WOW! What a lovely, sunny April Sunday! Time to go out, walk, jump and enjoy a lunch at the seaside!
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Donkeys abused to build luxury villas in Caldera (video)
Loaded with heavy building materials, donkeys try to find their balance, climb up and down the narrow cobblestone streets in the central square of Firostefani. The modern slaves are the only ones who can transport construction material for the luxury villas with view of the stunning Caldera. The institutional framework …
Read More »Police goes against peaceful Tempi Protesters with water cannons
Peaceful Tempi protesters returned outside the Greek Parliament on Friday afternoon, after the riots “moved” away from Syntagma Square. However, the peaceful protest, the second on the day, did not last long, as police tried to disperse the crowd with water cannons. 🔴 Απρόκλητη επίθεση της Αστυνομίας στις 16:15 με …
Read More »Inmate kills patient in Psychiatric hospital in western Athens
A 47-year-old man, who was hospitalized at the psychiatric hospital of Dafni in Haidari, western Athens, attacked and fatally injured a 44-year-old female patient. The man killed the woman with a piece of broken glass in the early morning hours of Wednesday. With his clothes soaked with blood, he went …
Read More »Tempi Prosecutor alleges her son was “victim of criminal act”
Just a few hours after the body of missing 39-year-old Vassilis Kalogirou was found in a remote area, his mother, a prosecutor investigating the Tempi tragedy, openly alleged that her son was the victim of a criminal act. In a shocking post on social media, mother Sofia Kalogiou, the Larissa …
Read More »Body discovered in remote Central Greece area; parents identify their missing son
The body of a male in advanced decomposition was discovered on a hill over the Pinios River in central Greece on Monday, February 17. According to preliminary information, there is strong evidence that the body belonged to 39-year-old man V. K. who went missing from Larissa on December 30, 2024. …
Read More »Pupils, students rally in Greece demanding “Justice” for Tempi victims
Thousands of students and pupils took to the streets of bit and small cities throughout Greece on Friday and rallied demanding “Justice” for the 57 victims of the Tempi train crash. In Athens, police detained 10 pupils for “preventive reasons.” In Athens, the protesters marched to the Parliament holding banners …
Read More »Thousands are fleeing Santorini due to ongoing seismic activity
Thousands of people, locals and visitors, have already fled or are still fleeing the island of Santorini after days of intense seismic activity have raised fears of an impending big earthquake and even a possible eruption of the volcano. Young and old with their cars are flocking to the port. …
Read More »Earthquake rattles with 4.5 R Athens although its epicenter in Evia
An earthquake rattled with a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale Greek capital Athens short before 6 o’ clock on Thursday. However its epicenter was 2 km north of Aliveri in Evia, some 50 km away. According to preliminary information, the earthquake hit at 17:55:26 and had a focal …
Read More »New pedestrian & cycle paths along Glyfada coastline
Part of the redevelopment of the coastal front of Glyfada, suburb of south Greek capital along the Athens Riviera, has been ready with a new 3.5-kilometre-long cycle path that has been added. Another 2.5-kilometre route will soon be completed. The Mayor of Glyfada George Papanikolaou stressed in a statement on …
Read More »Traffic restrictions again on a main Athens Avenue for a month
Traffic restrictions will be implemented on Panepistimiou Avenue, a major thoroughfare in downtown Athens Athens, starting Saturday and lasting for one month to accommodate roadwork, Greek police has announced. The restrictions, in effect from January 18 to February 18, 2025, will periodically block a 30-meter section of the road’s right-hand …
Read More »I started to work… Did I?
After a 3-week break due to ‘unexpected ‘circumstances’ …I started to work. I started to work? Not really. In the last three days I started to sit in front of the PC letting my eyes getting used again to the screen. It’s not easy and I kind of struggle to …
Read More »Major police operation, arrests after Turkish mafia shooting in Glyfada
A major police operation has been underway to bust criminal gangs set up by Turkish nationals in Athens and Thessaloniki. The operation follows the mafia-style shooting early Monday morning in Glyfada suburb of southern Athens that left behind two dead and one seriously injured. In the police operation, eight people …
Read More »Amazon invests in three new utility-scale wind farms in Greece
Amazon is investing in three new utility-scale wind farms in Greece, “our largest renewable energy deal in the country to date,” the company said in a press release. These wind farms will help match our electricity use in the region with carbon-free energy, while supporting Greece’s goal of transitioning to …
Read More »Weapons, explosives found in storage unit in Pangrati, central Athens
Greek police has found and seized an arsenal of firearms and explosives during a search of a storage unit in Pangrati neighborhood of central Athens late on Tuesday. The findings coincide timely with the bomb that exploded in an apartment of Ambelokipoi central Athens two weeks ago with one dead, …
Read More »Prisoners in Crete make wheelchair for paralyzed young lamb
Prisoners at the rural prison of Agia by Chania on the island of Crete took a heartwarming initiative and made a wooden wheelchair for a paralyzed young lamb. The young lamb was born with both hind legs paralyzed. The inmates who take care of the livestock facility in the prison …
Read More »Priest allegedly involved in mysterious disappearance of granny two years ago
A priest in a village on the island of Crete has been allegedly involved in the mysterious disappearance of a 75-year-old granny two years ago. 75-year-old S. T. disappeared without trace in the morning of September 22, 2022, from the village Alikianos near Chania. She was walking to her son’s …
Read More »Deposed SYRIZA-leader, Stefanos Kasselakis, candidates again for party leadership
With a video posted on social media, the deposed leader of SYRIZA, Stefanos Kasselakis, announced his candidacy for the new leadership of Greece’s main opposition party scheduled to take place next month. “I’m Stefanos.That’s it. We were born people, not ex officio,” Kasselakis starts his 4-minute long video in which …
Read More »Fire in Athens ISAP train: panicked passengers jump off (VID)
Dozens of passengers of Athens urban train ISAP panicked on Wednesday afternoon when the wagons were filled with smoke. The train stopped, passengers opened the doors with their own hands,got off jumping out of the wagons and started walking on the tracks and next to them to the nearest station. …
Read More »Motorcycle kills elderly tourist near Rethymno (shocking video)
Αn elderly tourist was ran over by a motorcycle early Monday morning as he was walking to a bus stop for the airport to return to his country from the island of Crete. The 75-year-old German national died on the spot and doctors in the hospital could only confirm his …
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