March 22, 2023
Society, Very Mix
A group of hooligans attacked and injured a man outside the Athens Court of Appeal on Wednesday morning. The attackers were not even bothered by the presence of police squads in the area, which is supposed to be one of the most protected in downtown Athens.. According to media, a …
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February 9, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Well-known actor and director Petros Flippidis was sentenced to 8 years in jail on remand over two charges of attempted rape by an Athens Mixed Jury Court on Wednesday. He was unanimously acquitted for serial rape of a single person due to “doubts.” The court rejected mitigating circumstances, and released …
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December 22, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A Belgian court decided on Thursday evening that MEP Eva Kaili will remain in custody for one more month. She can appeal within 24 hours and her appeal will be examined within 15 days. The judicial council decided to extend the pretrial detention of 44-year-old Eva Kaili in Harem prisons …
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December 14, 2022
Greece, Politics
Qatar-Gate: The Tribunal of First Instance court in Brussels ruled on Wednesday that two of the four people detained by Belgian authorities investigating a bribery scandal involving Qatar, are to remain in custody. A third one is released with an electronic bracelet. The hearing of MEP Eva Kaili has been …
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October 26, 2022
animals, FEATURED
The prosecutor of Greece’s supreme Court intervened after a First Instance court in Halkida acquitted a 30-year-old man who kicked a cat into the sea in last May. Prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos intervened to examine the correctness of the court on the island of Evia. The court’s reasoning for the acquittal …
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July 13, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
The former director of the Greek National Theater, Dimitris Lignadis found guilty of the rape of two minors, sentenced to 12 years in prison. However, the court also ruled that he can go free until his appeal is heard, provided he pays 30,000 euros bail. His release on parole triggered …
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July 13, 2022
Lifestyle, Society
The Mixed Jury Court in Athens found the former director of National Theater, Dimitris Lignadis, guilty for two of four rape cases on Wednesday. The ruling was decided with a majority of votes. The defendant was in trial for the sexual abuse of three minors and one young adult man. …
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June 23, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A court in Athens on Thursday handed down hefty prison sentences to eight individuals found guilty of contributing to the deaths of 25 people in the flash floods that inundated the town of Mandra in Attica in November 2017. All sentences have been suspended pending appeal. The court imposed prison …
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June 16, 2022
Society, Very Mix
After judicial procedures that lasted one and a half year, a court in Athens acquitted 13 out of 21 defendants for the deadly flash floods in Mandra, west Attica, in November 2017, where 24 people lost their lives. The three-member criminal court acquitted former regional governor Rena Dourou (SYRIZA) and …
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June 13, 2022
animals, FEATURED
Α local court on Crete unanimously ruled in favor of the directors of two animal shelters in Chania region, dismissing all charges of profiteering from the placement of animals, mostly dogs, abroad. The presidents of two animal welfare associations that maintained their accommodation in Souda and Nerokourou, as well as …
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June 9, 2022
Greece, Politics
A Greek court on Wednesday overturned an earlier court ruling that allowed the confiscation by the United States of part of a cargo of Iranian oil on Iranian-flagged tanker Lana off the Greek coast of Karystos in south Evia. The incident led to an angry response by Iran that seized …
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June 2, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
A First Instance Court in Athens partially accepted on Thursday the issuance of a temporary order that prohibits power companies to proceed with consumers’ power outage in case of not payment of the adjustment clause. The temporary order was requested by Greece’s consumers organizations INKA and EKPOIZO. The Multi-Member Court …
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May 3, 2022
Uncategorized
The owner of a jewelry shop and of a real estate office were found guilty of causing fatal bodily harm in the killing of gay rights activist 33-year-old Zak Kostopoulos in downtown Athens on September 21, 2018. The two men were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment each, without parole. The …
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April 16, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A court in western Turkish province of Izmir has approved the appeal by Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı, an ethnically Greek Turkish citizen who comes from a Muslim convert family, to abandon his Turkish last name and assume a Greek one, Mezopotamya Agency reported on Friday. Yaylalı, who emigrated to Greece in …
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April 13, 2022
Social, Society
The prosecutor in the trial over the 2018 beating death of Greek-American gay rights activist Zak Kostopoulos on Wednesday sought the exoneration of four police officers and guilty verdicts for two local businessmen. In his closing arguments, prosecutor Sotiris Bougioukos pointed to expert evidence and witness testimonies that he said …
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April 11, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s top court, the Council of State, has been called to decide whether the 100-euro monthly fine imposed to unvaccinated citizens over 60 is legal and conform with the country’s Constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights. Several citizens over 60, unvaccinated against Covid-19, appealed to the CoS demanding …
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April 5, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Flights to and from all airports in Greece will operate as usual and without problems on the day of the general strike on Wednesday, 6. April 2022, the Civil Aviation Authority announced on Tuesday afternoon. The CAA sought the legal way to declare that the 24-hour strike of the air …
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March 18, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Denmark has infringed European Union law by failing to prevent local companies from making and exporting outside the EU white cheese labelled as “feta”, adviser to EU’s top court Tamara Capeta said on Thursday. “Feta” has been a registered Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) since 2002 and the European Commission …
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February 14, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A 35-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman were handed a suspended 14-month prison term and fined 3,000 euros each by a court in Rhodes for not sending their 8-year-old child to primary school due to the pandemic. The parents were convicted of violating the law on compulsory attendance at kindergarten, …
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January 10, 2022
Greece, Politics
A Greek appeals court has suspended the six-year prison sentence of former Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos. With the ruling, which was issued despite the prosecutor’s recommendation that Michos remain in jail, the former neo-Nazi deputy will imminently be released from the high-security Domokos prison in central Greece until the …
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