An Athens mixed jury court on Wednesday acquitted the two defendants in the trial for the murder of prominent journalist Giorgos Karaivaz, who was gunned down with 13 bullets outside his home in April 2021. The two defendants were arrested in April 2023 as street surveillance cameras located them in …
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Kidnapped victim of sex trafficking on trial
Τhe victim of sex trafficking was taken to court for “prostitution without having the appropriate paperwork.” The 19-year-old young woman was kidnapped and forced to prostitution by a police offer who kept her imprisoned in an apartment in Ilioupolis suburb of south-eastern Athens. The case came to light when the …
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Supreme Court prosecutor intervenes after cat abuser acquitted
The prosecutor of Greece’s supreme Court intervened after a First Instance court in Halkida acquitted a 30-year-old man who kicked a cat into the sea in last May. Prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos intervened to examine the correctness of the court on the island of Evia. The court’s reasoning for the acquittal …
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SIEMENS scandal: Court of Appeals acquits 20 Greek and German executives
The Five-Judge Court of Criminal Appeals fully acquitted 20 out of 22 people of money laundering charges in the context of the SIEMENS scandal in Greece. For most of the defendants, the prosecution was terminated due to the statute of limitations. The twenty people involved in the Siemens kickbacks case …
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Court acquits 13 defendants for deadly flash-floods in Mandra
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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Fixed Matches trial: All 28 football officials acquitted
The Court of Appeals unanimously acquitted all the 28 football officials who were tried for fixing certain football matches in 2012 and 2013. After many months of hearing, the court ruled on Thursday that there is no evidence for the two charges attributed to the defendants – alleging participation in …
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Local court acquits Metropolit Amvrosios over hate speech against gays
A court in Aigio acquitted Metropolit of Aigialia and Kalavryta Amvrosios of hate speech and opened the Pandoras’s box with some media to describe the decision as “shame” and many Greeks in social media to speak of “impunity” and a “parody” of a trial. In his testimony at the court, …
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Appeals court acquits anarchist Theofilou of armed robbery, terror organization charges
A five-member criminal appeals court ruled on Friday that Tasos Theofilou, serving 25 years in prison for armed robbery, was innocent of all charges. Theofilou had been in prison since his arrest over his alleged involvement in a deadly armed robbery at a branch of Alpha Bank on the island …
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Court acquits all defendants in Vatopedi Monastery land swap
With tears and applause the audience welcomed the decision of an Athens criminal court to acquit all 14 defendants charged in connection with a property swap between the Vatopedi Monastery in the Mount Athos monastic community in northern Greece and the Greek state. The abbot of the Vatopedi monastery, Ephraim, …
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Lagarde-List ex FinMin Papaconstantinou found guilty …just “a little”
He fell soft on a cloud pillow. A special court in Athens ruled that former Finance Minister Giorgos Papacontantinou had doctored the Lagarde List of suspected tax evaders but to a degree of misdemeanor. Papaconstantinou left the court with one-year suspended prison sentence. The original charge was on felony. With …
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Golden Dawn MP cleared over TV show punch to KKE lawmaker
Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris was cleared of charges for having slapped Communist MP Liana Kanelli during a live TV show back in 2012. A despicable act of violence that took place in front of the eyes of thousands of viewers. So how comes that the beater was acquitted of …
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Thessaloniki: Court acquits municipality workers, teacher over German consul attack
Dozens of unionists cheered the court announcement acquitting two municipality workers and one teacher over an incident against the German Consul Wolfgang Hoelsche-Obermaier, two weeks ago. The German Consul in Greece became target of angry municipality workers who had harassed and insulted and hurled coffee and water bottles at him. The three men were …
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