November 23, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
In a large operation at “Prosfygika” area in downtown Athens, Greek police arrested a total of seventy-eight people on Tuesday. Among the arrestees was a award-winning photojournalist and member of the Foreign Press Association, Nikos Pilos. He was covering the police operation and was arrested despite showing his camera and …
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October 31, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Police have arrested three suspects for the firing at a public bus with an airgun in Aspropyrgos, western Attica, on Sunday. Bus 866 Aspropyrgos-Agia Marina station was on the move on Sunday evening, when it was reportedly struck by bullets from a car with three men on it. One of …
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July 7, 2022
environment
Two men were arrested in connection with the wildfire in Kranidi that damaged also the luxury hotel Amanzoe, police announced on Tuesdays. Τhe two suspects, a Greek and an Albanian, were carrying out electrical work at a construction site nearby. A short circuit during the work caused the fire, local …
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February 14, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 21-year-old suspect turned himself to the authorities on Monday morning. He is 12th young man to be arrested in the murder case of 19-year-old Alkis Kambanos by football hooligans in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on February 1. The suspect, who has previously been identified by other suspects as “Dinos,” is …
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February 10, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Police on the island of Crete arrested seven people on Wednesday after investigation into dozens of deaths in a private nursing home in Chania and the horror living conditions of the elderly. Among the arrested are the 43-year-old owner and her mother, 68, two doctors and two nurses as well …
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December 13, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
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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December 12, 2021
Society, Very Mix
Thirteen people, most of them sales representatives and executives of a pharmaceutical company, have been arrested on suspicion of bribing doctors and illegally prescribing medicines. Sources told the state-run news agency amna on Friday, that police moved in after a months-long investigation that also involved the legal tapping of the …
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December 1, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The Internal Affairs Division of Greek Police has arrested 10 active police officers and believe another 24 involved into an illegal citizenship racket what has gained revenues estimated a total of 5 million euros. The arrests followed an investigation that lasted several months. the operation is considered the biggest ever …
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November 25, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A pharmacist, two police officers and eight members of the Armed forces are among those sixteen people arrested in Orestiada, north-eastern Greece, for bogus certificates of negative Rapid Tests essential for going to work and social activities. According to media reports, the pharmacist was supplying customers with fake certificates showing …
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October 23, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
Greek police shot dead an unarmed 20 year-old man and injured a 15-year-old teenager after a car chase in Perama,western Attica, early morning Saturday. Seven police officers involved in the shooting have been arrested for intentional homicide. A second teenager fled the scene. The driver and the two minor passengers …
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July 25, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greek police detained 25 people on Saturday evening after a protest rally against Covid-measures and mandatory vaccinations turned violent. Among the detained is one police officer. For four protesters detention turned to arrest. Some 2,500 protested gathered at Syntagma Square opposite the Parliament in downtown Athens on Saturday afternoon. About …
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April 20, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A foreign national was arrested by Greek police for supplying patient attendants in hospitals with fake certificates of negative Covid-19 molecular tests and rapid tests. The 31-year-old woman was selling the certificates for 10 euros, when a PCR test costs 60 and a rapid test 30 when carried out in …
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February 5, 2021
Very Mix
A Greek-led criminal network that used shell companies to steal over $12million from 50 US-based banks has been dismantled following a cross-border operation led by the Spanish National Police, the Europol and the US Secret Service. Operation SECRETO resulted in the arrest of 105 suspects and the freezing of 87 …
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November 27, 2020
Greece
Minister for Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis apologized on Friday for the arrest of nine women who staged a small peaceful rally at Syntagma Square in downtown Athens to mark the International Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. All women were wearing masks and kept social …
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October 22, 2020
Greece, Politics
The whole leadership of the neo-nazi Golden Dawn will go straight to jail, the Appeals Court in Athens ruled on Thursday. In its historic decision, the Court moved in total opposite direction of the prosecutor’s recommendations for suspended sentences and decided that 38 out of 50 GD convicts will not …
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September 21, 2020
Refugees
Six Afghan nationals were remanded in custody by order of a prosecutor on the island of Lesvos on Monday. They were arrested last week on charges of arson and participation in a criminal group, for the fire that destroyed the Moria refugee camp earlier in September. Four of the six …
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September 8, 2020
Very Mix
Greek police arrested a police special guard and his accomplice for a robbery against a car dealer. The 22-year-old police officer was recent hired for the corps of the Special Guards. The police officer had his 40-year-old accomplice had targeted a 37-year-old car dealer in the south suburbs of Athens …
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August 16, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Six business owners were arrested on the Ionian islands and fines worth several thousands euros were imposed because they operated their bars and restaurants beyond the midnight curfew. Among those arrested on Saturday, were two facility owners on the island of Corfu and one on Paxos. Each one was fined …
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June 17, 2020
Very Mix
Greek police arrested a man, a pseudo-doctor, as responsible for the death of three cancer patients. Among his victims were two children, aged 14 and 16, and a 76-year-old man. The man would falsely identify himself as a doctor, convince his victims or their relatives to interrupt the therapies. He …
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March 22, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The Greek government is preparing to impose tighter measures and a total lockdown even as of Sunday evening in order to contain the spread of coronavirus, media report. For one more weekend, many citizens did not comply with the restrictions and the Stay Home message that so far have been …
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