A Cypriot national has been arrested while he was trying to steal stones and pieces of marbles from the Acropolis of Athens. The 26-year-old man was arrested on Sunday, March 5. It was a guard who saw the man in action and informed the police that a man was trying …
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Serres: 91-year-old man shoots daughter-in-law
A 91-year-old man shot with a fire gun his daughter-in-law, injuring her in the face. After the incident, the perpetrator was found dead in his home in Sintiki by his son. According to state broadcaster ERT, the man shot at his daughter-i- law with a Flaubert type shotgun. The 62-year-old …
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Domestic violence: Man abducts ex wife, rapes her and sets her hair on fire
A 28-year-old woman experienced the sheer horror when the ex husband abducted her, beat her and raped her and threatened to set her on fire thus put her hair on fire with a lighter. The new shocking case of domestic violence took place in Corinth, north-eastern Peloponnese, when the 33-year-old …
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British airline passenger faces charges after flight was diverted
A British man has been charged in Thessaloniki with several offenses after his flight from London to Cyprus was diverted, police said. One of the charges, a felony, is endangering transportation and passenger and crew safety. The charges were pressed after the 22-year-old man faced a prosecutor Saturday. The easyJet …
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Elderly shoots at minors in his home yard, injures two
A 70-year-old man shot and injured two minors who had entered the yard of his home. The boys, aged 14 and 16, are in hospital with injuries in the eye and the leg. The incident took place in Alepochori, western Attica, on Thursday night. The man took his rifle and …
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Greek police arrest foreign national, a fraudster, with German warrant
Greek authorities arrested a 37-year-old foreign national with an outstanding European arrest warrant issued by German authorities. The arrest took place at the airport of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Wednesday. The man has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for e-mail and telephone fraud amounting to roughly 1.5 million euros. …
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Thassos Fire: Elderly man arrested as main suspect for two arson UPDATE
A man was detained as suspect for the big fire on the island of Thassos and quickly his detention turned into his arrest. There is strong evidence that the man is responsible not only for one but for two forest fires in the same area within a week. The 65-year-old …
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Man attacks ex wife with acid; domestic violence in Greece almost daily
A 50-year-old man lurked his 49-year-old former wife and attacked her with acid liquid. The victim suffered a serious burn trauma in her one eye and is hospitalized. It is the fourth case of violence against women in Greece in just four days. The attacked took place in Messini, western …
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Man beats his bed-ridden mother to death: 3rd case of matricide in July
A 59-year-old man in northern Greece brutally beat his 84-year-old bed-ridden mother to death on Tuesday. The body was discovered by the second son of the woman who informed the police. The perpetrator had chronic issues with alcoholism and aggressive behavior and he was treated in a psychiatric clinic in …
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Femicide in Greece: Man stabs wife to death for …she was leaving him
One more femicide in Greece: A man stabbed his wife to death in their home in Koukaki district of Athens and called his son saying “I killed your mom,” in the early morning hours of Friday. The 53-year-old fled the crime scene and he was found later some 40 km …
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Skiathos: Airplane blast blows elderly man into the sea
A 79-year-old man was blown into the sea by the turbine blast of an airplane landing at the airport of the island of Skiathos. The accident where the man, a pedestrian who was walking outside the airport fence, was blown into the sea occurred Sunday noon. “Alexandros Papadiamantis” airport on …
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Abbot shoots man who asked to be paid for works at monastery
A abbot shot and injured a 45-year-old man when the latter asked to be paid for works at the monastery in Oinoi, north-western Attica. The perpetrator was arrested and so was his victim as the first had filed a lawsuit against him. The 45-year-old man had gone to the monastery …
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Thessaloniki: Patient dies in hospital ER, body discovered hours later
A 43-year-old man died on a chair in the emergency room of a big hospital in Thessaloniki and his body was discovered hours later, when the medical staff changed shift. The man had gone to the hospital with a pain in the leg, the doctors did not find anything wrong …
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“Robot dumpster” crushes and kills man in northern Greece (video)
Unprecedentedly tragic accident:: An automatic dumpster crushed the body of a man in the center of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece at Monday noon. The man was looking inside the dumpster when the compactor mechanism was activated and closed automatically thus trapping and crushing his body. Fire service staff and paramedics …
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Femicide: Man strangles his wife inside her pharmacy in Kavala
Femicide in Greece: A new tragedy with a woman victim took place in a village of Kavala in northern Greece. A man strangled his wife. He called the police and attempted to commit suicide. The couple has two minor children aged 6 and 10. According the local media proininews, the …
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Polish man killed partner’s 7-year-old child found dead in prison cell
A 33-year-old Polish national being held for the murder of his partner’s seven-year-old son was found hanged in his cell in a prison on the island of Corfu. Prison guards found him hanged with a bed sheet around his neck when they opened up the cells for the prisoners’ yard …
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Truck driver rescued from burning Euroferry Olympia 50 hours after the blaze; 11 people missing (VIDEO)
A 21-year-old truck driver from Belorussia was rescued from the still burning Euroferry Olympia on Sunday morning. “Tell me I’m alive,” the man told his rescuers unable to believe that he managed to survive over 50 hours in the burning ferry with high temperatures and toxic fumes. The man was …
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Police officer among suspects arrested for the death of Roma man in West Athens
A police officer is one of the two suspects arrested and taken to prosecutor on Tuesday for the death of a 44-year-old man, a member of the Roma community, in the suburb of Menidi, west Athens. According to media reports, the man was attacked and beaten on Sunday afternoon and …
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Athens: Man who brutally beats partner surrenders to police; victim still struggles for her life in ICU
A 46-year-old man who brutally beat his partner and sent her to the ICU with very severe injuries appeared at the police in Athens today after the expiration of the 48-hour inflagranti deadline that sends criminal directly behind bars. The man was accompanied by his lawyer. With punches and kicks …
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Man stabs wife to death in Thessaloniki – 14th femicide in Greece in 2021
A 49-year-old man brutally stabbed his wife to death in their home bedroom in Thessaloniki and surrendered to police on Sunday night. It is the 14th femicide in Greece in 2021. Police found the 48-year-old victim in a lake of blood. The woman had injuries in the chest and the …
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