September 12, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
High-ranking Hellenic Coast Guard officers have been appearing before the Greek Ombudsman since Monday over the fatal shipwreck off southern Greece in June 2023. The process is expected to be completed on September 20, with the examination of the coast guard head himself, Vice Admiral Georgios Alexandrakis. The process is …
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June 20, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
Greece’s Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis announced 13 of amendments and additional provisions aiming at tackling a rising social problems as the number of domestic violence incidents have been increasing on daily basis. The new laws do not increase sentences to offenders, however, it tightens provisions for the pre-trial period. 1,000 …
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March 29, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
A court in Athens found the main defendant in the pimping case of the 12-year-old girl in Kolonos guilty of rape and pimping and the girl’s mother innocent. 16 other defendants were found also guilty. The Mixed Jury Court of Athens did not adopt the outrageous prosecutor’s proposal and ruled …
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May 5, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Association of Judges and Prosecutors twice turned down an invitation to discuss problems in the justice sector by the Plenary of Law Associations of Greece, it was announced on Thursday. The bar associations had invited the judicial authorities to a discussion on May 8. The latter rejected it, saying …
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January 17, 2023
Greece, Politics
President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, urged for radical reforms in the country’s Justice system that has been suffering from years especially with long delays in serving justice. “For one to be able to find solutions (to the issues of Justice) radical reforms are needed and not small changes …
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October 15, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Justice in Greece keeps moving at a snail’s pace and Greek courts are by far the slowest in the EU in disposing of even uncomplicated cases Despite all the promises of reform and the solemn declarations of successive officials that justice delayed is justice denied, that is exactly what’s happening …
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June 14, 2022
Greece, Politics
Two former SYRIZA ministers and three prosecutors will face justice for two separate cases in connection with the TV licenses and the Novartis scandal, respectively. Ex minister for Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media, Nikos Pappas, will be summoned to appear before a special court that will be convened in the …
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October 1, 2020
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The report Rule of Law 2020 by the European Commission identifies serious problems in Greece regarding the administration of justice, the pluralism in the media, the fight against corruption, the activities of lobbies as well as the protection of whistle-blowers. According to the report, Greece has adopted a significant number …
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August 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Minister of Civil Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, has ordered investigation and referred to Justice “coronavirus conspiracy theories” posts that recently appeared on Greek internet. On small websites and on social media, the specific posts claim that Covid-19 is in essence a “fairy tale”and urge people to refuse accepting fines and sanctions …
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June 3, 2020
Very Mix
Students organization, citizens, leftist parties and collectives, some 3,000 people marched through from Syntagma Square in downtown Athens and to the US Embassy on Wednesday afternoon to express solidarity with protesters in USA and demand justice for George Floyd. The main slogans to be heard in this anti-racism, anti-fascist rally …
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May 25, 2020
Very Mix
Finally justice after 9 years. A court in Athens ruled in favor of Emmanuel Kypraios, a journalist who became deaf in both ears after riot police threw a stun grenade at him during an anti-austerity protest in June 2011. “A great victory for democracy, the citizens, the (struggling) press and …
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May 7, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Justice authorities in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, have launched a preliminary investigation into possible medical negligence in the death of a 35-year-old patient who died after infection with Covid-19 last month. According to media report, the probe is focusing on the treatment received by the man, the youngest victim of the …
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February 19, 2020
Social
No words. How could a coroner claim in public that the 11-month-old refugee baby girl from Syria was “sexually abused,” when the final forensic examination showed that it wasn’t? The official autopsy report does not mention anywhere “sexual abuse.” The injuries in the body’s body most likely were caused by …
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November 14, 2019
Very Mix
After every heavy rainfall in Athens, state employees at the archive of Athens Court of First Instance plug hairdryers, lay case-files and court rulings on the floor and press “ON” to start drying them. Reason for this unorthodox practice is that the roof of the building leaks and the official …
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September 22, 2019
Social
Demanding justice for Zak Kostopoulos hundreds of people gathered in downtown Athens at the spot where the activist was killed a year ago. In front of the jewelry shop where Kostopoulos was killed, the protesters carried out actions with sprays and banners. “1 Year – 0 Justice” Friends, activists, members …
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July 2, 2019
Greece
Greece’s outgoing justice minister on Monday afternoon categorically denied a bevy of same-day press reports claiming that the country’s revised penal code will make it easier for inmates serving multiple life sentences to achieve an early release, with most of the speculation focusing on whether a handful of convicted urban …
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May 2, 2019
World
Cyprus’s Justice Minister resigned on Thursday amid public uproar at how police handled the disappearance of foreign women, victims of a suspected serial killer whose actions went undetected for almost three years. Four women have been found murdered in the past three weeks, their bodies dumped in three locations west …
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March 5, 2019
Social
Greek authorities have charged 20 people with negligence in connection with the country’s deadliest wildfire in decades, which killed 100 and devastated the seaside town of Mati near Athens last year. Court officials say the suspects include the greater Athens regional authority chief, Rena Dourou, the mayors of Mati and …
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February 14, 2019
Social
A mother of 13 children who applied for a job vacancy was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for having forged the date she graduated from elementary school. In her job application for a work at a state hospital in Ioannina, Epirus, the woman had wrote the year of her graduation …
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July 18, 2018
Greece, Politics
Greece’s ranking on Transparency International list of corruption has improved in “Corruption Perception Index 2017” when the country ranked on position 59/180 and score 48/100 behind Saudi Arabia and Jordan. In 2016 Greece was holding position 69. According to survey findings, complains about instances of corruption decreased by 8.5% in …
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