A 17-year-old girl stabbed to death her 22-year-old partner in Marousi suburb of northern Athens on Sunday afternoon. She used a kitchen knife and sustained multiple wounds to the victim. The victim was hosting the perpetrator in her family home. Citing police sources, media report that the minor said she …
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Father kills son with adze, attempts suicide
Police said on Thursday that a 69-year-old man has killed his 41-year-old son in Menemeni suburb of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The man was found unconscious next to his son‘s body on Wednesday afternoon. He is now at a hospital emergency unit under guard. A coroner determined that the victim was …
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Police warns of mass phone scam with recorded messages in Greek or English
Greek Police has issued a warning of a mass scam via phone calls on landlines or mobile phones and recorded messages in Greek and English. The scammers pretend to be police authorities. The Police issued the warning after it received over 100 complaints in less than 24 hours. The scammers …
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Missing contractor on Rhodes found dead; police arrests local hotelier
A man missing on the island of Rhodes since end of August was found dead on Tuesday morning. Police arrested two Greek men. The missing man was murdered by a local hotelier in possible cooperation with his son. The 46-year-old contractor of Albanian origin, Tzani Topali, father of three minor …
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Polish man killed partner’s 7-year-old child found dead in prison cell
A 33-year-old Polish national being held for the murder of his partner’s seven-year-old son was found hanged in his cell in a prison on the island of Corfu. Prison guards found him hanged with a bed sheet around his neck when they opened up the cells for the prisoners’ yard …
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Man shoots at two, kills one in N. Athens: Police probed after alleged negligence
An Athens prosecutor has ordered a preliminary probe into allegations of police negligence and indifference regarding complaints made by the neighbors of a 40-year-old over his delinquent demeanor before he shot and killed a 43-year-old and injured another on Saturday in the northern suburb of Nea Erythraia. The man shot …
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Shock on Corfu: Local man kills French couple, commits suicide
Shock on the island of Corfu: a local man shot dead a French couple and later took his own life with the same weapon. The husband died on the spot, his wife was transferred seriously injured to the hospital but doctors could not save her. The incident took place around …
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Two more mafia-style shootings with two dead in less than 24 hours
A 39-year-old man was shot dead on Monday morning, in the second mafia-style shooting in broader Athens in less than 24 hours. He was shot several times in the middle of the road as he was heading to a gym in Vari, south-eastern Athens. The victim was a retired boxer. …
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Police offers reward for arrests in heinous crime where British mom murdered
Greek authorities took the rare step of offering a cash reward for information leading to arrests for a “barbaric” home invasion on the outskirts of Athens in which burglars strangled a young mother next to her 11-month-old baby on Tuesday. The minister responsible for public order, Michalis Chrisochoidis, described the …
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Thessaloniki: Police arrests woman and daughter for stabbing father to death
Police in Thessaloniki arrested a woman and her daughter and put them behind bars on Tuesday pending trial. The two have been charged for premeditated homicide in a calm mental state and violations of gun laws over the killing of the father of the family. The father, a 49-year-old taxi …
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Eleni Topaloudi: Greek, Albanian defendants found “guilty” for brutal rape and murder
One of the most heinous crimes in Greece: 21-year-old university student Eleni Topaloudi was brutally raped,, tortured and murdered by two young men on the island of Rhodes in November 2018. One and a half years later, justice was served, when a mix jury court in Athens unanimously found both …
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Police dismantles drugs trafficking ring, seizes 105 kg of cocaine
The Drugs Squad of the Greek Police dismantled a major cocaine trafficking ring and seized 105 kilogram of the illegal drug. In cooperation with the US DEA and following a tip off police raided an apartment in Agios Dimitrios-Brahami suburb of south Athens on Thursday. Police confiscated also 828,000 euros …
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Crime in Attica increased during the last three months
Crime in the Attica region has been on the rise in the last three months of 2019. The numbers are absolutely indicative, report Greek media. Ten robberies, 129 burglaries, 37 car thefts, nine drug cases, three gun violations, every 24 hours in the average have been recorded in the first …
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Criminals set up “drugs supermarket” in downtown Athens, 10 arrests
Greek Police has cracked down a drug-traffickers ring that was selling all kinds of drugs in downtown Athens. The criminals had set up their business that was operating on 24/7 basis in an abandoned building near the Economic University of Athens. They were supplying with drugs clients in neighboring areas, …
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Crete Police reveals appalling details about the murder of Suzanne Eaton
“Suzanne Eaton was raped and murdered,” the local branch of Greek Police on the island of Crete announced during a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, short before the 27-year-old perpetrator with initials G.P. was taken to prosecutor. The 27-year-old Greek man “has confessed to the murder of 60-year-old American biologist …
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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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Foreigners arrested at Evros border for child abduction in UK
Greek authorities have arrested two foreigners wanted with a European arrest warrant for the abduction of a child in United Kingdom. A 37-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman were arrested at the Border Control point Kipoi at Evros river as they were trying to enter Turkey from Greece. When authorities …
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Bomb explodes outside building with law firms in downtown Piraeus
A bomb exploded outside a building in Piraeus in the early morning hours of Wednesday causing serious material damage. According to media reports, one perpetrator arrived on foot to the building and left a carton box outside. He left the area on a car with allegedly at least one accomplice. …
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25-year-old theft victim dies after falling 20m from rock of Philopappou Hill
Greek police investigates the death of a 25-year-old Greek who fell from the rocks of Philopappou Hill in central Athens, on Wednesday night. The young man was there with his 23-year-old girl friend who is from Portugal. The couple was reportedly approached by three men around 11 o’ clock at …
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Dioni Alert: Citizens in Attica create “patrol group” to prevent crime incidents
Burglaries and armed robberies, invasion of criminals in homes and businesses, incidents of use of raw violence that sometimes ends in the victim’s death have apparently resulted that citizens’ greatest fear is no other than the unexpected violence outbreak. At the same time, the shortages in human resources and funds …
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