Two Special Guards were arrested by the Internal Affairs Service of the Greek Police on Monday morning and a case was filed against them for torture and complicity in torture, respectively. The arrested Special Guards were identified as the police officers involved in an incident of a citizen abuse in …
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Volos Mayor slaps protesting flood victim (video)
The mayor of Volos, Achilleas Beos, slapped a citizen, one of the many protesting the situation in the flood-stricken area. A day earlier, Beos had “attacked” another citizen with a water hose. Several videos, show mayor Beos attacking and slapping a citizen and thus in front of strong police forces …
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Turkish citizen arrested in Thessaloniki over phone fraud in Germany
A Turkish citizen was arrested in Thessaloniki, in execution of a European warrant issued by German judicial authorities, on charges of participating in telephone fraud in Germany. Sources said the suspect is a 22-year-old man who has already been taken to the Appeals Prosecutor’s Office of Thessaloniki to initiate procedures …
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Police officer who beat citizen suspended while investigation continues
The police officer who beat a citizen during routine lockdown checks on Sunday has been suspended, media report on Wednesday. Citing Greek Police sources, state-run news agency amna notes that the administrative internal investigation on the incident continues and is expanded also into the other policemen who were watching their …
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Prosecutor, Greek Police investigate officers beating citizen during lockdown checks
Athens Public prosecutor and Greek Police investigate at least two police officers who beat a citizen during routine lockdown checks in Nea Smyrni suburb of south Athens on Sunday. With a lukewarm statement, Minister for Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysohoidis said that “unwarranted violence is not justified, we are absolute in …
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Angry elderly shoots dead municipality supervisor over water problem
With three bullets in the head, an elderly citizen shot dead the supervisor of Dionisos Municipality over a water leakage in his home.The perpetrator was arrested by police. The furious 77-year-old man went to the depot of Municipality of Dionysos, North Athens, at 8:45 Monday morning. He demanded a solution …
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Body of missing German citizen found in wild fire area in East Attica (UPD)
A macabre finding in the yard of a summer house in Neos Voutzas where the wild fire on July 2018 cost the lives of more than 100 people. A local electrician discovered a corpse when he went to the plot to reconnect electricity on Friday morning. According to initial reports …
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German woman arrested as prime suspect for death of Greek partner
For ten days, she was sleeping next to her dead partner, she was talking to him and she would even cook for him, the German national, the number one suspect for the death of real estate agent in Halandri, reportedly told police. The 56-year-old German national even admitted to have …
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Greek authorities arrest Bulgarian national for babies trafficking
Authorities in Northern Greece have arrested a Bulgarian citizen for trafficking babies. The 38-year-old man was arrested while he was trying to return to Bulgaria although arrest warrants were issued there as well. According to media, the man would find poor mothers in Bulgaria, offered them a price and bring …
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Australian escapes death after explosives detonate in his car in Glyfada
A powerful explosion took place on Friday morning in an open parking lot on Vouliagmenis Avenue in Glyfada suburb of South Athens. An Australian citizen under whose car explosives were placed got injured in legs and hands. Four other vehicles parked next to the car were damaged. It was short …
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Athens wildfires: Citizen files first lawsuit against all state responsibles
The first lawsuit by a private citizen over the devastating fire in eastern Attica on July 23 was filed with the chief prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Court Antonios Liogas on Monday, by retired navy officer Panagiotis Stamatis. The plaintiff also asked that the plenum of appeals justices be convened …
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Police arrests Turkish municipality worker for illegally entering Greece on a
Greece’s border police and army arrested a Turkish citizen who illegally entered Greece driving a work vehicle. The man accidentally cross into Greece, while he was supposed to conduct some work in the border area, Turkish media report. The incident took place on Wendesday afternoon at the border crossing of …
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German returns antique artifact to Greece; found during Wehrmacht works in Thessaloniki
A German national has returned an antique artifact to Greece. The antique ‘cup’ painted in black and with remains of decoration is in perfect form and dated back to the classical times of Ancient Greece. It was handed over to the Greek Embassy in Berlin by a German citizen. According …
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Drunk Turkish citizen convicted for illegally entering Greece
The Turkish citizen who illegally entered Greece running through the border crossing of Kastanies Northeast Greece on Monday was convicted by a local court a day later. The 40-year-old man was convicted to four months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 1,500 euros. He was reportedly under the influence …
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Turkish Purge: Young Lawyer flees to Greek islet off Symi
Turkish purge: A young Turkish lawyer was found on an uninhabited Greek islet, two days after the referendum in Turkey. The man was located by the Greek Coast Guard on Nimos islet in the north of the island of Symi, very close to the Turkish coast in southeastern Aegean Sea. …
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Athens: angry citizen throws a handful of coins at IMF’s Poul Thomsen
I tell you and I said this before: Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio until November 10th and you should be very well aware of this fact. Unpleasant incidents and ugly things can happen in the direction of disturbed communication. Bizarre arguments? Confused thinking? Unexpected aggression? Tilt in publishing, writing and …
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Ex Greek PM Papandreou calls for European-Wide Referenda & social media for all
It’s time for a European Revolution! YAY! Emancipation of the troubled EU citizen, active participation and social media! YEAH! Europe-wide referenda! Whoohoo! Hear! Hear! The proposal to revolutionize the European Union comes from a man who led his own country to ruins and unconditionally surrendered to the demands of the …
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