January 17, 2013
Society
Police arrested two Greeks suspected of stabbing to death a Pakistani man a couple of hours earlier. One of the suspects is a firefighter, according to a statement issued by police on Thursday. The incident occurred at 3 o’clock in the morning, when the victim, 27, was riding his bicycle in …
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January 17, 2013
Tourism
Hollywood star Jodie Foster revealed, she happened to be in Athens during anti-austerity protests and riots while the air was filled with tear gas. Speaking to Greek Reporter she described, how she was watching the incidents from a Syntagma hotel together with her children. Jodie Foster said also, she was …
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January 17, 2013
Society
Workers at Athens Metro, urban train ISAP (HSAP) and tram will launch a 24-hour strike on Friday, January 18th 2013. For the Metro it will be the second consequent strike day. Workers demand to be exempted from the new collective payroll for civil servants. However Minister of Development rejected their demands. …
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January 16, 2013
Politics
Police units on motorcycles DIAS found a hand grenade at 3:15 Wednesday afternoon laying on the pavement at the corner of Piraios and Persefonis streets in Gazi district of Athens. Anti-terror but also an army unit have rushed to the spot, Greek media reported. Part of the Piraios street is …
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January 15, 2013
Society
Workers at Athens metro will launch a 24-hour strike on Thursday, January 17th 2012. No metro line will operate from 05:30 a.m. until half an hour after midnight. Workers protest the new payroll that cancels the national collective bargain. For transport to and from the airport, passengers can use the …
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January 15, 2013
Politics, Society
Strong police forces entered the squat in Kypseli district of Athens at 1 p.m. on Tuesday and detained the eight women and the six men who were inside the building at the time of police intervention. The deployment on riot police squads was aiming to prevent expressions of solidarity by other anti-authoritarian …
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January 14, 2013
Economy
Finally a good news! Trading firewood is a business that experiences a rapid growth in recession-hit Greece. Tax increases in heating oil and natural gas have led to sharp decrease but to sharp increase of firewood. According to data released from Athens Chamber of Commerce, the number of enterprises trading …
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January 14, 2013
Politics
Greek police arrested a policeman who was ‘following’ Panos Kammenos, leader of nationalist party “Independent Greeks”. According to media reports, Kammenos sought the aid of police after his personal security men realized a man on a motorcycle was following his car when he left his home to go to the …
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January 14, 2013
Politics
Unknown assailants fired shots with a Kalashnikov rifle at the headquarters of government party Nea Dimocratia. The assault was so bold that even “a bullet was found in the office of ND leader and Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras”, so the police and the media. The attack took place at 3 …
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January 13, 2013
Politics
Who will be the next target of arsonists? this must be the question puzzling officers of Greek police after barrage of self-made gas bombs exploding outside the homes of journalists, government party officers and banks ATMs. The latest target was the brother of government spokesman Simon Kedikoglou. Short before midnight on Saturday, unknown …
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January 11, 2013
Politics
UPDATE: an organization that appears for the firt time claimed responsibility for the attacks. In a statement uploaded in athens-indimedia, the organization calling itsself “Cycles of violators/Cell of lawlessness lovers” claimed responsibility on Friday evening. Statement here but in Greek. Self-made devices exploded outside the homes of five well-known journalists …
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January 10, 2013
Society
Only 15 homeless took advantage of the three heated halls offered by the Municipality of Athens during the most freezing days and nights of this winter that occurred this week. And this even the number of homeless in the Greek capital has dramatically increased due to the economic crisis. “The low …
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January 9, 2013
Society
Greek police started a new operation on Wednesday noon to empty the Skaramangas building from squatters. The operation started at 3:15 p.m. in Patision/Skaramanga street, opposite the National Archaeological Museum and the Polytechnic School. According to Greek media, some of hundreds of anti-authoritarians have set barricades on Stournari street. The …
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January 9, 2013
Politics, Society
The day started with an operation of riot police detaining 101 anti-authoritarians who had re-occupied the building called “Villa Amalia” in downtown Athens. While the building was under police guarding, occupiers were divided in two groups: one group distracted police’ attention, while the other broke the padlocks and entered the …
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January 7, 2013
Economy, Society
I didn’t know Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras had such a bitting sense of arrogance. On Monday, January 7th 2013, he called on Greeks to be patient for another year.” At the same time he dismissed suggestions by coalition government and opposition parties that heating oil subsidy might be extended to …
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January 7, 2013
Society
Workers at Athens Metro occupied the Metro depot at Sepolia suburb of north-eastern Athens, causing problems to thousands of passengers on Monday morning using Line 2 Agios Dimitrios-Agios Antonios. The occupation started at 2 o clock in the morning with the effect that a number of metro trains could not leave the depot …
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January 3, 2013
Economy
A mounting debt of 9 million euro to Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA led to the arrest of businessman Andreas Kouris, head of Real Media company the publishes a newspaper and has a radio station. The arrest is due to older debts of television channel ALTER that closed two years ago …
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January 3, 2013
Economy, Society
That is the measure that successfully ..backfired: Greek households freeze and the state is looking after the revenues it did not manage collect. With Greeks vehemently refusing to buy heating oil, punishing the state for the tax increase and triggering black holes in the targeted revenues. Greek media report that only 2 out …
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December 31, 2012
Society
Workers at Athens Metro and urban train ISAP (HSAP) will launch a 24-hour strike on January 1st 2013. Workers oppose wages cuts, personnel transfer and lay offs. It’s the first strike of the new troubled year 2013.
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December 27, 2012
Very Mix
Although Santa is traditionally expected in Greece in the night of New Year’s Eve, Americans captured him passing by the Acropolis in Athens and the island of Santorini and thus in the night of the Christmas Eve. With a sleight full of presents and his famous reindeer. Video: norad.org embedded by Embedded …
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