September 24, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 65-year-old school principal in Achaia, western Greece, was arrested on teusday for allegedly sexually harassing a 14-year-old female student. According to the complaint filed by the student’s father, the 65-year-old allegedly made gestures and remarks towards the teen during two classes. The student informed her parents upon returning home, …
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April 18, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced at the plenary session in Strasbourg on Monday that she had received a request from the competent Belgian authorities to lift the parliamentary immunity of MEP Alexis Georgoulis. “I received a request from the competent Belgian authorities to lift the parliamentary immunity of Alexis …
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November 28, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A teenage rower in Thessaloniki in northern Greece on Monday sued her coach over sexual harassment. The 16-year-old girl, who was not named, accused her coach in a civil lawsuit of unwanted sexual advances between December 2021 and July 2022. According to the lawsuit, the coach used psychological pressure to …
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July 27, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
The captain of a Turkish Coast Guard vessel carried out dangerous maneuvers within Greek territorial waters around a Greek rescue boat near Leros island, the Shipping and Island Policy Ministry said on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Monday (July 25) off Farmakonissi, North-East of Leros in the East Aegean Sea, …
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January 8, 2022
FEATURED, Sports
Deputy Minister for Sports Lefteris Avgenakis submitted to the public prosecutor’s officer the complaints filed by 26 athletes of the Greek Gymnastics Federation who fell victims of sexual harassment. A clever move before the crimes would be written off due to time statute, if only the names of the victims …
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September 19, 2021
Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
With a demarche Greece is to strongly protest the harassment of French research vessel “Nautical Geo” by Turkish vessels as well as and the issue of an irregular navtex that claims the continental shelf of Turkey reaches 6 nautical miles east of the island of Crete. “This continued Turkish stance …
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May 6, 2021
Social, Society
A 22-year-old student has been arrested for flashing and harassing a young woman in southern Athens. The man was identified after the victim posted on social media footage from security camera that shows him trying to open the entrance door of the apartment building where the victim lives and his …
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April 2, 2021
Politics, Refugees
Greece’s Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis accused Turkey of seeking to escalate tension afterthe Greek Coast Guard reported harassment by a boat of the Turkish Coast Guard and that it escorted boats carrying migrants into Greek territorial waters. The harassment took place on Friday morning in the sea area North-East of …
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February 23, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s General Staff has dismissed the Turkish claims that Greek fighter jets harassed the vessel “Cesme” conducting research in international waters in the Aegean Sea. Claims by Turkish media that fighter jets of the Greek Air Force harassed Turkey’s vessel ‘Cesme’ “bear no relation to reality”, sources at the Hellenic …
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February 23, 2021
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
Turkey’s Defense Ministry has claimed that Greek fighter jets “harassed” research vessel “Cesme” conducting “scientific and technical research” in the international waters in the Aegean Sea. 4 F-16 fighter jets belonging to Greek Air Forces harrassed Turkey’s TCG Çeşme vessel on duty to conduct scientific and technical research in the …
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February 1, 2021
FEATURED, Social
The MeToo movement in Greece has moved from the world of Sports to the world of Arts and Entertainment with female and male actors denouncing sexual harassment and abuse but also bulling by directors in theater and the film industry. Actresses Jenny Botsi, Angeliki Lambri and Loukia Michala joined their …
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January 27, 2021
FEATURED, Social
Seven out of ten Greek women have been victim of sexual harassment or abuse and the overwhelming majority believes that it is not easy for the victim to find justice, a nationwide survey has found. According to the survey conducted by Prorata between January 22-24 in a sample of 1,115 …
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January 18, 2021
FEATURED, Social
The rector of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University (TAU), announced on Monday that he had informed prosecuting authorities about media reports in which three former students accused two retired professors of sexual harassment. “I have formally requested the intervention of Justice, in order for any such case concerning the University to be …
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August 27, 2020
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
With a new NAVTEX inside the Greek continental shelf, with air space violations and harassment of Greek fighter jets, Turkey keeps challenging Greece Greece in a twisted “We come in peace.” The Defense Minister in Ankara reiterates that that “energy surveys will continue indefinitely” yet at the same time claims …
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May 3, 2020
Turkey-GR
Two Turkish fighter planes harassed the helicopter carrying Defense Minister, Nikoss Panagiotopoulos, and the Chief of General Staff, General Konstantinos Floros, on Sunday morning. Greece’s top defense political and military leadership was visiting the islands of Oinousses, Agathonissi and Farmakonissi in the eastern Aegean Sea. The incident took place after …
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August 22, 2018
Greece, Politics
Three policemen and one army officer are among the far-right group that has launched a coordinated online attack against journalist Stratis Balaskas who covers Lesvos for Greece’s state news agency ANA-MPA and news website lesvosnews.net. Two of the policemen has been detained. Balaskas came under coordinated online and verbal threats …
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June 6, 2018
Politics, World
Assistant Secretary of US State Department for European and Eurasian Affairs, Wess Mitchell, warned Turkey over harassment of floating drills and violations in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus. This is not something that the US will allow to go unnoticed, Mitchell said during a speech at Cypriot Heritage Foundation …
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August 26, 2017
World
Things are getting out of control over there, in the United States of Donald Trump. An obviously racist woman full of prejudice harasses a Mexican family driving through her neighborhood. She preforms a citizens arrest on a Mexican family. The self-proclaimed ‘police’ asks the poor family for driving license, when …
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July 19, 2017
Turkey-GR
Turkey’s boldness has no limits. Two times in two consecutive days, Turks harassed the helicopter carrying Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on a tour visiting several remote islands and islets in the eastern Aegean Sea. While Pavlopoulos’ helicopter was heading to islet Panagia, pilots received warning calls and threats from the …
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September 4, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
On the island of Lesvos, hundreds of migrants attempted to get on board of a ferry without the necessary papers, clashes erupted between security units and the angry people. In Kos, a mob of angry residents hurled tomatoes and eggs, swore and booed the EU Migration Commissioner Avramopoulso and EC …
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