A 29-year-old man was found dead in a cell of the Police station in Omonia in downtown Athens on Tuesday morning. The man, a national of Bangladesh, is the second dead in an Athens police station in less than a week. In the early morning Tuesday, a man was reported …
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Police arrests man who brutally murdered transgender woman in Athens
Police has arrested a 35-year-old man for the brutal murder of transgender woman Ana Ivankova from Cuba in her apartment in Athens beginning of the month. According to police, the man, a national of Bangladesh, had a relationship with the 45-year-old Ana. Fingerprints, DNA material and a pair of scissors …
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Bangladesh national among the train crash victims
One more body was identified on Monday, almost a week after the deadly train crash. DNA samples matched showed that the body belonged to a 33-year-old national of Bangladesh, who was living and working in Greece. The 33-year-old lived in Greece for about ten years and earned his living by …
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Femicide in Greece: 36-year-old woman slaughtered to death
Femicide in Greece: A 36-year-old woman from Bangladesh was found seriously injured on a street in Kypseli district of Athens early Sunday afternoon. The woman was stabbed to death by her husband’s friend in front of her home. The injured woman was still alive when police and paramedics arrived at …
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Greece tries to repatriate to Pakistan and Bangladesh 250 migrants
Greece’s Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis said on Monday that efforts were underway to repatriate the Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals who arrived in the country as migrants on board the Turkish-flagged cargo ship rescued on Sunday. Minister Mitarakis said that “for me it is a top priority to agree …
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Greek goddess statue removed in Bangladesh after Islamist outcry
Workers have begun to dismantle the statue of a Greek goddess from Bangladesh’s Supreme Court complex, after an outcry from Islamists. The sculpture of Themis – the goddess of justice – wearing a sari was installed outside the court in December 2016. Several radical Islamist groups, including the Hefazat-e-Islam, a …
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ECHR rules Greece to pay €12K-€16K to each of 42 strawberry pickers in Manolada shooting
A group of strawberry pickers from Bangladesh has won a case against Greece at Europe’s highest human rights court. They were shot at by employer’s foremen for demanding unpaid wages after they had worked for 5 month sin Manolada, Peloponnese. The Council of Europe’s Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday …
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Shop owner from Bangladesh brutally murdered in Athens
The owner of a convenience shop was found brutally murdered in the loft of his shop on one of the main avenues of Greek capital in Agios Panteleimonas district of Athens. Tha man was a national form Bangladesh. His body was found in the loft of the shop, hands and …
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Manolada: all 3 foremen involved in strawberry-workers shooting arrested
Greek police arrested the three foremen suspected of shooting at immigrant workers demanding outstanding wages. Two of the suspects, 27 and 39 years old, were arrested at a lawyers’ office in Amaliada on Friday morning, just hours after the youngest suspect, 21, was arrested while on the street of the …
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Manolada: shocking video from strawberry fields shooting – injured workers to be deported
Several people lay down, unable to move. Others suffer in pain. More people are standing exciting and speak in a language we don’t understand. The exclusive video uploaded by daily Kathimerini on its website, displays footage filmed short time after the shooting at immigrant workers near the Manolada strawberry fields …
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Manolada: Shots fired on immigrant workers when they asked their wages; 28 hospitalized
At least twenty-eight strawberry pickers from Bangladesh were transferred to hospital with light injuries on Wednesday afternoon after being shot by the foremen of their employer. The incident occurred at 6 p.m. Wednesday on the 41st kilometer of the highway between Patras and Pyrgos in Peloponnese. A large group of …
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Crete: Tragedy with Evacuees from Libya – 3 dead, 16 missing
A human tragedy occurred at down at the port of Souda when evacuees from Libya jumped from the ferry “Ionian King” into the sea. According to Greek media, that at least 3 evacuees lost their lives, while 16 are reportedly still missing.There is a search and rescue operation on the way …
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