January 8, 2019
weather
Athenians woke up on Tuesday morning to see the hills of Acropolis and Lycabetus dusted with fluffy snow. It doesn’t need a lot of snow to have the inhabitants of the Greek capital to rush to the streets and enjoy the rare phenomenon. Even if the white blanket is of …
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November 13, 2018
Greece, Politics
Police in Athens has detained three suspected neo-Nazis who were trying to hang two flags with swastikas at the building of the Athens Polytechnic School that will celebrate the anniversary of the Students’ Uprising against the junta, next week. The incident reportedly took place on Monday night. The two men …
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November 13, 2018
Very Mix
Special teams of anti-terror squads of Greek Police have defused an explosive device left outside the home of Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos in Vyronas suburb of Athens early Tuesday morning. The bomb was hidden in the trunk of a motorcycle parked outside the prosecutor’s home. Police rushed to …
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November 11, 2018
Sports
Touching moments took place on Sunday morning when participants at the 36. Marathon Race of Athens honored the victims and the survivors in Mati, the area with the most victims from the wildfires in July. Residents of Mati had flocked along the race track and greeted the athletes with black …
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November 6, 2018
Lifestyle
The Greek capital Athens has been proclaimed the European Capital of Innovation for 2018. In a special event organized in Lisbon, the Greek capital was declared the winner of the European Commission iCapital Awards. “The prize awarded Athens for its ability to harness innovation in order to improve the lives …
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November 1, 2018
Greece, Uncategorized
The first direct commercial flight from Athens International Airport to Skopje took off at 6:40 p.m. on Thursday evening. On board of the plane was the deputy Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bujar Osmanli. Osmanli had arrived earlier in Athens just for the purpose to inaugurate …
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October 31, 2018
Very Mix
A Greek-Australian businessman was shot and killed in Panorama Voula suburb of south Athens short before 9 o’ clock on Wednesday night. According to preliminary media reports, the man had just got in his car parked outside his home, when he got shot by unknown perpetrator or perpetrators. The man …
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October 30, 2018
Social
A passenger was slightly injured when unknown perpetrator or perpetrators attacked a public bus in one of the main roads of Athens, the Syggrou avenue. A little earlier, another bus was attacked in the suburb of Agioi Anargyroi in West Athens. The bus was at the height of Agios Sostis …
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October 29, 2018
Tourism
Metro passengers will not be able to reach the Athens International Airport directly from the city center but will need to change at <Doukissis Plakentias> station. The same is valid the other way around, that is from the Airport to the city. The measure will go into effect as of …
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October 29, 2018
Social
Six people were injured in a clash between Greeks and Albanians in Gerakas, East Attica, early Monday morning. The two groups met following calls on social media. Police suspects the clashes had to do with the shooting of the member of Greek minority in South Albania the previous day. One …
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October 28, 2018
Greece
Macedonia protests against the Prespes Agreement between Greece and FYROM were part of the official parade held in Thessaloniki to commemorate the Oxi Day, the historic day when Greece rejected the Italian invasion on 28. October 1940. “GREEKS SAVE MACEDONIA” was read on two placards held by children, when Members …
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October 21, 2018
Very Mix
Unknown perpetrators attacked the Canadian Embassy in Athens with sledgehammers and paint early Sunday morning. A group of some 10 people who were wearing hoods broke glass windows with sledgehammers, hurled black and red paint and fled. They left behind two sledgehammers. The attack took place at 6:10 a.m. According …
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October 18, 2018
environment
Urgent maintenance works on the construction and retaining walls channeling the river of Ilissos underground will disrupt the operation of the Athens Tram for an unspecified period of time. Starting on Friday, October 19th 2018, the Tram will no longer operate up to end station <Syntagma> but will halt at …
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October 16, 2018
Very Mix
Four police officers were injured when anarchists attacked the police station of Omonia in downtown Athens on Monday evening. It was around 9 o’ clock, when some 50 people wearing hoods and helmets started to throw stones and molotov cocktail bombs first at a police van and then at several …
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October 6, 2018
Very Mix
A robbery in a jewelry shop in one of the most vibrant avenues in downtown Athens takes place in early Friday evening. The three robbers wear hoods and enter the well-known shop at 7:30 p.m. An employee screams, a robber holds out to hit her. Two robbers fill bags they …
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October 5, 2018
Social
It was short before 4 0′ clock Friday afternoon when a man climbed up to a 15-meter high sculpture in Omonia Square in downtown Athens and threatened to jump. Fire Service and an ambulance rushed to the spot. One police negotiator was assigned to persuade the man to give up …
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October 3, 2018
Very Mix
The head of European Parliament information office in Athens has been suspended from duty amid an anti-fraud probe by the EU Anti-Fraud office OLAF. Together with Leonidas Andrikopoulos, suspended were reportedly also two other employees whose names and nationalities were not made public. The case was confirmed by Marjory van …
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October 2, 2018
animals
Marches for animal rights are been organized every year in many cities across the globe. This year’s march in Athens is scheduled on October 6th 2018. Below is a press release and a video we received by the organizers, the Ethos & Empathy organization: For the last couple of years, …
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September 27, 2018
Social
LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos may had managed to escape the worst from the fierce kicks by a jeweler and his friend last Friday, but he did not escape further abuse in the hands of policemen. The Ministry of Public Order and the Greek Police ordered on Friday disciplinary investigation …
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September 24, 2018
Very Mix
Foliage made of solid plastic has been ‘nicely’ decorating the fence in a part of a public Park in the center of Athens. Meter-long plastic leaves have been installed along the fence of the courtyard of the historical Oikonomidis building once the most prominent summer theater stages in the Greek …
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