Heat stroke and exhaustion are the causes for the death of the 29-year-old French tourist Violet Gigano, an autopsy has determined, state broadcaster ERT reported on Sunday. Authorities had ruled out criminal activity from the beginning, when they found her body, despite the advanced decomposition. The body of the woman …
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Middle-aged woman collapses and dies after 2nd vaccine dose
A middle-aged woman in Kalavryta collapsed a died a few minutes after she was administered the second doze of a vaccine against Covid-19. The incident tool place Friday noon, while the 56-year-old woman was in the waiting room of the local hospital waiting for possible reactions to the vaccine. She …
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Woman who developed thrombosis after AstraZeneca vaccination dies in Crete
Τhe woman from Crete who had suffered thrombosis after vaccination with AstraZeneca has died, the hospital announced on Monday. The previous day, doctors at the General hospital of Heraklio had disconnect her from life supporting machines. They had reportedly informed her family a few days ago that she was brain …
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Lesvos: 63-year-old woman dies after vaccination with AstraZeneca
A 63-year-old woman died at the general hospital of Lesvos on Tuesday. She had reportedly developed thrombosis syndrome (TTS) after she was vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine in March. It is the first death following vaccination in the country. According to news website in.gr and other Greek media, the woman …
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Prosecutor investigates “death contract” denouncement by journalist Vaxevanis
Renowned Greek investigative journalist and publisher Kosta Vaxevanis revealed on Friday that he has received information claiming that he has been the target of a “death contract.” He published the shocking revelations on the website of his newspaper documentonews on Friday evening and “shared them with his readers in an …
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Crime in Athens hospital? Covid-patient suspected of cutting oxygen to man on ventilator
Greek Police investigates the mysterious death of a Covid-19 patient on ventilator outside the Intensive Care Unit of a big hospital in Athens. Authorities do not rule out a criminal act committed by another patient, also treated for Covid-19 who was in the same ward. According to media, the 76-year-old …
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Woman dies half an hour after vaccine: Autopsy shows pulmonary edema
A pulmonary edema was the cause of the death of a woman who died short after a vaccine on Tuesday an autopsy has shown. “It is the macroscopic image of an old myocardial infarction and pulmonary edema under further laboratory investigation,” medical examiner Nikos Kalogrias reportedly said on Wednesday. He …
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Two elderly die in Evia following extensive power outages, one breeder dies in Crete
Two people lost their lives in Evia and Crete as the heavy snow weather conditions prevented rescue teams from be on the spots in time. Late Tuesday afternoon it became known that another elderly lost his life in Evia due to extensive power outage. An 80-year-old man in Evia died …
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Iconic Greek singer Antonis Kalogiannis dies at 81
Greece is mourning one of its most iconic singers Antonis Kalogiannis, who passed away at the age of 81 on Thursday. The artist stood out for his voice with a rich facet of colors and best known as a singer of political songs, against the colonels’ dictatorship. For many years …
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Firefighter dies in floods during kindergarten evacuation in NE Greece
A fireman lost his life on duty on Monday, while he was participating in a mission to evacuate children from a kindergarten trapped by the floods in a village of Alexandroupolis in north-eastern Greece. The 46-year-old firefighter was drowned when the fire truck was swept away by rushing waters. Media …
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Tragic death of Scottish music artist SOPHIE in Athens
Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish musician, record producer, singer, songwriter and disc jockey, has died following an accident at home in Greek capital of Athens. She was 34. In a statement, U.K. label Transgressive said the musician, whose full name was Sophie Xeon, died in the early hours of Saturday morning. …
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Fishing boat suspected to be involved in death of ex Minister Valirakis
Αnother fishing boat is suspected to have been involved in the death of former PASOK Minister Sifis Valirakis was lost his life in the sea near Eretria on Sunday. The wife of the 77-year-old deceased politician has reportedly expressed such suspicion in a letter to Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis on …
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Olympics sailing champion Pelekanakis dies of Covid-19 at 58
Greek Olympic sailing champion Leonidas Pelekanakis died of Covid-19 on Thursday. The 58-year-old athlete was fighting the illness in hospital for two months. The athlete did not have any underlying health issues. Still in October 2020, Pelekanakis was taking part in open sea sailing events. He had competed in the …
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World Hellenism mourns Greek-American Hero, Paul S. Sarbanes
When Turkey invaded Cyprus, on July 20, 1974, following the Coup of the military Junta in Athens, Hellenism was fortunate enough to have in the U.S. House of Representatives two of their own: John Brademas and Paul Sarbanes. Both Democrats and opponents of the military junta and of the Nixon …
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Esther Cohen, the oldest Greek survivor of Auschwitz, passes away at 96
Esther Cohen, the oldest Greek survivor of Auschwitz passed away in her hometown Ioannina at the age of 96. Cohen had managed to survive the hell of Auschwitz-Birkenau and returned to her home town in Epirus, western Greece, after the collapse of the Nazi regime. Cohen carried the number of …
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One nun dies, 24 others infected with Covid-19 in Monastery in NE Greece
One nun died and another 24 have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in a monastery in Alexandorupolis, north-eastern Greece. The Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin Monastery in Makri was placed under quarantine. One of the nuns reportedly experienced a rapid deterioration of her health condition on Friday and died …
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Coronavirus Greece: 27 new cases, no new death in last 8 days
Greece’s health authorities announced 27 new confirmed coronavirus cases with 9 of them to have been detected among tourists. No new death recorded in the last 8 days. According to authorities statement on Wednesday evening, the number of total infections has reached 3,910 with the daily growth at 0.7% from …
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Greek ministers grilled at European Parliament over migrants’ pushbacks
Three Greek ministers were grilled with a storm of questions at the European Palriament on Monday regarding pushbacks of illegal migrants at the land and the sea borders and cases of probable lethal shootings at the Evros border with Turkey. Minister for Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis, Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis, …
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Greek-American George Zapantis dies after being tased by NYPD (videos)
A Greek-American man was tased several times by New York police officers and died following a cardiac arrest. The latest victim of police brutality in US had mental issues and was suffering from bipolar disorder. NYPD officers claimed that 29-year-old George Zapantis threatened them with a samurai sword inside his …
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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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