Tag Archives: Athens

Vandals have destroyed nine marble Jewish tombstones in the 3. Athens Cemetery in Nikaia on Friday night. The gravestones appear to have been kicked over and then smashed to pieces. A cemetery guard saw the destroyed graves and informed the police. “Antisemitism showed one of its faces,” general secretary for …

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A rally for the legalization of cannabis takes place in downtown Athens on Saturday. The Pan Hellenic Cannabis Rally is part of the “Global Marijuana March” campaign, that takes place simultaneously in 300 cities around the world. The rally slogan is “against the ban” of cannabis. The organizers in Greece …

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“Greece, Festival, Flavours” is a multilevel event, whose main objective is to showcase Greek food products (primary or processed) with the established quality as their common trait. To achieve this goal, it brings together the best small Greek producers in the atmospheric space of the Technopolis and gives visitors the …

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Greece has made an “enormous” reform effort since its debt crisis broke out and its international lenders must now grant the country debt relief, OECD chief Angel Gurria said while on a visit to Athens on Monday. Gurria, who met Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens, urged Greece to …

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An earthquake occurred ten minutes before Tuesday midnight 29 km North-East of Athens. Despite the moderate magnitude the tremor was felt all over the Attica prefecture due to a low depth. Initial measurements gave the magnitude as 3.8 R, it was later corrected to 4.2 and finally to 4.1 R. …

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Greece’s flagship privatization of the former Athens international airport in the area of Helliniko along the Athens Riviera has received a fresh blow after a group of citizens and  several legal entities appealed to Council of State demanding the revoke of the relevant presidential decree. The appeal is expected to …

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A 22-year-old student has reportedly confessed to be the mother of the newborn baby boy thrown away and left to die in the cold. Police took to interrogation the young mother on Tuesday afternoon. The woman has told police that that she gave birth in the bath tab of her …

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Creepy details about the death of the newborn baby boy found in the open space of a residential building in South Athens. According to the autopsy conducted on Monday, the baby boy was born alive, it was healthy and most probably died after being left for some 12 hours outdoors. …

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The body of a newborn was found in the empty space of a multi-story building in Nea Smyrni suburb of South Athens on Saturday afternoon. A resident of the building reportedly saw the body from the balcony. It was on a net set for birds. The newborn  had still the …

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Greek police cracked down a criminal gang cultivating cannabis and turned into expensive crystalline hemp in Athens. It is one of the biggest drugs trafficking gangs operating in Greece, its members are form Greece, Vietnam, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The financial benefits for the gang members estimated to …

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Eggs flew through the air and landed at riot police vehicles and furious anti-war protesters attempted to bring down the statue of  legendary US president Harry Truman near the American embassy in Athens on Monday. A group of protesters tried to cut the monument with chainsaws and bring it down …

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Thousands of Greek marched through downtown Athens and to the building of US embassy to protest US-led strikes in Syria on Saturday. The protest was organized by Communist Party KKE. The protesters chanted slogan anti-U.S. slogans but also against the NATO and the EU. Right in front of the embassy …

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The final touches are being added to the program for the first official visit of Prince Charles and  Duchess of Cornwall Camilla to Athens and Heraklio, Crete, scheduled to take place on May 9th and 10th 2018. The first day of the visit is very busy and involves several joint …

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More than 800 police officers will be withdrawn from the service of VIP persons and buildings and be deployed to Patrol Service on the streets, Minister for Citizens Protection, Nikos Toskas, announced on Thursday. The measure comes amid increasing crime in Athens and broader Attica and sharp criticisms by opposition …

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Tension and tear gas at the protest organized by teachers in downtown Athens on Friday. The marched through the city center and at one point a big crowd attempted to reach the prime ministry mansion. As expected, riot police did not let protesters prevail and fired tear gas to disperse …

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Retail shops in Athens will operate in extended opening hours due to the Easter Holidays. The extended working hours start Thursday, March 29th 2018 and end on Holy Saturday, April 7th. On Palm Sunday, April 1st, retail shops will be open. The general plan is as follows: On weekdays, Monday …

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A provocatively beautiful picture. A man with his cat in an Athens bus after midnight. The picture was shot by photographer Victoria Alex and posted on Facebook on March 18th. She wrote a few sentences to this awesome contact. Passengers in Athens buses after midnight may be born in June …

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An incident with one injured took place at the Iranian embassy in Psychiko suburb of North Athens at Wednesday noon. According to preliminary information by state broadcaster ERT TV, an unknown perpetrator injured one embassy employee with a knife. Two embassy employees reportedly went out to check a suspiciously behaving …

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Greek police has learned from an anarchists’  website on Tuesday night that an explosive device went off  behind the Evelpidon court building in Athens on Saturday. Police teams have found and are examining the bomb remnants. The bomb was reportedly placed at a guard’s post between Pedion to Areos Park …

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Workers at Trolley buses in Athens will hold a work stoppages on Wednesday, March 28th 2018, in order to attend the general assembly of their union. The work stoppage will start at 12 o’ clock noon and last until 5 p.m. As usual, the trolley buses will start withdraw form …

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