January 31, 2023
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Prominent Greek writer and outspoken critic of the Church of Greece, Petros Tatsopoulos, was arrested on Monday after a candidate with the Christian nationalist Greek Solution party sued him for defamation and accused him of violating his religious freedom. Petros Tatsopoulos was taken into custody in downtown Athens after speaking …
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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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May 13, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Greek State will sue big pharmaceutical corporation Novartis, claiming compensation for illegal practices, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Friday. In a statement Minister Plevris said: “Implementing our government commitment to claim compensation from the company Novartis for all illegal practices and according to the minutes of the NSC, …
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May 5, 2022
Uncategorized
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce the national support plan aiming to relief households and businesses from exorbitant electricity rates. The televised message will be broadcast at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The new measures are scheduled to be presented in detail on Friday, May 6, by the finance and the …
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April 19, 2022
Social, Society
With vulgar comments and in outrage a priest in a suburb of southern Athens denied a transgender woman with financial problems to get meals from the parish soup kitchen. The woman had been going to the soup kitchen of a parish in Kallithea suburb for the last two weeks, when …
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March 27, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
The first lawsuit for the death of a patient who contracted Covid-19 in a hospital and died was filed by the family of the deceased patient. The lawsuit was filed by the widow of the 59-year-old man. The patient was admitted to a well-known private hospital in Athens on April …
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February 17, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elderly woman was caught in a big supermarket chain in Athens to have stolen food items worth some 40 euros. The store manager called the police, had the granny arrested and filed a lawsuit. Despite pleads by other customers and even police officers as well as a public outcry, …
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November 11, 2021
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a lawsuit against a Greek newspaper on Wednesday. The lawsuit submitted to a prosecutor’s office in Ankara refers to a front page of conservative daily “Dimokratia” two years ago. The lawsuit demands imprisonment of up to five years for four high-ranking newspaper staff …
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October 22, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
An anti-vaxxer filed a lawsuit against a hairdresser in Thessaloniki claiming the owner “attempted to torture” him. In his lawsuit the elderly man demands 10,000 euro compensation stating that the hairdresser refused service. According to media, the man demanded that he undergoes a haircut and receives services by an unvacicnated …
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June 15, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Strikes
Education Minister Niki Kerameos on Tuesday filed an urgent lawsuit in response to the 24-hour strike called on June 16 by civil servants’ union confederation ADEDY and the Labor Center of Athens. According to an education ministry announcement, it was resorting to the courts “with the sole purpose of ensuring …
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February 25, 2020
Greece
The Regional government of the North Aegean Region, the municipality on Lesvos and the local Workers’ Center have called for a general strike on Wednesday, February 26, 2020. The decision comes amid clashes between locals and riot police deployed from Athens over the new closed migration centers. An announcement issued …
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December 2, 2019
Greece
The Greek Helsinki Monitor has filed two lawsuits against former prime minister, Antonis Samaras, and current Shipping Minister, Yannis Plakiotis, for “spreading false news on racist motives and public incitement to discrimination and hatred against refugees.” The lawsuits refer to a speech by Samaras at the New Democracy congress on …
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October 21, 2019
Very Mix
A parent association on the island of Samos sued a teacher whom they accuse of encouraging students to ignore their parents’ wishes with regards to their opposition to refugee children entering the school. In February 2018, the primary school teacher in the town of Vathi spoke up against racism and …
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September 16, 2019
Greece
Former PASOK Minister and current KINAL MP, Andreas Loverdos, has filed lawsuits against the Supreme Court prosecutors investigating the Novartis bribery scandal. Early Monday morning, Loverdos filed the lawsuits against Corruption Prosecutor, Eleni Touloupaki, and two assistant prosecutors over their handling of the Novartis case. He accuses the judicial official …
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July 9, 2019
Sports
NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo has defended his nickname and sued a US artist for selling “Greek Freak” t-shirts without his permission. According to TMZ Sports, the Milwaukee Bucks stud is going scorched earth on Pennsylvania-based artist Jinder Bhogal — who sells NBA player-inspired clothing on his website. In fact, Bhogal …
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February 18, 2019
Greece, Politics
Former Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias filed a lawsuit against ex Defense Minister and Independent Greeks president Panos Kammenos. Kotzias sued his former colleague in the SYRIZA-ANEL government for a series of offenses, such a physical and moral incitement, defamation and direct synergy to a threat, spreading false news also against …
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February 13, 2019
Social
The family of Zak Kostopoulos filed a lawsuit against the jewelry shop owner and a real estate following the results of repetitive toxicological and histological examinations. The lawsuit for “intentional murder” aims to change the charges against the two men who beat the LGBT activist on September 2018. According to …
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November 6, 2018
Greece
Former Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has filed a lawsuit for defamation and dissemination of fake news aiming to undermine him and the Prespes Agreement. The former FM filed a 10-page lawsuit at the Prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court. The former minister believes that “legal suits for treason brought against him …
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September 6, 2018
Greece, Politics
Piraeus Bank has won a lawsuit against Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy for loans that have not be repaid. A First Instance Court in Athens ruled on Tuesday in favor of the bank that could theoretically proceed with the confiscation deposits and assets of the conservative party.Greece’ main opposition …
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August 1, 2018
Social
Two families who lost relatives in the Athens wildfires filed lawsuits at the First Instance Prosecutor’s Office in Athens on Wednesday morning. The families demand the persecution of all responsible for the loss of their beloved ones: a 70-year-old father and husband and a 74-year-old mother. The testimonies how the …
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