May 12, 2017
Society, Very Mix
Panic outside the Court of Appeals in downtown Athens on Friday morning. A man pulled a gun and started to fire in the air in front of the television cameras. The incident occurred in front of television camera crews covering the trial of the murderers of 26-year-old student Marios Papageorgiou. …
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October 9, 2016
Very Mix
Horror in downtown Athens: Saturday afternoon, a passerby saw the body of a man hanging from a tree at Klafthmonos street right in the center of the Greek capital. The passerby informed the police that arrived together with an ambulance. The paramedics could only confirm his death. The victim had …
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September 13, 2016
Society
Miracles happen! A 78-year-old man who had been missing since the stormy weather stroke Greece last week, has been found and rescued. The man had been missing since September 7th, when he left the area of Ilia in Peloponnese to drive to his home in a suburb of Athens. At …
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December 8, 2015
Very Mix
A young man from Syria was arrested on Tuesday on the island of Kalymnos of the Dodecannese group of islands. The man was reportedly arrested by the Greek Coast Guard due to involvement in a migrants’ trafficking ring. But the Cost guard apparently found ‘suspicious’ pictures and videos on his …
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November 26, 2014
Very Mix
In an operation apparently resembling CIS-tactics, Greek police caught the “killer” who opened fire with a Kalashnikov AK47 at a bar in Piraeus last in the early morning hours of Sunday. According to news websites and portals, strong police forces surrounded the apartment where the man of Albanian origin was …
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November 6, 2014
Very Mix
A young man entered a Joker lottery office with a bunch of 50-euro banknotes. He grabbed a lottery ticket and started to check numbers. A total 13 different numbers and 3 for jokers. Total cost of the lottery ticket was 3,000 euro. A private TV reporter who happened to be …
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September 30, 2014
Society
A 70-year-old man suffered a what it seems a heart attack while waiting at a bank to pay the property tax. The man collapsed after waiting at the queue for one and half hour. An ambulance was called in, the paramedics tried first aid, he was transferred to a nearby …
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February 4, 2013
Society
Volos, Monday, 2 p.m.: A 63-year-old man entered Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA branch in Volos, went up to the roof of the building and jumped to death. Without leaving a notice, without to have previously contacted any of the IKA services. According to information of local media, the man …
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February 2, 2013
Society
In the late hours of Friday, January 25th 2013, a man around his 60’s, drawn in debts and desperation, decided to put an end to his life: to hang himself with a chain. While struggling on the very thin line between life and death, the chain broke. Under a heavy …
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January 30, 2013
Very Mix
A unbelievable accident occurred in an Athens on Tuesday, when a money transport cart overturned inside an elevator and bags full of coins claimed a victim. A 47-year-old security guard. According to Greek media, the security guard was taking the transport cart full of coins in bags from the ground floor …
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January 17, 2013
Society
Police arrested two Greeks suspected of stabbing to death a Pakistani man a couple of hours earlier. One of the suspects is a firefighter, according to a statement issued by police on Thursday. The incident occurred at 3 o’clock in the morning, when the victim, 27, was riding his bicycle in …
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January 4, 2013
Society
A Roma man was electrocuted and died on the spot as he tried to steal cables from the Proastiakos train rails. The tragic incident occurred in the early morning hours of Friday in Menidi area of eastern Athens. According to Greek media, the man, 35, died as he was trying to …
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December 11, 2012
Society
A 60-year-old man got electrocuted as he tried to ‘steal’ electricity. He tried to illegally connect his house with the columns of the Greek Public Power Company. While up to the column, the man was “knocked down” by the force of the power. He was taken to the hospital where the doctors could …
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December 3, 2012
Society
Desperate because of the dire economic situation, a 39-year-old man saw no other solution than to put the gun in his mouth and shoot himself. the man had left a notice explaining the reasons that led him to commit suicide. The tragic incident occurred Monday early afternoon in Kountoura village …
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November 22, 2012
Society
An angel must have been watching over this desperate man in Patras who committed suicide on Thursday morning. The 33-year-old had used a wire to hang himself from an olive tree. It was a rescue of literally ‘last second’ that passerby found him still alive. They took him down from the …
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November 22, 2012
Society
A thriller is taking place in Thessaloniki, with an elderly man to have taken hostage the director of Loan and Consignment Fund. Greek media report that the man entered the Fund at 9:30 in the morning, carrying a can with gasoline and most probably a gun. According to reports, the well-dressed man, 72, …
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November 21, 2012
Society
Men and women without job, without income. Men and women without home… A super market cart to carry what is left from once a descent home: some clothes stuffed in bags. Some blankets. A sleeping bag. A camping gas, a pot and a spoon. And a roof of plastic to give shelter from November rain …
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October 30, 2012
Society
A middle-aged man claiming to carry explosives is threatening to blow himself up in downtown Athens. According to Greek news portals, the man is sitting on a bench of a park near the presidential manor and the prime ministers’ office. Greek police has cordoned the area, while mediators have moved to the spot …
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September 24, 2012
Very Mix
Greek police arrested a 27-year-old Greek on charges of “malicious blasphemy and insutlting of religion” through Facebook. The arrest came “after thousands of e-complains from residents of different countries of the world”, so the police press release. The 27-year-old had created a page on Facebook named “Geron Pastitsios” (Elder Pastitsios), an …
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September 18, 2012
Society
The news was too tough for the employee to bear. The man collapsed and passed away within minutes upon hearing that he had been dismissed. The 49-year-old man was employed at a company in Heraklion, Crete. The moment his employer announced his dismissal due to economic crisis imposed job cuts, the …
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