A baby girl in a stroller was abandoned in the courtyard of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens on Sunday morning. A resident of the Exarchia district was walking her dogs when she spotted the baby alone behind the palm trees. The woman informed the museum guard and he alerted …
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Shocking indifference: The double death of Roma girl Olga crashed by factory door(new video)
A new video from the tragic incident where an 8-year-old Roma girl was crashed by a sliding factory door in Keratsini shows a shocking behavior by 6 to 7 people towards a girl dying in front of their eyes. Footage from security camera broadcast by Star TV on Thursday evening …
Read More »UPD 8-year-old Roma girl crashed twice by factory door, left there for over an hour (videos)
An 8-year-old Roma girl found a tragic death when its body was crashed by an electric factory door in Keratsini suburb of Piraeus on Wednesday, November 17. Serious questions arise from the fact that the girl’s body was crashed twice by the metal door and its body remained there for …
Read More »Turkish police probes social media rumors that “Erdogan has died”
Turkish police has launched a legal probe into dozens of social media users for allegedly spreading the rumor that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has died. A relevant hashtag “he is apparently dead” #olmus in Turkish has been trending on Twitter since Wednesday morning bringing the fragile Turkish Lira into turbulence. …
Read More »Zak Kostopoulos: Trial begins three years after the brutal killing of LGBT activist
Three years after the brutal killing of LGBT activist Zak Kostopoulos, the trial finally began on Wednesday morning in Athens. Two businessmen and four police officers are being accused of fatal bodily harm of the 33-year-old Zak who was brutally beaten and died on a sidewalk in downtown Athens. The …
Read More »Passengers escape sunken bus in Athens. Prosecutor investigates (vid)
The public bus trapped under a bridge on the old Poseidonos Avenue in Athens Riviera remains stuck in the flood still 27 hours after the incident on Thursday noon. The water height is hardly down and thus only due to workers pumping water. A prosecutor ordered an investigation on Friday …
Read More »Schools in Attica, other regions closed on Oct 15, after shameful evacuation in Athens (videos)
After the unprecedented evacuation of students from a flooded school in western Athens, authorities decided to close all schools in region of Attica including Athens, Piraeus and suburbs on Friday, October 15, 2021, as stormy weather front Ballos is forecast to intensify. Afternoon and evening schools in the same areas …
Read More »Oldest footprints of pre-humans identified in Crete; dated over 6 million years
Footprints of pre-humans in fossilised beach sediments at Trachilos on the Greek island of Crete have now been dated by to 6.05 million years ago, the oldest known footprints of pre-humans. The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the Mediterranean island of Crete and are at least six …
Read More »Toddler “forgotten” in kindergarten bus; 5 arrested after parents file lawsuit
A 2-year-old toddler was left in a kindergarten school for over five hours in the seaside resort of Varkiza in south-eastern Athens. The girl’s parents filed a lawsuit against those in charge of the kindergarten, including the bus driver and those monitoring the children transfer. The child is thought to …
Read More »Anti-vaxxers protest in Athens: Religious fanatics, conspiracy theorists and neo-nazis
With Greek flags, religious symbols and chanting “Orthodoxy or Death” thousands of anti-vaxxers gathered at outside the Greek Parliament at Syntagma square on Sunday evening, in the first gathering of this kind after the summer vacations. The crowd, some 7,500 people, was a heterogeneous crowd of religious fanatics, extreme far-rights, …
Read More »Another femicide: Young man pushes girl friend to death on Folegandros rocky beach
A young man pushed his girl friend into death over a rocky slope of 30 meters on the island of Folegandros and ran away. He was arrested a day later. He confessed claiming that “the phase was foiled, it was the bad time.” The homicide, in fact another femicide in …
Read More »Athens mayor to revamp Syntagma Square, Panepistimiou Avenue again
Athens mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said that a project to revamp the lower, commercial end of Syntagma Square in downtown Athens is expected to start within August and will be followed shortly by “permanent” interventions on adjacent Panepistimiou Street. “When we talk about permanent work, we mean – to put it …
Read More »Violet Gigano: Causes of death heat stroke and exhaustion
Heat stroke and exhaustion are the causes for the death of the 29-year-old French tourist Violet Gigano, an autopsy has determined, state broadcaster ERT reported on Sunday. Authorities had ruled out criminal activity from the beginning, when they found her body, despite the advanced decomposition. The body of the woman …
Read More »Tragic end for French tourist Violet Gigano missing on Crete (UPD)
A tragic end for the missing French tourist Violet Gigano. Police officers participating in the big search operation found the body of the 29-year-old woman early Thursday afternoon. The body was found in a ravine near Cape Krios, southwest from Chania, and some 5 km away from Elafonisi. The area …
Read More »French tourist Violet Gigano, 29, missing; huge search operation in Chania
Authorities in the Prefecture of Chania on the island of Crete has launched a huge search operation to locate 29-year-old French tourist Gigano Violet who has been missing since June 24, the day she had last spoken with her family in France. She was planning to visit Elafonisi. Gigano’s rented …
Read More »Caroline’s family lawyer threatens media with “restraining order,” speaks of “cannibalism”
The family of slain Caroline Crouch is in outrage after they took their grandughter Lydia on their home on the island of Alonisos on Tuesday afternoon. They are surrounded by photo-reporters and television channels with the effect that grandmother Susanna cannot even bring the baby to the veranda. The family’s …
Read More »Retired priest kills kitten with metal stick; arrest on felony charges
Police has arrested a retired priest for killing a kitten with a metal stick and dumping it in a bag into a trash bin. The 88-year-old man known in the local community of Volos faces felony charges and an administrative fine of 30,000 euros. While in police station, the man …
Read More »Two more mafia-style shootings with two dead in less than 24 hours
A 39-year-old man was shot dead on Monday morning, in the second mafia-style shooting in broader Athens in less than 24 hours. He was shot several times in the middle of the road as he was heading to a gym in Vari, south-eastern Athens. The victim was a retired boxer. …
Read More »Body of missing 11-year-old girl found at rocky Chania beach
The body of a missing 11-year-old girl was found at a beach in Chania on Wednesday afternoon. A big search operation was launched after the girl was reported missing from the area of Makry Toixos on Tuesday. According to local media flashnews, the body was found at Agioi Apostoloi beach. …
Read More »ND MP on Joint Custody: “If a man beats wife, he can still be a good father”
“If a man beats his wife or abuse her and yet be a good father,” said MP from the ruling party ND, Yiannis Loverdos adding that “a child has the right to be raised by both parents” even in such a case. Loverdos made this incredible statement during a debate …
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