A man died in Halkidiki as the storm weather BORA has been hitting also northern Greece since Sunday. The man fell into a deep ditch with his truck and was found 8 hours later, early Monday morning. He most likely died of hypothermia. The 57-year-old man is the third victim …
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“Serial killer” stabs stray kittens to death in Volos, central Greece
A sick man, a serial killer, has been roaming in the center of the city of Volos, central Greece, stabbing to death stray animals, mostly defenseless kittens but also at least one dog. The man is wearing a hood and is covering his face to avoid being recognized. Authorities have …
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Bangladeshi man found dead in police station; second incident in a week
A 29-year-old man was found dead in a cell of the Police station in Omonia in downtown Athens on Tuesday morning. The man, a national of Bangladesh, is the second dead in an Athens police station in less than a week. In the early morning Tuesday, a man was reported …
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Man, victim of domestic violence, gets Panic Button, wife arrested
A 49-year-old man, victim of domestic violence, received a so-called Panic Button after he complained to Police in Chania, Crete, that he was assaulted by his 47-year-old wife. The man who arrived in panic at the city’s police station, asked for and received a Panic Button for his protection. He …
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Banknotes worth €40,000 from looted Libya bank surface in Central Greece
Βanknotes stolen from the Central Bank of Libya in Benghazi in 2017 have turned up in Larissa, central Greece, when a man from Volos tried to exchange 200-euros banknotes of total worth €40,000 at a branch of the Bank of Greece in Larissa. According to local newspaper eleftheria.gr, the man …
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Albanian man dead in “mafia-style” shooting in Athens suburb
A 32-year-old Albanian man was shot dead in Vyronas suburb of Athens on Thursday night. He was inside his parked car together with his wife, waiting for their son to return from the nearby park. The victim was shot in the head and in the neck by assailants riding a …
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Racist attack against delivery man in Athens (video)
A racist attack against a food delivery man. He was brutally punched by the driver of a car. It was only due to passersby intervention that the worst was avoided. The victim is a 36-year-old man, a migrant worker. The attack took place on Monday April 22, around 10:30 in …
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Maccabi Tel Aviv fans beat man in downtown Athens (VIDEOS)
Fans of Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv have beaten a foreign national in downtown Athens, media report on Thursday. the victim has been taken to hospital with an ambulance. According to initial reports, the victim, a young man of Arab origin, was holding a Palestinian flag and was exiting the …
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Man arrested for sexually abusing his partner’s minor daughter
Greek police has arrested a 56-year-old man after his partner and her teenager daughter accused him of raping the child since she was 8 years old. Mother and daughter appeared at the local police station in Patisia district of Athens and filed a complaint against the man who is an …
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Man beats and kicks his 98-year-old mother in western Greece
Police in western Greece arrested a 55-year-old man who has repeatedly beaten his 98-year-old mother on Sunday evening. The victim’s cries for help alerted the neighbors in Karaiskakis village by Arta who immediately called the police. The woman was taken to hospital and had marks from kicks all over her …
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Man arrested for at least 6 sexual assaults in downtown Athens
Greek police arrested the suspect responsible for at least 6 cases of sexual assaults in downtown Athens and thus in broad daylight. The 23-year-old Syrian national was known to police for similar crimes and had served a prison sentence of less than a year for “attempted rape”, while he was …
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Manhunt for suspect of four sexual assault cases in Exarchia, downtown Athens (video)
Police in downtown Athens has been set on alert in the last 48 hours after four incidents of sexual assault and attempted rape in broad daylight. Among the victims is a 13-year-old girl and three women in their 2o’s. Locals consider to set up “patrols” to protect women and minors. …
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Palestinian man arrested for putting Greece a risk even of “reprisals”
Greek police have arrested a Palestinian man, who climbed up a street light with Palestinian flag at pro-Palestinian rally outside the Parliament on Sunday. The 22-year-old climbed a light post and attached a pole with the Palestinian and Greek flags. Footage of his actions was later circulated on social media, …
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Bones, skull of missing man found on west Attica mountains
Hunters found bones and a human skull in a remote place of the Gerania Mountains in western Attica on Saturday. The human remains were identified to belong to a missing man. Last Saturday noon, a hunter noticed that his dog was digging up bones through bushes in an remote area …
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Police arrests Kurdish man, recruiter to PKK
Greek Police has arrested a 35-year-old Turkish national of Kurdish origin against whom there was a European arrest warrant. The man is allegedly a PKK recruiter. He was arrested during a routine check in Exarchia district of Athens on Tuesday nigh. The man had been sentenced to two years in …
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Man arrested for illegally hoarding ancient artifacts in his garden
A 62-year-old man was arrested in the northern town of Drama on Wednesday for the illegal hoarding of ancient artifacts in his garden. Police found in the man’s garden fragments of an associated sarcophagus cover, likely dating back to the Roman period, twelve built-in sections of inscribed Muslim sepulchral stele, …
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Crew pushes passenger away, he drowns as ferry sails away (videos)
The death of a 36-year-old ferry passenger at the port of Piraeus on Tuesday night is shocking as videos posted on social media show exactly what happened. Crew members of a ferry push the man way, he falls into the water and drowns, while the ferry is sailing away as …
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Eviction of disabled elderly man with 20 police officers (video)
A force of some twenty policemen, the whole force of a local police station in northern Greece, was deployed to evict a disabled elderly man from his home in a village. following orders by the new owner who got the house through an auction launched by a fund. The old …
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12-year-old sex-trafficking victim attacked and injured in her home
The 12-year-old girl that was raped and pimped by a 53-year-old man was injured in a knife attack in the home where she lives with her aunt and a younger brother, her lawyer revealed on Monday. In a different statement, the mother of the 12-year-old victim points out that the …
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Cypriot arrested for stealing stones and marbles from the Acropolis
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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