October 30, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Tragedy on Crete: A rock crushed on a small hotel facility in Lasithi, killing one woman, seriously injuring her child. The tragedy took place in Agia Fotia resort village near to Ierapetra short before Saturday midnight. According to local media neakriti.gr, a large piece of rock detached, rolled down the …
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October 28, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A school principal allegedly asked immigrant parents for 50 euros for the wreath their child would lay on the anniversary of the national Ochi Day, on October 28, as the young students was entitled to. The CEO of pollster Metron Analysis, Stratos Fanaras, made a sensational complaint about a school …
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October 19, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Child abuse in Greece has reached unrepresented levels during the pandemic and the sexual abuse of girls has doubled when compared to the previous years, data of the Forensic Department of Thessaloniki has shown. Media reports about the sexual abuse of children pop up now almost on a daily basis …
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September 6, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 4-year-old girl was airlifted from a boat south of Crete to the hospital of Chania, earlier on Tuesday. The child was onboard of a boat carrying migrants. The girl was unconscious when the crew of a helicopter of the Greek Air Force picked her up. The child was without …
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May 13, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elementary school teacher has bitten one of her pupils, an 11-year-old child with disabilities. The teacher is also the principal of the Special School in Arta, western Greece. She did not inform the mother of the incident. And it was the It was the victim’s mother who found out …
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April 16, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The body of a child was found floating in the sea area off the island of Heraklia, Small Cyclades, in the central Aegean Sea on early Friday afternoon. The body was wearing only a white blouse and it is estimated to belong to a child aged between 12 and 15. …
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April 10, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Greek Police completed the process of recovering an electronic tablet used by nine-year-old child Georgina that was allegedly poisoned by her mother. The tablet was placed in the coffin of the little girl following a last minute request by her mother during the funeral at the cemetery of Agios Athanasios …
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February 26, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Four more ethnic Greeks are killed in eastern Ukraine raising the total fatalities to ten on a single day. The Greek Foreign MInistry announced late on Saturday that four more ethnic Greeks were killed in Sartana, eastern Ukraine. Another four were killed Saturday afternoon in the village of Bugas, some …
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February 11, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Α Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Heraklio, Crete sentenced a mother who did not send her child to school to six months n prison with a three-year suspension. The 9-year-old child did not attended school since September 2020. To her defense the 39-year-old mother said that she did not send her …
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February 8, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
A 39-year-old woman in Heraklio, Crete, was arrested on Monday for keeping her child out of school for two years over coronavirus concerns. The woman was arrested following a public prosecutor’s order and she could face charges of child neglect The 9-year-old pupil has not attended classes since September 2020. …
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January 8, 2022
FEATURED, Refugees
The body of a young child was washed up on a beach of the island of Naxos on Saturday. Authorities suggest the child was one more victim of the recent shipwrecks with migrants in the central Aegean Sea. It is the third body of a child washed up on the …
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November 15, 2021
Social, Society
The Internal Affairs Department of the Greek Police arrested a 29-year-old police officer on Sunday for the sexual assault of his 4-year-old daughter. The arrest took place after his ex wife accused him of the crime and after the girl was examined by a pediatrist, a gynecologist and a child …
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November 8, 2020
Refugees
One child died and six people are missing after a boat carrying migrant and refugees form Turkey to Greece capsized near the island of Samos early Sunday. 17 people have been reportedly rescued. According to media, the Greek Coast Guard recovered the body of the child from the sea area …
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August 15, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s health authorities announced 230 new coronavirus cases and 3 more deaths that occurred in the last 24 hours. According to a statement on Saturday evening, the total infections have increased to 6,858 and death toll climbed to 226. Among the last three fatalities is one 82-year-old woman from the …
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March 16, 2020
Refugees
A 6-year-old child has died in a fire that broke out in the overcrowded hotspot of Moria on the island of Lesvos. The fire broke out at Monday noon. Reasons are, so far, unknown. According to state broadcaster ERT TV, firefighters found the body of the girl inside a container. …
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March 2, 2020
Refugees
A child died and 47 migrants were rescued after their boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesvos, the Greek Coast Guard said on Monday. At least 1,000 people arrived on the Aegean islands in less than 24 hours. Vessels of Turkish Coast Guard accompany migrants boats. It all happened …
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February 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Two new cases have been tested positive on coronavirus, Greek health authorities announced on Thursday. One refers to the child of “patient zero” and the other to a woman who has recently visited Italy, Sotiris Tsiodras, Professor of Infection Diseases from the National Health Organization said. He added that the …
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December 6, 2019
Social
Results of laboratory tests conducted in UK’s Public Health Laboratory have confirmed that the 8-year-old boy was positive in the strain of diphtheria toxin, the Greek National Public Health Organization (ESA) said in a statement. The child that passed away due to severe respiratory infection in a public children’s hospital …
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November 28, 2019
Very Mix
An 8-year-old child has died following infection with the toxinogenic diphtheria strain bacterium, media report on Thursday. The child did not have the necessary vaccinations. It is the first death caused by the diphtheria bacterium in Greece in decades. The disease has been eradicated due to vaccination in all developed …
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October 26, 2019
Social
Greek police has arrested a 57-year-old priest for the sexual abuse of the 12-year-old daughter of his partner. The abuse had started three years ago, when the girl was 9 years old. The shocking case was revealed beginning of the week and the man was arrested by order of the …
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