March 21, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Norwegian photographer Knut Bry who was detained last week at the island of Lesvos on espionage charges, was released from custody on Monday. The 75-year-old photographer was reportedly released on a 4,000-euro bail and on condition of informing Greek port and police authorities each time he arrives at – or …
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December 9, 2021
Society, Very Mix
Israeli minerals and diamonds billionaire Beny Steinmetz is being detained at the Athens airport several days after he was arrested in Greece on an Interpol international arrest warrant on the request of Romania. However, Greek and Israeli media report that the a warrant was cancelled.Steinmetz reportedly arrived in Athens on …
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November 25, 2020
FEATURED, Greece
Nine activists were detained in downtown Athens for raising banners on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The women stood at the stairs of Syntagma Square opposite the Parliament, wearing masks and keeping social distancing. they opened a banner reading: “They don’t silence us. The Quarantine …
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May 1, 2019
Social
Greek police has detained a 54-year-old man in connection with the stray bullet that seriously injured an 8-year-old girl on Easter Sunday. Police has found the gun the man processed illegally, while ballistic examination confirmed that the bullet was shot from this weapon. The man, a resident of Athens, was …
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July 15, 2018
Turkey-GR
A crew of Turkish state TRT broadcaster was briefly detained in the city of Alexandroupolis, Northern Greece, late Saturday. A cameraman, a reporter and a transportation officer were detained and held in a police station for three hours before they were released. The group had some test shootings in the …
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May 20, 2018
Greece, Politics
Two people have been arrested as suspects participating in the attack against the mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris. The two are a 20- and a 36-year-old man who has been known to police for thefts, media report adding that police has identified another eight persons from the rich attack footage …
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March 10, 2018
Very Mix
Two German journalists were detained for entering a military restricted zone near the border village of Praggi close to the city of Didymoteicho. The journalists of state broadcaster ARD were detained by Greek military on Friday afternoon and were taken to police station of the city where they remain. The …
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January 8, 2018
Politics, Turkey-GR
The Athens Administrative Court of Appeal temporary suspended the asylum granted to one of the 8 Turkish soldiers who had fled to Greece with a Black Hawk helicopter after the failed coup in Turkey in July 2016. The court accepted the request submitted by Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas to annul …
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April 5, 2017
Greece, Politics
Judges ordered the provisional arrest of the high-ranking Golden Dawn member accused to have been involved in the brutal beating of a 24-year-old student last Friday. The victim reportedly recognized the man ‘beyond any doubt’. The accused denies any involvement. The obviously angered 42-year-old owner of a cafeteria, left the …
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January 17, 2015
Very Mix
UPDATE: Belgian authorities requested the extradition of a Algerian man who was among the detainees, Greek media reported Sunday evening. According to Euronews, Belgian authorities had said that there was no connection between the man and the mastermind of the foiled terror plot in Vervries, they later asked the Greeks …
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February 14, 2014
Very Mix
I didn’t know there was a legal term called “preventive censorship.” It looks as if there is or there could be. It was applied by a Greek judge to ban the broadcast of an investigative report into the recent migrant boat accident that cost the life of 3 women and …
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June 6, 2013
Very Mix
Greek student Giorgos Iatridis was detained together with ten other foreigners on Tuesday night with charges of inciting the protests in Taksim Square in Istambul. According to his website Alexiptoto, Iatridis was living in Istanbul since October 2012. He is a post-degree student at Aristoteleio University in Thessaloniki and move …
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March 27, 2013
Politics
Greek police detained film director Dimitris Collatos on Wednesday afternoon with charges of ‘insulting national symbols’. Collatos had hoisted a Greek flag on his balcony. The flag was featuring a German army boot over Greece in a lake of blood. A swastika was also to be seen. According to neighbors, …
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January 29, 2012
Very Mix
Three topless Ukrainian protesters, members of the Femen movement, were detained Saturday while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world’s poor. Separately, demonstrators from the Occupy movement marched to the edge of the gathering. After …
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January 24, 2012
Economy
UPD: The trial has been set for May 2012, as the journalist told the court that he had already paid one installment of 15,000 euro. Further he said that the day he was detained he had visited the local tax office to arrange a regulation of his debt. (in.gr) Veteran journalist …
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March 12, 2011
Turkey-GR
Turkish Cypriot police have detained two European parliamentarians for allegedly trespassing on a restricted military area in the breakaway north of ethnically split Cyprus, a Greek Cypriot member of the European Parliament said on Saturday. Polish parliamentarians Jaroslaw Leszek Walesa and Artur Zasada were told that they will remain in …
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