December 12, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greece’s Supreme Court ordered a preliminary investigation into allegations by a 16-year-old Egyptian teenager boy who said he was tortured and raped by a group of fellow inmates at a migrant camp in Malakasa, north of Athens. The probe ordered on Thursday will seek to ascertain whether there is a …
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September 30, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 55-year-old taxi driver has been arrested for assaulting a 33-year-old transgender woman and her companion. The woman underwent surgery and has been hospitalized. The incident took place in central Athens early Thursday morning, September 26, 2024. According to the police report, the 33-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man hailed …
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September 5, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Two young men have been arrested in Rethymno, Crete, for the assault of a 36-year-old French tourist. The victim has sustained serious head and face injuries. The two arrestees belonged to a group of four young men in total who assaulted the French outside a bar in Rethymno in the …
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September 3, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Two men have been arrested in Herakleio, Crete, for the brutal assault of a Greek-Canadian man one and a half month earlier. The men, aged 31 and 32, have been hiding in unknown location all this time. They surrendered to a local police station on Monday afternoon and were immediately …
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July 18, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A tourist family was assaulted in a bar in Heraklio, Crete, by a group of young locals on Monday night. The family father has been hospitalized with head and face injuries. The 49-year-old Greek-Canadian man with origin from Anogia, his 41-year-old Icelandic wife, their two sons, aged 21 and 18 …
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July 3, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Ruling New Democracy lawmaker who served as minister of Mitsotakis government since 2019, Lefteris Avgenakis, was caught by security camera to get physical against an employee of the Athens International airport. Prior to the CCTV footage released on Wednesday, there was an official denouncement by the Athens Airport Employees union …
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June 19, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Α journalist reporting live from the wildfire in Vari-Koropi on Wednesday was brutally punched and beaten by three workers of a business on fire. The unprecedented incident against Frixos Drakondidis, reporter at protothema.gr took place in the yard of a Jet Ski business that was already engulfed by flames. The …
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November 21, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Police in downtown Athens has been set on alert in the last 48 hours after four incidents of sexual assault and attempted rape in broad daylight. Among the victims is a 13-year-old girl and three women in their 2o’s. Locals consider to set up “patrols” to protect women and minors. …
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August 18, 2023
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
UN peacekeepers on Friday were assaulted while trying to block the unauthorised construction of a road from the Turkish Cypriot side inside the buffer zone near Pyla, UNFICYP said. In an announcement, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) reported assaults against peacekeepers and damage to UN vehicles “by …
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March 11, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was brutally beaten with punches and kicks by a group of people wearing hoods outside a restaurant and ended up in a hospital with a fracture in the nose and a bruise under the eye on Friday night. Hours later and following scans and treatment, …
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February 1, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A 19-year-old man was stabbed and killed and two others were injured in an attack by five individuals in the early morning hours of Tuesday in Thessaloniki. Police attributes the assault to rival soccer fan clubs, media report. A 19-year-old victim was stabbed in the inner upper thigh and he …
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January 11, 2022
Very Mix
A professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business was assaulted by a group of unidentified assailants who were wearing hoods in an auditorium on Tuesday. The professor was in the middle of a lecture when the group attacked him with punches. When students attempted to intervene to stop …
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November 15, 2021
Social, Society
The Internal Affairs Department of the Greek Police arrested a 29-year-old police officer on Sunday for the sexual assault of his 4-year-old daughter. The arrest took place after his ex wife accused him of the crime and after the girl was examined by a pediatrist, a gynecologist and a child …
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January 19, 2021
Social
Two teenager boys, aged 15 and 17, accused of the brutal assault of a metro station were released form custody on Tuesday following deposition that lasted several hours. The two boys were released under strict bail terms including a supervision by a social workers. Each one has to pay 2,000 …
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July 27, 2018
animals
Animal rights activists were assaulted by locals and muleteers when they staged a protest against the abuse of donkeys on the island of Santorini on Friday. Two of the activists were taken to hospital, two more were slightly injured. One protester fainted. The incident took place took place in front …
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April 23, 2018
Politics, Refugees
The Hellenic League for Human Rights condemns the racist violent attacks against refugees and migrants on the island of Lesvos on Sunday. Expressing its particular concern, the HLHR said in a statement issued on Monday, the attacks ’cause dismay’, the ‘no arrests of perpetrators pose serious questions and requite further …
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April 30, 2015
Politics
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and his wife Danae became the target of a group of anarchists while they were dining with a friend at an Athens restaurant late Tuesday. A group of some 30 anarchists threw glass object at the couple, Varoufakis escaped injuries when his wife hugged him …
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December 22, 2014
Society
Austerity measures adopted in response to the economic crisis have adversely impacted human rights. The austerity measures traumatized the labor market and the healthcare system, fuelled a sharp increase in unemployment, triggered disastrous social effects, curtailed fundamental freedoms in Greece, denounce the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and its …
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January 28, 2014
Very Mix
A Greek court sentenced the Pakistani who brutally attacked a teenager girl on the island of Paros with life sentence and additionally 25 years imprisonment. The attack and sexual abuse of 15-year-old Myrto took place in 2012, when the girl had gone for a walk at the beach. The unconscious …
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June 7, 2012
Society
A reporter of Israeli daily Jerusalem Post got injured by masked cultprits while he was trying to film a mob attack outside tha National Archaeological Museum in downtown Athens. Injured in the head and the chest, Shefler was rushed to a hospital for treatment. Shefler reported that the incident lasted some 15 minutes …
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