Tag Archives: Athens

ERT journalists and technicians are broadcasting live the 9 o’clock evening news program. The provisional studio in form of a table has been set up in the backyard of  the headquarters of the former Greek national broadcaster. The program with guests commenting on the riot police raid in the early …

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More than 15 riot police squads raided the building of former public broadcaster ERT at 4 a.m. Thursday morning. The raid took place five months after the overnight shut down of ERT on June 11th 2013.  ERT personnel was sacked. Journalists and technicians had been occupying ERT since then and …

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Members of public and private sector unions gathered in downtown Athens on Wednesday morning to protest the austerity policies of Greek government.  Unions have called for a nationwide general strike on November 6th ahead a new tsunami of wages and pensions cuts and lay-offs in the public administration. The protest …

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I tell you and I said this before: Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio until November 10th and you should be very well aware of this fact. Unpleasant incidents and ugly things can happen in the direction of disturbed communication. Bizarre arguments? Confused thinking? Unexpected aggression? Tilt in publishing, writing and …

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At least two men were killed and one was seriously injured during a shooting at the offices of extreme-right Golden Dawn in Neo Irakleio suburb of Athens on Friday evening. According to Greek media, the shots were fired by two people from a motorbike. One of the victims was immediately …

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The wonderful world of spying friends and foes is being unfolded with the NSA scandal, a world equipped with super modern surveillance units and lay light years away from the fictitious and exaggerated reports of Graham Greens’ local informants and spies. The NSA scandal reveals that US-friends have not only …

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What??? The biological parents of “blonde angel” Maria are not blonde? How could this happen? Can a geneticist explain how did a dark-haired and dark-skinned Roma woman give birth not to one but to two little blonde Gypsy angels? Or aren’t they “blonde angels” anymore? Now that it was DNA-proven …

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This Greek state never stops to surprises us. Units of Greek police and the National Organization for Medicines (EOF) raided the Metropolitan health clinic of Hellinikon (MKIE)on Thursday morning after an complaint to the Narcotic section of the police headquarters. “A complaint to Greek police claimed of uncontrolled drug trafficking …

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Former coalition government partner Fotis Kouvelis was taken to the hospital on Friday morning after fainting. the leader of Democratic Left (DIMAR) was at the airport to fly to Kavala, when he felt unease and fainted. He received first aid from paramedics in airport and he was transferred with ambulance …

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An arson attack against the political office of Marine Minister, Militadis Varvitsiotis (Nea Dimocratia), took place short before 8 o’clock on Wednesday evening in Athens. According to Greek media, a group of people wearing masks threw flammable liquid on the ground floor of the building where Varvitsiotis’ office is located …

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An Athens court ruled the work stoppage to be launched by metro and urban train workers was illegal. Therefore, the metro and the urban train ISAP will operate as usual on October 10th 2013. Workers at Athens Metro and Urban Train ISAP will launch a work stoppage from 11 a.m. …

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The judges spoke in the case Akis Tsochatzopoulos and the famous submarines bribes: the former Defense Minister of PASOK received a prison sentence of 20 years. The court imposed the highest sentence for money laundering cases. Tsochatzopoulos has to stay in prison at least seven years. He was arrested one …

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The president of the union of workers in “Sotiria” public hospital in Athens was reportedly caught red-handed with ‘marked’ bank notes. According to Greek media, the unionist had allegedly asked forty to fifty thousand euro from the hospital commander so that the union would refrain from protest strikes. An old …

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Athens bus public transport company fined a ticket dodger with C72 euro for failing to have a valid ticket of €1.20. When caught by ticket controllers, the 31-year-old woman claimed, she was long-term unemployed and she had no money to pay for the ticket. But in the country with 1.4 …

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Personnel at Athens Trolleys will be on work stoppage from 12 o’clock noon until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7th 2013, so that workers can attend a general meeting of their union. The collective bargain, hiring of more personnel,  free transfer for jobless passengers and more frequent schedules will be …

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An Athens Court found former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos guilty on all charges. According to the verdict on Monday morning, Tsochatzopoulos has been found guilty for the offense of money laundering from illegal activity and thus ‘by profession’. Akis Tsochatzopoulo, 74, has been found guilty of having received bribes in …

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It was short after 5 o’clock in the afternoon when Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos entered Korydallos prison in Athens. He faces charges of being the leader of a criminal organization.  In the same vehicle that entered Korydallos prison were GD MP Yiannis Lagos,  GD Nikaia branch head Giorgos Patelis …

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Greek authorities ordered Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos to remand in custody pending trial. After a marathon interrogation that lasted five hours, there was no release on bail for the ‘Greek Fuehrer’. Michaloliakos was taken from Evelpidon court back to police headquarters from where he is due to be transferred …

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“Why were the three Golden Dawn MPs released on bail and not remanded in custody?” This is the sole question puzzling Greeks and foreigners alike, while doubts are also being expresses on whether “the indictment was not watertight enough.” The decision to set three GD MPs free on bail on Wednesday …

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Greek media were surprised to see Ilias Kasidiaris walking out of the Supreme Court building this morning without comment. The Golden Dawn MP is notorious for his loud voice, insutlting comments and verbal attacks, where his hands get very active as well, like in the case where he punched a female KKE …

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