Tag Archives: crime

Police has arrested a night watchman at the archaeological museum of Santorini for stealing antiquities. Together with an accomplice, the  watchman has been stealing antiquities from the Museum’s storage room for about one year. In a cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, police raided the man’s home on Saturday and …

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A criminal case that has features of Hitchcock’s Psycho was revealed in Nea Smyrni, suburb of south Athens on Thursday. A 38-year-old man was found to have stabbed his 64-year-old mother to death. When police raided the apartment, they found the body of the woman on a armchair. The son …

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A 22-year-old student has reportedly confessed to be the mother of the newborn baby boy thrown away and left to die in the cold. Police took to interrogation the young mother on Tuesday afternoon. The woman has told police that that she gave birth in the bath tab of her …

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Greek police cracked down a criminal gang cultivating cannabis and turned into expensive crystalline hemp in Athens. It is one of the biggest drugs trafficking gangs operating in Greece, its members are form Greece, Vietnam, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The financial benefits for the gang members estimated to …

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More than 800 police officers will be withdrawn from the service of VIP persons and buildings and be deployed to Patrol Service on the streets, Minister for Citizens Protection, Nikos Toskas, announced on Thursday. The measure comes amid increasing crime in Athens and broader Attica and sharp criticisms by opposition …

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Greek mafioso Vassilis Stefanakos was assassinated short after 7 o’ clock Wednesday afternoon in Athinon Avenue in Haidari suburb of West Athens. According to preliminary information, he had left his depot of used vehicle and he was driving his car when two people on a motorbike approached him and killed …

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The body of a 55-year-old German national was found in an olive grove some 300 meters away from the village Triantafyllia by Arkitsa in the East of Fthiotida Prefecture on Wednesday. The body of the man was found next to his car, a silver Opel Jeep with foreign license plates. …

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Two tourists were found dead in an apartment they had rented via Airbnb in Vlahata village on the island of Kefalo0nia in the Ionian Sea in the morning of the New Year’s day. The nationality of the tourists is given by local media as “German.” The deaths are covered with …

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A young woman of Greek and Russian origin went missing on Christmas Eve in London, UK. The 22-year-old had left a party at around 8 p.m. local time on December 24 to go home near the Finsbury Park. She was to take the bus for home and to meet her …

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It took the state authorities a total of 13 years to manage to fire a treasurer who had embezzled 135.159 euros from the funds of a municipality on the island of Crete. The case started in December 2004, when an audit control discovered a cash deficit of 961.757 euros in …

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Greek police has arrested one of two Albanian nationals suspected to be the killers of 52-year-old lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos. He was arrested in the city of Patras, western Greece, on Saturday, while he was preparing to leave the country. His accomplice is believed to have left Greece for Albania via …

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A Belgian national was found dead by passersby in Neos Kosmos district of Athens on Friday night. The man had a wound on the forehead. While police investigates the issue, a preliminary autopsy conducted on Saturday morning did not confirm initial suspicion that the Belgian tourist was shot. Police investigates …

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It all started with the theft of diagnostic machines from Agio Savvas Cancer and Oncology Hospital in Athens, last week. The story repeated in the general hospitals of Volos, Lamia and Larissa in Central Greece. Four robberies in a week. Targeted at pulmonary and gastroenterology clinics in public hospital. Bulky …

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An improvised explosive device was found under the holiday caravan belonging to a couple of elderly German tourists on holiday in Northern Greece. The found was made by the 70-year-old man on Thursday morning. The couple had parked the caravan in Platanos Motorway Service Station on Egnatia highway, near Kleidi …

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For someone who claimed he had 95% vision disability, the man walked rather quick and easy in the yard of the court in Athens. On Friday, Greek police had arrested the 52-year-old blind man for having repeatedly raped and tortured a young woman he held hostage for 24 hours in …

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A mafia-style execution outside a public school, an unprecedented act of crime in Greece. A 47-year-old man was shot dead in Glyka Nera northeast of Athens, right after he dropped his son off at the primary school. The incident occurred around 8.15 a.m. on Wednesday shortly after the victim dropped …

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The worst scenario about the fate of the missing 6-year-old girl was confirmed short after midnight on Thursday. The boy of  little Stella was found in a garbage bin near the parents’ home. It was  stuck in a big plastic bag for garbage. After hours of police interrogation, the father …

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Three civil servants, two notaries, one lawyer and one police officer are among more than 20 people arrested so far in the context of an ongoing police operation to dismantle a criminal group involved in legalizing foreign women from eastern countries – a term usually used for countries of the …

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The body of a taxi driver was discovered Friday night in a remote area in Kastoria in north-western Greece. The 52-year-old man was shot twice with a 45mm fire arm, once in the temple and once in the back. His body was discovered 40-50 meters away from his vehicle. The …

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The coroner issued his finding. The details of the murder of the missing 6-year-old boy are creepy. Both victim and perpetrator were deaf. A coroner on Tuesday concluded that a 6-year-old deaf boy found dead in an abandoned house in Komotini, northern Greece, was sexually assaulted before he was strangled …

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