June 27, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
With a week delay, prosecutors have charged eight adult Kazakh nationals who were passengers on the chartered yacht suspected to have started the fire in the forest of the island of Hydra last Friday. The charges are “complicity in arson”. Two minors, aged 14 and 17, who were also on …
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June 27, 2024
Economy, FEATURED
The three-member Court of Criminal Appeals imposed sentences ranging from 10 to 17 years in prison on three members of the Koutsolioutsos family and two of their associates who were found guilty of falsifying the financial data of Folli Follie. The court imposed the longest sentence on the founder of …
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June 27, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 53-year-old French man was killed and his wife was critically injured in a road accident on Thursday in the Chania area of Crete, where the couple were on holiday. The rented car the man was driving was involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle at the exit of …
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June 27, 2024
FEATURED, Tourism
The General Secretariat of Civil Protection declared the island of Leros in the Dodecanese in a “state of emergency” due to the occurrence of water shortage phenomena. The state of emergency is valid for one month. In the decision, signed by the General Secretary of Civil Protection, Vassilis Papageorgiou, it …
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June 27, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
One police officer was injured and a patrol car went on fire outside the residence of the President of the Supreme Court when a group of unknown individuals hurled petrol bombs in the early morning hours of Thursday. The police officer suffered injuries on his face and hands and was …
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June 26, 2024
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Camping tents covered one of the most beautiful beaches in Evia over the long weekend, annoying the local residents who strongly reacted to what they called a “health bomb” and a “garbage dump.” The images became public and caused an outrage. Hundreds of tents were set up along the Thapsa …
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June 26, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
A journalist at state broadcaster ERT has been arrested for brutally beating his partner, also a journalist in the same facility. The victim sustained facial fractures and reported the perpetrator to police after she visited the hospital. According to media information, the beating took place on Sunday night. The next …
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June 26, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A meeting right from the Hollywood playbook: Top mafia ‘executives’ from several Russian-speaking countries held their annual “convention” in Athens on Tuesday, June 26, 2024. Too bad that somebody gave a tip to Greek police a few days earlier, and the 15 participants were detained in downtown Athens late on …
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June 25, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The sudden death of a historic newspaper of the Greek Left, of daily Avgi, was announced on Tuesday. The newspaper politically affiliated with SYRIZA and its predecessor will operate only as Sunday newspaper. The decision was announced to Avgi employees by the Board of Directors of the company that publishes …
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June 25, 2024
Economy, FEATURED
The Greek government has threatened banks with state intervention unless they reduce the fees they charge to clients for various banking activities. Speaking on Tuesday at the annual general assembly of the Hellenic Banks Association, Minister of National Economy and Finance Kostis Hatzidakis pointed out that the non-settlement of the …
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June 25, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A court of appeals in Tirana on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Fredi Beleri, the mayor-elect of the ethnic Greek city of Himare and an elected MEP with New Democracy for Greece. Under the court’s ruling, Beleri will have to stay in prison until October, following his conviction earlier this …
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June 25, 2024
FEATURED, weather
The City of Athens has taken measures to enable citizens and vulnerable groups to cope with high temperatures and heatwaves, to protect parks and forests from fires and to help strays survive the hot days. As of Tuesday, June 25, 2024, the municipality of Athens opens up air-conditioned spaces, provides …
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June 25, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
Greek police made 61 arrests on Sunday, of which approximately half were in Attica, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis said on Tuesday in an interview with the ERTnews TV, referring to the issue of domestic violence. In addition, Chrisochoidis emphasised that there have been 550 incidents of domestic violence over …
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June 25, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“Greece does not accept recommendations on how to exercise its policy and protect its national interests,” diplomatic sources stressed on Tuesday, in response to Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan statements that “Cyprus, Greece should ‘stay away’ from Middle East matters.” “During the Middle East crisis, Greece has maintained a stance …
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June 24, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The captain and the 12 crew members of luxury yacht Persephoni I from which fireworks were allegedly were thrown and sparked a forest fire on the island of Hydra on Friday night have been arrested. They were arrested after the yacht docked in the Athens Riviera on Saturday noon. The …
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June 24, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 67-year-old German hiker who was reported missing on Sunday in Crete has been found dead on Monday. The man was spending vacations with his wife who also alerted authorities about her missing husband. The man’s body was found in a inaccessible area, in a ravine near Sentoni beach, on …
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June 22, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Anger and outrage on the island of Hydra against people on a luxury yacht who fired fireworks on Friday night and caused a big fire in a rare forest area of the island. The fire broke out in the only pine tree forest of Hydra in an inaccessible area near …
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June 21, 2024
environment, FEATURED
A 55-year-old man has died while he was assisting firefighters to extinguish a wildfire in the village Myrtia, Peloponnese, one of the many in central and southern Greece on Friday. It is suggested that the man have died of strong smoke inhalation, an autopsy will determine the exact causes of …
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June 21, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
One more femicide in Greece: An 81-year-old man murdered his 73-year-old wife with a screwdriver in Alexandroupolis, north-eastern Greece on Friday morning. Following the crime, he attempted to commit suicide by drinking bleach. According to local media, neighbors saw the man on the balcony shouting “I killed my wife!” They …
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June 20, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
Greece’s Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis announced 13 of amendments and additional provisions aiming at tackling a rising social problems as the number of domestic violence incidents have been increasing on daily basis. The new laws do not increase sentences to offenders, however, it tightens provisions for the pre-trial period. 1,000 …
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