April 25, 2021
FEATURED, Social
Appalling conditions in a nursing home in Chania may have lead to the deaths of 68 to 72 elderly. Excessive use of sedatives and ill-treatment nearing torture. Elderly left to starve, tied in their beds, often beaten by personnel. Filth and negligence and accommodation in the basement for those paying …
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March 29, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism
The tourism season is to start officially on May 14, however, the first tourists already arrived in Greece and thus on Crete already on the last weekend of March. Several regular flights from Germany landed in Heraklio and Chania over the weekend. 35 tourists arrived from Brandenburg and another 20 …
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January 31, 2021
FEATURED, Very Mix
Authorities investigate the mysterious death of a 74-year-old British expat whose body was found in his sank sailing boat in the port of Souda near Chania on the island of Crete. The sank yacht was discovered early morning Sunday near Vlite by fishermen. The body of the man was recovered …
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January 20, 2021
Very Mix
A Norwegian national has been arrested on the island of Crete for the murder of his Greek partner, two days after the crime. The 54-year-old woman was found in her home in Meskla, Platania Municipality in the Prefecture of Chania on Sunday. The victim, a mother of two from previous …
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November 13, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Police in Chania, Crete, fined an elderly needy man with 300 euros for not wearing a mask. The man was on his way to a local soup kitchen and was holding the mask instead of wearing it as the lockdown rules provide. Together with his 66-year-old wife, the 61-year-old man …
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October 21, 2020
Very Mix, weather
Torrential rainfalls on the island of Crete turned roads into rivers, flooded homes and businesses and forced the temporary shut down of the airport of Heraklio on Wednesday. Dozens of motorists were trapped in rushing waters as rivers and streams overflowed. Flooded passenger area and airport of Heraklio. State broadcast …
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October 8, 2020
animals, FEATURED
A man who brutally abused his dog in Chania beginning of the week and triggered an unprecedented outrage appeared at the local police station on Thursday afternoon certain that the 48-hour deadline to be arrested had passed. He was accompanied by his lawyer. From what is reportedly known so far …
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October 6, 2020
animals, FEATURED
The appalling torture of a dog in a village in Chania has mobilized hundreds of animal lovers not only in Crete. A local two-legged beast hanged his dog on a tree and cut his testicles. The neighbors did not react to the dog screaming in endless pain. It was a German …
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September 7, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greek police in Heraklio is seeking for two women who organized the rally against the compulsory use of masks in schools on Sunday day afternoon, local media report. The call for the anti-masks protest made via social media. Citing police sources, local news website ekriti reports that the two women …
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August 24, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s Civil Protection decided on Monday afternoon to impose restrictive measures against the spread of the coronavirus in the Prefecture of Chania in western Crete. According to a press release, the decision follows an extraordinary meeting at the Civil Protection Operations Center and it on the new epidemiological data that …
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June 19, 2020
Very Mix
The inquest on the brutal murder of 60-year-old American biologist Suzanne Eaton in July 2019 on Crete is now officially concluded and the man who admitted to have killed her will be standing trial, the Greek lawyers representing Eaton’s family said on Thursday. In their statement, the family’s lawyers Vasso …
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June 17, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Health authorities in Chania on the island of Crete, went on alter on Wednesday after a Swedish national was tested positive to COVID-19. According to confirmed information obtained by local media, the 20-year-old man was taken to the Chania hospital in the morning and he was tested positive. He remains …
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April 5, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Dozens of citizens, mainly elderly, ignored the lockdown restrictions and followed the invitation of a priest to go to the church and receive the Holy Communion. Police intervened and fined the faithful for violating the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The priest in Agia Triada Church in …
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April 2, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The first fine was imposed on a swimmer in Chania on the island of Crete on Wednesday for violating a new lockdown ban, the swimming ban, hardly known to the broad public. The woman was enjoying the sea on Wednesday afternoon, when she heard the siren of the local Coast …
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February 14, 2020
animals
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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February 2, 2020
Social
Mother and daughter could not believe their eyes when they received a paper from the General Hospital in Chania, Crete, that granny’s tests were scheduled for February 2022. Not six months, not one year … the elderly woman has to wait for two whole years in order to be examined …
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November 27, 2019
Earthquake
An earthquake measuring 6.1 R stroke in the sea area between the islands of Crete and Kythera at 9:23 a.m. on Wednesday. No tsunami risk, say Greek seismologists. The tremor was so powerful that it was felt also in half of Greece, including the far away mainland. Preliminary reports about …
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November 13, 2019
weather
Home and businesses were flooded and landslides have trapped people in theirs homes as thunderstorm Victoria hit several regions of Greece. Gale-force winds caused power outages and halted sea traffic between mainland and the islands in the Ionian Sea. #Storm #Victoria approaching #Athens now pic.twitter.com/u3u3egrAD4 — Christina Themelis (@tinathemelis) November …
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November 11, 2019
weather
A heavy rainstorm in Chania prefecture on Sunday night flooded homes and businesses, destroyed greenhouses, caused landslides and has several villages isolated from the rest of the world. Home of a 75-year-old in Sklavopoula Particularly affected are the villages Voutas, Sarakina Sklavopoula, Moustako. Selino and Vothiana. The Fire Service was …
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August 22, 2019
animals
Passersby were shocked to see these appalling image in the middle of the land road in Akrotiri by Chania on the island of Crete. A sick human had tortured and killed five cats and placed their bodies in the middle of the road from Kathiana to Aroni. The barbaric perpetrator …
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