Tag Archives: Attica

Greek police has proceeded to one arrest and 17 detentions of people looting and suspected for looting homes in the fire-affected areas of north-eastern Attica. Among the detainees were 10 members of the Roma community, while another Roman man was arrested in Penteli suburb on Thursday, media reported. The 46-year-old …

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Impressively alarming are the results from the updated analysis of the burned areas from the forest fires in the continental parts of the Attica Region: 37% of the forests have been burned down in the last 8 years, that is from 2017 until mid-August 2024. According to the meteo service …

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The big wildfire that started in north-eastern Attica on Sunday has reached the outskirts of NE Athens, Patima areas in the suburbs of Halandri and Vrilissia on Monday afternoon, 24 hours after its start. Skai TV has just reported that at least 3 houses in Patima, Vrilissia have been swallowed …

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Heavy grey-yellow clouds blanketed the sky of Athens on Sunday afternoon, after a wildfire broke out in the farmland and forest area of Varnavas in north-eastern Attica,some 30 km away, and has been raging out of control. The north suburbs of the Greek capital report of a “suffocating atmosphere”, while …

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Millions of residents of Athens and Attica as well as tourists received weather alerts at noon on Thursday warning them of upcoming heavy rainfalls and storms as of the afternoon. The sms was sent via the Emergency line <112> by the Civil Protection. It is worth noting that many Greeks …

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One man had died and another two have been seriously injured in wildfires that are raging in eastern Attica on Sunday. The fires have lead to evacuations of hundreds of people from several settlements and villages, have burned down houses and cars, destroyed people’s lives, extinguished the fauna and flora …

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A wildfire broken out in Parnitha mountain, in the area of Katsimidi, in north-western Attica short before 3 o’ clock on Saturday. Strong northern winds blowing with intensity of 7 Beaufort and gusts up to 9B have broken the fire front into two, one heading in the west and south …

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Dozens of elementary schools located in Athens and broader Attica received bomb threats via e-mail on Wednesday morning, Greek police said. The e-mails with identical content were sent to at least 35 schools from an anonymous sender outside Greece and alleged that explosives were stored in schools in Gerakas, Aigaleo, …

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Police has arrested a couple of Nepalese nationals suspected of having disposed their newborn baby in a trash bin. While it remains unclear whether there was a birth or a miscarriage, whether the baby was dead or alive when disposed, its body was found in a landfill late Friday afternoon. …

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The charred body of well-known businessman Christos Gialias was found in a burning vehicle in the West Attica suburb of Mandra on Wednesday evening. A Kalashnikov weapon was also found inside the car. It is the second mafia-style execution since January 1, 2024. It was neighbors who alarmed the police …

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Greek police conducted intensive checks in cars in the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday morning to confirm that drivers are supplied with anti-skid chains due to upcoming snowfalls at night. Anti-skid chains are in fact mandatory from 10 o’ clock Monday night, January 29, 2024, following a decision by …

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The Internal Affairs Service of the Greek Security Forces arrested two police officers for repeated extortion, bribery of an employee, abuse of power, breach of official confidentiality, dereliction of duty, as well as for breaching arms and drug laws. The arrests on Sunday morning followed a complaint according to which …

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Greek Police has discovered stolen icons and wood-carved doorposts of archaeological value in a monastery in Attica. The icons were stolen from other monasteries and churches outside the Attica region. With the assistance of a team of archaeologists and experts in Byzantine studies, officers from the Department Cultural Heritage and …

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Hunters found bones and a human skull in a remote place of the Gerania Mountains in western Attica on Saturday. The human remains were identified to belong to a missing man. Last Saturday noon, a hunter noticed that his dog was digging up bones through bushes in an remote area …

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The ‘epidemic” of bedbugs have arrived in Greece too and forced the closure of a wing in a seaside hotel in capital Athens. The bedbugs were recently discovered by hotel cleaners. The news was revealed by Giorgos Hotzoglou, the president of the food and tourism workers on Wednesday. Speaking to …

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Twenty-four municipalities in the Region of Attica have been ordered to proceed immediately with the cleaning of the waterways of Kifissos river and two of its tributaries, Podoniftis and Eschatia, in view of the risk of flooding. The Civil Protection Ministry has declared municipalities in western and north Athens to …

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Two Turkish men have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the fatal gangland shooting of six other Turks in Greece last month, Greek authorities said Wednesday. Police said the six men killed in a Sept. 11 car ambush outside Athens were believed to have been members of an international crime group …

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Suburbs in western Athens and villages in Attica were evacuated as of early Tuesday afternoon, factories, storehouses and homes were burned down, parts of highway ring was closed, a local airbase is on alert and the blue Attica sky turned grey due to wildfires in Fyli at the foot of …

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An evacuation order was sent via the emergency number 112 to residents in the areas of Paliouri and Rizari at Marathonas, on the east coast of Attica, where a wildfire broke out at 14:40 on Wednesday afternoon. According to local media, the area is filled with smoke and the flames …

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Eleven large-scale fires in the Attica Region from 2017 to the end of July 2023 have destroyed over 55,000 hectares (550,000 stremmas), the National Observatory of Athens/meteo.gr said on Monday. The data were provided by the European Union’s Copernicus mapping services and the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). Excluding …

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