November 10, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A German and a Polish nationals wanted by Interpol were arrested in Greece and Italy. The two men were involved in serious fraud with a “pyramid scheme” that bought them profit over 28 million euros. A 60-year-old German man and a 49-year-old Polish man for whom Interpol had issued ‘red …
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November 2, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A famous Greek children books author has been arrested for possession of child pornography. The 53-year-old man was arrested already on October 18 and was remanded in the special prison for sexual offenders since then. The case became known today, November 2. The multi-awarded author V.P. was also the head …
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November 2, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
The “rapist with tattoo” of Palaio Faliro, a 45-year old Albanian national who fled to his home-country to escape arrest, was arrested by Albanian authorities and extradited to Greece in the early morning hours of Tuesday. After Greece issued an international arrest warrant, Albanian police located the man in his …
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November 1, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A Turkish citizen was arrested in Thessaloniki, in execution of a European warrant issued by German judicial authorities, on charges of participating in telephone fraud in Germany. Sources said the suspect is a 22-year-old man who has already been taken to the Appeals Prosecutor’s Office of Thessaloniki to initiate procedures …
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October 14, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
The public prosecutor in Athens on Friday brought felony charges against two policemen for the gang rape of a 19-year-old woman inside the police station of Omonia in downtown Athens. Charges of violation of the law on personal data were brought, too, the officers allegedly filmed the attack. It was …
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October 10, 2022
Social, Society
A 53-year-old who repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl and also operated as a pimp for the underage victim has been arrested in Kolonos district of Athens. His neighbors praised him as a “good and religious family man.” The man has a mini market store in the area and the girl …
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October 9, 2022
animals, FEATURED, News
A 67-year-old man was arrested on the island of Crete and fined with 15,600 euros for the torture of his dog with an electroshock collar. It was another resident of the area near Heraklio who filmed the dog’s abuse and denounced the incident to police. A video posted on social …
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October 2, 2022
Social, Society
Police in the city of Chania on the island of Crete arrested on Sunday one young Greek man for the rape of a tourist from Sweden. The 21-year-old victim filed a lawsuit and forensic examination confirmed her complaint. The arrestee is aged 23, while a second perpetrator who allegedly participated …
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September 12, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Three ferry services between the island of Thassos and Keramoti were cancelled on Sunday because the captain was drunk. He only allowed to undergo an alcohol test hours later, when he was sober. Three itineraries on Keramoti – Thassos ferry line did nor run after 11:30 on Sunday morning, September …
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August 28, 2022
animals, FEATURED, News
A 63-year-old man, the deputy mayor of Zitsa municipality in Epirus, was arrested on Sunday over unprecedented abuse of a donkey. The man dragged the donkey tied with a rope to the bed of his pick-up truck for almost one kilometer as the heavily injured young animal was bleeding and …
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August 25, 2022
Very Mix
Greek authorities arrested a 37-year-old foreign national with an outstanding European arrest warrant issued by German authorities. The arrest took place at the airport of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Wednesday. The man has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for e-mail and telephone fraud amounting to roughly 1.5 million euros. …
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August 16, 2022
environment
A man was detained as suspect for the big fire on the island of Thassos and quickly his detention turned into his arrest. There is strong evidence that the man is responsible not only for one but for two forest fires in the same area within a week. The 65-year-old …
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August 12, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A just 10-year-old boy was arrested for staring forest fires on the island of Lesvos. The underage arsonist told police that he was starting fires because he liked to watch firefighters putting them out. The boy admitted responsibility for two recent fires in small forests in the area of Agia …
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August 7, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 22-year-old Pakistani man was taken to Athens prosecutor on Saturday following his arrest for the murder of 17-year-old Nikoletta in Athens on Monday evening. The man had fled Athens and Greece after the crime and was arrested in neighboring North Macedonia on Friday. The man admitted the murder of …
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July 25, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Τhree foreign tourists stole a big Greek flag from its mast on a castle and wrote anti-Greek slogans. They were arrested by the authorities on the island of Rhodes. The three Dutch tourists in their early 20’s told authorities that they were drunk and did not understand what they were …
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June 24, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
One more femicide in Greece: A man stabbed his wife to death in their home in Koukaki district of Athens and called his son saying “I killed your mom,” in the early morning hours of Friday. The 53-year-old fled the crime scene and he was found later some 40 km …
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June 17, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A German national was arrested on the island of Kos in the early morning hours of Friday. Against the 30-year-old man there was an international arrest warrant for participating in a far-right extremist organization. German police officers had traveled to Greece to arrest him and th eoperation was carried out …
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June 10, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A huge blow to a cocaine trafficking ring in Thessaloniki ended with the arrest of four British nationals, who have been living in Greece for about one year. Police seized 300 kilos of cocaine shipped to Greece’s second largest port in a freight of bananas. The seizure of cocaine had …
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June 8, 2022
Politics, Refugees
Five human traffickers were arrested over the last two days and at least 20 migrants were prevented from entering the country at the Greek-Turkish border region of Evros, the Alexandroupolis and Orestiada police directorates in northern Greece said on Wednesday. The arrests were carried out in two separate instances, with …
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May 19, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A 47-year-old Chinese national was arrested on Wednesday for the murder of a 38-year-old Chinese woman, whose body had been found by police two years ago in a forest area in Kaza Villia, Attica, the Greek Police has announced. The body of the victim was found inside a suitcase on …
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