Tag Archives: French

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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A tragic end for the missing French tourist Violet Gigano. Police officers participating in the big search operation found the body of the 29-year-old woman early Thursday afternoon. The body was found in a ravine near Cape Krios, southwest from Chania, and some 5 km away from Elafonisi. The area …

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Authorities in the Prefecture of Chania on the island of Crete has launched a huge search operation to locate 29-year-old French tourist Gigano Violet who has been missing since June 24, the day she had last spoken with her family in France. She was planning to visit Elafonisi. Gigano’s rented …

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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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Passenger ferry “Blue Star Delos” changed its route and returned to the port of Piraeus when a French national was confirmed positive to Covid-19. The woman was accompanying 24 French students to a trip on the island of Santorini. A sample from the French national had been taken upon her …

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French tourist, Joyce – Timothy Radocic, went missing from the area of Piraeus on August 21st 2020. A Greek charity organization was informed about it on September 10 and published a missing alert a day later. According to the Missing Alert, Radojcic is 1.80 m tall and thin, with brown …

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Inside a special negative pressure capsule a teenager boy was flown with a Chinook helicopter from the island of Kalymnos to the University Hospital in Heraklio on Crete early Thursday morning. The 17-year-old French national had developed high fever for the last two days and chest pain. Doctors at the …

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Two foreign nationals, most probably both French, were drowned in western Greece when their sailing boat capsized during the storm that stoke the country on Sunday evening. The small boat capsized and sank near the pier of Antirio in the Gulf of Corinth, while winds were blowing with intensity of …

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Greece wants to shield the country in the face of Turkish challenges and provocations and will buy two French frigates, media reported over the weekend. The deal was fixed during the visit of Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to Paris and his meeting with President Emmanuel Macron on August 22. The …

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A French tourist has been missing since 26. August 2019 from a beach in Halkidiki peninsula in Northern Greece. According to an issued Silver Alert, 27-year-old Guillaume Mattarelli went missing at Azapiko beach in Halkidiki on 26. August 2019. He is 1.72 m tall, thin, with brown-green eyes. he has …

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Two men have been killed and one woman is seriously injured after a speedboat crashed on a fishing boat in Thini area, between Porto Heli and the island of Spetses late Friday night. On board of the high-speed inflatable boat were ten French nationals (two men, three women and five …

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An unprecedented tragedy took place on the island of Rhodes: Two teenager sisters from France were drowned in the swimming pool of the hotel where they were spending their summer vacations with their family. The two French girls, aged 16 and 19, were found dead in the swimming pool short …

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A French hiker died on the spot after she fell off a cliff during a hiking tour in Sfakia area on the island of Crete. The 60-year-old woman was hiking together with her husband in the gorge from Agia Roumeli to Agios Pavlos and was on the E4 hiking path …

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The Fire Service of Corinth launched a big rescue operation on Monday, to bring a French tourist to safety. The woman had fallen down the slope of the Canal of Corinth. Ιt was a tree that saved her life. She had managed to hold on a tree until the rescuers …

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The two French frigates FREMM will not come to Greece. French media reported on Tuesday morning that the French Defense Minister had dismissed Greek reports of last week that the French Navy would lease two FREMM frigates to Greece. According to what Greek Alternate Defense Minister, Fotis Kouvelis, said last …

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A 55-year-old French national lost his life after a paragliding accident in Koliaki by Nafplio, East Peloponnese. The man reportedly fell from a high height and suffered multiple injuries. He died before being transferred to a hospital. According to local media stalanews, the paraglide fell into an inaccessible area. Two …

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One French and one German national have been arrested for secretly filming military facilities. They were spotted flying a helicopter over the 117 Combat Wing in the air base of Andravida, western Peloponnese. The two foreigners were flying a Eurocopter AS 350BA Ecureuil over the air base on Saturday. The …

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In an operation that lasted more than twelve hours, members of Greek Rescue Team brought a French climber to safety. The 25-year-old climber got injured and trapped at an altitude of 2,100-2,200 meters in Gavos area on the Mount of Olympos. A total of 16 rescuers took part in the …

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Two months after the brutal beating of a local in Rethymnon, Crete, police managed to identify the attackers. It was three French tourists, who were on holiday on the island.  The brutally beaten PhD student and a friend were heading home when they were attacked for no reason by people …

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Sixteen rioters arrested on Friday night in Exarchia district of  Athens are to be brought to the prosecutor on Saturday. According to a statement by Greek Police the nationalities of the arrested are: Nine Greeks aged 18-32 Two French, 22 and 26 years old Two German 30 and 37 One …

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