …
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June 10, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A huge blow to a cocaine trafficking ring in Thessaloniki ended with the arrest of four British nationals, who have been living in Greece for about one year. Police seized 300 kilos of cocaine shipped to Greece’s second largest port in a freight of bananas. The seizure of cocaine had …
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June 10, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A total of 308 reported incidents of abusive targeting of young people and other vulnerable groups by officers of the law due to their national, ethnic or racial origin are noted in the Greek Ombudsman’s 2021 report that was released on Thursday. The independent authority, which also operates as the …
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June 8, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Greece, national health care organization EODY announced late on Wednesday. Infected with the virus is a man with a recent trip to Portugal, health authorities said.. The patient is 49-years-old and returned from Portugal 15 days ago, ANT1 TV reported Thursday …
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June 8, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A abbot shot and injured a 45-year-old man when the latter asked to be paid for works at the monastery in Oinoi, north-western Attica. The perpetrator was arrested and so was his victim as the first had filed a lawsuit against him. The 45-year-old man had gone to the monastery …
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June 8, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greece’s government is accelerating changes in the health care system and the relevant decisions for the new scheme of “personal doctor” with all possible details are expected to be published by June 15. With the new system, patients insured at the public health care system are at risk to get …
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June 3, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Greece’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority has seized the entire inheritance of Giorgos Tragkas, a prominent Greek journalist, small media owner, published, TV and radio producer, who died in December 2021 from Covid-complications. In a 60-page report, the Authority came to the conclusion that the source of the assets he owned might …
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May 27, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Over 44 people were evacuated, eleven people have been rushed to hospitals and two have been intubated after a big fire broke out in the building housing the Thessaloniki Chamber of Industry, on Aristotelous Square in the center of the city in northern Greece. The fire broke out short before …
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