July 27, 2023
environment, FEATURED
A total of 594 fires broke out in Greece in 10 days, under heatwave conditions and with high-velocity winds, Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Wednesday. Of the 594 fires, 571 were put out before they spread. Five of them spread extensively to Dervenochoria, Corfu, Rhodes, …
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June 16, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Nine Egyptian men arrested as the suspected traffickers of the migrants on board the sunken fishing boat off Pylos were led before a public prosecutor in Kalamat late on Thursday and charged. They were given until Monday to prepare their testimony. The nine men are accused for forming a criminal …
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June 2, 2023
Social, Society
Greek Police arrested another eight men over the last two days involved in the rape of the 12-year-old girl in Colonos that was pimped by a neighbor. Seven men, 2 Greeks and 5 foreign nationals aged 20 to 52, were arrested on Thursday and were brought to prosecutor on Friday. …
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May 3, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
Authorities on the island of Mykonos arrested another five people on Wednesday for illegal construction works that alter the beaches and shores of the island. The arrests reportedly followed a complaint made by a resident in the area of Ornos that the construction was being carried out in front of …
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April 28, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Two years after the murder of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz on 9 April 2021, Greek Police have arrested two people with relations to the crime, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos announced on Friday. In a Facebook post, Minister Theodorikakos, and not the Police as usually in such cases, said that “police …
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April 27, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
Police has arrested two men for conducting illegal construction work inside an archaeological site at the western coast of the island of Mykonos. Police has reportedly said they detained on Wednesday afternoon a 21-year-old Egyptian and a 20-year-old Romanian national who were working in a plot of land where building …
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April 19, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Greek police has arrested seven people on the island of Crete for being members of an antiquities theft ring and seized ancient objects of estimated worth over one million euros. Among the objects the gang was planning to sell to an Italian national are seven stone coffins and vases from …
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March 29, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Greek Police has arrested dozens of people at an illegal “factory” of contraband cigarettes located in Lakkoma, Halkidiki. The factory had two full lines for the production, processing and standardization of cigarettes that were filled with tobacco imported from Bulgaria. The factory seems to have been in non-stop operation in …
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March 28, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Prime Minister’s office in Israel issued a press release late on Tuesday regarding the arrest of terrorists targeting Israeli targets in Greece. The Press release was issued on “behalf of the Mossad”, the National Intelligence Service in Israel, the PM’s office stressed. PM’s office press release In response to …
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March 28, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greece’s National Intelligence Service and the Anti-Terror Department of the Hellenic Police have dismantled a terrorists’ network that was preparing attacks in the country. According to an announcement by authorities on Tuesday afternoon, two foreigners were arrested. The building that the terrorists would target for their attack and cause the …
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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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