6-year-old boy Thomas was declared “brain-dead” after a 300-km adventure with ambulance though western Greece to get an ICU bed. It is the second case in just two days that a child that had to be transported hundreds of kilometers from northern Greece to the south for an ICU bed. …
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Roma boy shot in the head by police officer dies in hospital
16-year-old Roma boy Kostas Fragoulis, shot in the head by a police officer on December 5, died on Tuesday morning Ippokratio General Hospital in Thessaloniki announced. For nine days, the teenager who was also a father of a baby, was struggling for life, intubated in the ICU. However, from the …
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Roma community in outrage; Grigoropoulos rallies turn into protests against police violence (videos)
As the 16-year-old Roma boy keeps struggling for his life after he was shot in the head by a policeman, members of the community are in outrage and started protests in Thessaloniki and Attica. Outside the hospital in thessaloniki The atmosphere is explosive also because of the anniversary of the …
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Thessaloniki: Police shoots 16-year-old Roma boy in the head
A 16-year-old Roma boy has been shot in the head and is in critical condition after a surgery. The boy had reportedly tanked for 20 euros and left without paying the bill. He was shot in the head after a pursuit by the police. According to media, the teenager drove …
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17-year-old boy shot dead in Mandra, West Attica
A 17-year-old boy was shot dead and his body was found with a fatal head injury in Mandra village, west Attica. The body was found by a passer-by at 5 p.m. early Thursday evening. A bullet casing was found next to the body. According to preliminary information, the victim was …
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10-year-old arsonist confesses the start of two forest fires on Lesvos
A just 10-year-old boy was arrested for staring forest fires on the island of Lesvos. The underage arsonist told police that he was starting fires because he liked to watch firefighters putting them out. The boy admitted responsibility for two recent fires in small forests in the area of Agia …
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Death of 14-year-old: Suicide after bullying or victim of “Blackout Challenge”?
The mysterious death of a 14-year-old boy in his family home on Friday night, just hours before participating in a competition sports game, has set authorities on alert and the prosecutor ordered an urgent investigation on Monday. The boy was found hanging from the ceiling of his room with a …
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12-year-old boy shot during hunting dies in hospital; perpetrator not identified
A 12-year-old boy who was shot while accompanying his father on wild boar hunting two weeks ago succumbed to his injuries on Friday morning. The boy from a village in Kalambaka in Trikala prefecture, central Greece, was hospitalized in Thessalonki. The head injuries he had suffered were very serious and …
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Couple arrested for heinous murder of 7-year-old child in Athens
A man and a woman were arrested in Athens for killing the woman’s 7-year-old child in January 2017, buried the body in a make-shift grave and later kept the bones into a tool box. The crime took place in the apartment the couple was renting in Kypseli district of Athens. …
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Teacher under investigation for insulting male student wearing a skirt (UPD)
The Greek Education Ministry on Friday opened an investigation into a report that a middle school teacher insulted a male student because he showed up in class wearing a skirt. Media reports said the incident happened at the Ilion Musical Middle School in western Athens on Tuesday, February 1. The …
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14-year-old boy beaten, injured in another incident of soccer fans violence in Thessaloniki
One more incident of soccer fans violence took place in Thessaloniki and this time the victim was a 14=year-old boy. The teenager escaped the attackers’ rage thanks to the intervention of employees at a hotel nearby. According to a lawsuit filed by the victim’s father, the boy was in the …
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14-year-old arsonist confessed 9 wildfires in Theologos, Central Greece
A 14-year-old boy arrested in Central Greece has confessed to have lit several wildfires because “he liked the flames and the smoke.” The underage arsonist admitted to have lit 9 wildfires in the area of Theologos, Fthiotida, since the beginning of August. The boy was detained on Wednesday morning initially …
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6-year-old refugee boy dies in blaze in Thiva accommodation camp
A 6-year-old boy died on Tuesday night when a fire broke out in a refugee camp on the town on Thiva, some 60 km north of Athens. . The boy was reportedly leaving with his parents and 4 siblings in a container. Local media reported that the mother reportedly managed …
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Teenager boy with disabilities dies in apartment fire in Thessaloniki
Α teenager boy with physical disabilities found a horrible death in a fire in an apartment in Thessaloniki on Tuesday. Firefighters recovered the body of the 16-year-old boy with disabilities that prevented him from leaving the room and escape the fire. According to initial investigations, firefighters suspect that the fire …
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Police arrests two foreigners for attempted kidnapping of boy in Pyrgos
Police in Pyrgos, south Peloponnese, arrested two men for the attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old boy on Thursday. On Friday, the two men from Bulgaria have been charged with attempting kidnapping after the potential victim recognized one of the men. According to local media, the boy was walking to tutorial …
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Woman positive in coronavirus gives birth to baby boy in Athens hospital
A woman tested positive in coronavirus has given birth to a baby boy in Attikon designated hospital in Athens on Wednesday evening. It is the first birth by an infected patient in Greece. First test of the baby negative. The 24-year-old mother and had mild symptoms like light fever and …
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High-school boy rescues puppies dumped on a road in Chania
A high school boy in Chania emptied his back bag from school books and put two puppies inside. He had spotted them dumped on a street and fearing the two cutties would be hit by a car, he quickly found this clever solution: to carry them to school where he …
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Policemen suspended for having slapped 11-year-old boy (video)
Four policemen have suspended from duty after a video caught one of them slapping an 11-year-old boy in Menidi suburb of western Athens. The incident became known after the father brought the beaten and terrified to a hospital and a medical worker posted the case on social media. According to …
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Boy in hospital after playing “choking game” with classmates in school
A 12-year-old boy was transferred to hospital after playing the so-called “choking game.” The boy was reportedly playing the game together with his friends in a school in Loutraki, western Greece. The boy was first transferred to the hospital in Corinth and from there to a children hospital in Athens. …
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Driver hits and seriously injures 14-year-old boy, drives away
A driver hit and seriously injured a 14-year-old boy, then she drove away, abandoning the victim on the street. The incident took place in Nea Penteli suburb of north-eastern Athens on Saturday night. The boy reportedly got off the bus and was about to cross the street when he was …
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