March 12, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Four police officers were arrested Saturday for allegedly beating and torturing a detainee. The arrests were made by Greek police’s Internal Affairs Division. The arrested, a higher officer, two lower-ranking policemen and a member of the Special Guard unit were responsible for guarding and transferring detainees. The victim, either a …
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March 9, 2023
Society, Very Mix
A 57-year-old Spanish national was arrested at Athens international airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” on charges of helping four Cuban nationals leave Greece using stolen travel documents. The four Cubans were also arrested. The Spanish man was charged with possessing the travel documents of a third party, the attempt and the act …
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February 15, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Greek police arrested five more men linked to the sexual abuse and pimping of a 12-year-old girl from the Athens district of Kolonos. The suspects are three Greek men aged 65, 49 and 44 and two foreigners, Pakistani nationals, aged 50 and 23, media report citing police sources. Among the …
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January 25, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Police officers have arrested a Russian national in northern Greece for having sent threatening e-mails to Athens International Airport and six public hospitals in the Greek capital a day earlier. The 42-year-old Russian man was arrested in Thessaloniki in the early hours of this Wednesday by officers of the Sub-Directorate …
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October 18, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A police major operation at Greece’s Krystallopigi border control check point at the border with Albania has led in the arrest of at least 14 people: seven police and customs officers and seven civilians of Albanian nationality. the operation of the Internal Affairs Unit of the Greek police followed a …
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September 9, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Two hotel owners alleged to be involved in a human trafficking ring that brought migrants from Turkey to Greece were arrested on Friday by Police on the island of Rhodes, with the assistance of the Protection of the Sea Borders Security Directorate, the police of the Dodecanese and the EUROPOL. …
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August 23, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The two Cretan men sought in connection with an assault on three German tourists in Rethymno, Crete, last week have been located and detained, the Greek police announced on Tuesday. One was taken into custody on the basis of a warrant for his arrest and the second will be brought …
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December 22, 2021
Social, Society
Former co-host of popular Radio Arvyla TV show, Stathis Panagiotopoulos was arrested on Wednesday after more victims of “revenge porn” publications filed complaints.Panagiotopoulos surrendered himself to the Police Devision for Cyber Crime in the afternoon, after a public prosecutor issued an arrest order against him. Panagiotopoulos is expected to remain …
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April 29, 2021
Very Mix
A TV host and publisher has been been initially detained by police and later arrested and is accused for faking an armed attack at his own house after police withdrew protection he received as a private citizen. There have been also allegations of having taken out a contract on the …
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March 21, 2021
Archeology, Culture
A man has been arrested on suspicion of antiquities smuggling for trying to sell an ancient marble statue of “exceptional artwork” that once likely adorned a temple on Athens’ famed Acropolis or the slopes around it, Greek authorities said Friday. Police said the 5th century B.C. statue was recovered following …
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January 25, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A 27-year-old man was hit and injured by an avalanche and in addition was fined with 300 euros and arrested for illegally skiing at a ski resort closed due to lockdown restrictions in Greece. Together with three friends the young man climbed in Vasilitsa by Grevena in western Macedonia on …
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September 15, 2020
Politics, Refugees
Six foreign nationals have been arrested as suspects for the fires that destroyed the refugees camp in Moria a week ago. Five were first arrested and the last member of the group, who was at large, was arrested on Tuesday evening. Short after the six arrests, a video allegedly shot …
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April 25, 2020
Refugees
Greek police has arrested five migrants who had left a reception and accommodation center placed under quarantine due to confirmed cases of coronavirus. The migrants were arrested at the metro station <Stathmos Larissis> on Friday and were reportedly about to get on broad on a train. Following their arrest, the …
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March 21, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The Bishop of Kythera Seraphim was arrested on Saturday for having opened a church and held a mass in presence of a crowd of people, despite a relevant ban and other lockdown measures imposed by the Greek government to contain the spread. The Bishop had expressed his objection to the …
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January 17, 2020
Very Mix
A passenger on a flight from Germany to Greece has been arrested for having a smoke in the plane’s toilette. The passenger is a 32-year-old Greek-born man with German citizenship. He lit a cigarette in the toilet of a Ryanair flight from Baden-Baden airport in South Germany to Thessaloniki in …
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September 23, 2019
Greece
Greek police has arrested a photojournalist who was covering the evacuation of a squat housing refugees and migrants in Exarchia district of Athens on Monday. Photojournalist of daily Efymerida Ton Syntakton, Alexandros Stamatiou, was handcuffed and taken to the Headquarters of the Greek Police. Police has filed against Stamatiou for …
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April 20, 2019
Very Mix
Prominent criminal lawyers Alexandros Lykourezos and Theodoros Panagopoulos have been arrested at the orders of the examining magistrate in relation to the the so-called “Korydallos prison mafia” case. Lykoyrezos was arrested Thursday evening and Panagopoulos on Friday morning. The remain in custody until Monday where they are expected to testify …
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April 5, 2019
Very Mix
Greek police arrested a 31-year-old Bulgarian national as main suspect for the assassination of Greek-Australian businessman John Macris – Yannis Makris -. It was a clothes receipts that helped police identify the suspect. The Task Force of the Greek Police assigned to investigate the murder of Yannis Makris on 31. …
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February 15, 2019
Economy
Greek police arrested well-known shipowner Alexandros Agoudimos on Thursday night for debts to the state, media report. The ship-owner was driving on an avenue in Piraeus, when members of the motorcycled DIAS teams stopped him for what it seemed a routine control. Policemen found out that he was convicted for …
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October 26, 2018
Greece
Two police officers were arrested for being involved in migrants’ trafficking helping migrant to cross from Turkey into Greece via the Evros river. It is the second case in a week where policemen are accused of such illegal actions. The two officers were arrested in Soulfi, North East Greece on …
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