Tag Archives: anti-vaxxers

A court in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, sentenced a 59-year-old man, a self-proclaimed “national prosecutor” and “army general”, to 10 months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 500 euros. The man presented himself on social media as “national prosecutor” and a career military man with hunting rifles at his possession …

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The majority of anti-vaxxers in Greece refuse to get the vaccines against Covid-19 because they are force to to do, a recent public opinion poll has found. According to a survey by Focus Bari for YouGov.gr conducted December 21-31, 2021 on a sample of 1,002 people aged 18-74 vaccine reluctance …

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Anti-vaxxers have sent a fine order amounting almost 1.8 trillion euros was sent to the governor of South Aegean, Giorgos Hatzimarkos and members of the Regional Council. The payment order should be settled within 20 days, the document notes. The fine order was sent by the so-called “native indigenous Greeks”, …

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Extreme anti-vaxxers in Greece have gone out of control and threaten teachers with execution, while they claim they prepare paramilitary groups with the aim to take over the power in the country. At the same time, they threaten media with exorbitant fines if they report about their activities. They are …

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Parents opposing vaccination and the wearing of masks set a children’s book on fire to protest the measures against Covid-19. The unprecedented incident that reminds of “dark days” of our civilization took place in Halkida, the cpaital of the island of Evia, just 50 km away from Athens. The book …

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A public prosecutor in Athens is widening an inquiry into a group of anti-vaxxers calling itself the “Guardians of the Constitution,” who last week handcuffed and forced a school principal into a car in northern Greece. Prosecutors will investigate whether the activities of the group could support a charge of …

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An unprecedented incident initiated by a group of anti-vaxxers in central Macedonia took place on Friday morning: some ten people approached the principal of the high-school in Aiginio handcuffed him and forcibly pushed him into a car. They drove him around and in the end they took him to the …

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Greece’s police, finance and health authorities raided a shop run by anti-vaxxers in noble winter resort of Arachova, in south central Greece. The shop has been in operation since a month and a half and had the name “Ministry of Remedies.” The store was opened by a group calling themselves …

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A public prosecutor in Athens has pressed charges against 20 people spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic on internet and social media as well as inciting others to disobedience regarding protection measures. The Cuber-crime Division of the Greek police has submitted to the prosecutor two file cases on Friday, …

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Prosecutors in northern Greece investigate a family of anti-vaxxers but also monks on Mouth Athos opposing vaccinations. Authorities intervened after a father of six told media that he does not send his children to school due to the Covid-tests obligation and the masks. On Mt Athos, it was the abbot …

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The Greek Police Department for Prosecuting Electronic Crime announced on Tuesday that an ordered investigation had uncovered incriminating evidence on four websites and six social media accounts by coronavirus- and vaccination-deniers, who have been encouraging people not to get vaccinated and file lawsuits against doctors, teachers and police officers. According …

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Minister of Citizens’ Protection Takis Theodorikakos ordered an investigation into websites and social media accounts that spread fake information about the pandemic and offer fake legal advise to anti-vaxxers in exchange for money. The investigation order was sent to the head of the police’s Department for Electronic Crime, Vassilis Papakostas, …

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Αnti-vaxxers clashed with police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, outside the premises of Thessaloniki International Fair where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis delivered an important speech that included economic police measures. Hundreds of protesters against Covid-19 vaccination, among them also families with children, gathered in downtown Thessaloniki on Saturday afternoon. At some …

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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, …

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Anti-vaxxers in Greece have found a new way to make their attitude heard: they have started to verbally attack priests when the latter speak to congregation in favor of vaccinations against Covid-19. In just two days, two incidents occurred in Zakynthos and Thessaloniki where anti-vaxxers protested the priest shouting Shame! …

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Greek police detained more than five anti-vaccines protesters on Wednesday when the latter started to hurl bottles and other objects. Police responded with limited use of tear gas and water from a special police vehicle. The incidents started early evening when some 3,500 protesters who had gathered at Syntagma Square …

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Protesters against coronavirus measures and vaccines in Cyprus attacked television station SIGMA and torched cars outside the building in Nicosia on Sunday evening, the station said. So far, police arrested five people. Police confirmed the incident at Sigma TV and said around 2,500 protesters went to the network after a …

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