Tag Archives: Ierapetra

A big Search And Rescue operation to locate a missing German tourist has been launched police and coast guard in Ierapetra on the island of Crete. The 73-year-old man has been missing since Monday afternoon when he went for a swim in Pachia Ammos beach. According to local media cretalive.gr, …

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A 54-year-old man in Crete stabbed to death his 48-year-old ex wife with whom he had four children on Friday morning. Surrounded by police, the perpetrator is currently at the edge of a cliff threatening to commit suicide. According to witnesses from the local community, the man had often spoken …

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It needed a local farmer, his truck and a parking attempt to have archaeologists unearth an rare treasury, the unlooted chamber tomb dated to the Late Minoan IIIA-B period by Ierapetra, Crete. The chamber tomb can be dated approximately from 1400 to 1200 BC, the Greek Culture Ministry said on …

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Two clay burial containers estimated from the Late Minoan era were accidentally discovered in Roussies, Kentri by Ierapetra on South Crete. The clay coffins were discovered when a farmer tried to park his vehicle in an olive grove and the soil gave in. Local media speak of an “archaeological treasure” …

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Dozens of Greeks marched through the city of Ierapetra on the island of Crete against the possibility of the arrival of  C Star, a ship chartered by the far-right European network “Generation Identity” (GI)  promoting an operation they call Defend Europe. The group claims to target the halt of sea …

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The Medical Association of Lasithi calls for the punishment of Michalis Spyridakis, a veterinarian who selflessly offered medical help to citizens due to shortage of doctors and nurses in the General Hospital of the area. The case of a vet treating humans became known last week by Sunday newspaper Proto …

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