Matricide in northern Greece: A 61-year-old man has been arrested for the alleged murder of his 86-year-old mother. The man allegedly killed his elderly mother in her home in Kozani, western Macedonia on Monday. He called the ambulance service claiming that he had found that his mother had passed out. …
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Volos: Mother sentenced for stealing milk for her baby
Α young mother was caught stealing milk from supermarkets in Volos, central Greece. The 30-year-old woman told police that she had no money to feed her baby and she was forced to steal to ensure the baby’s survival. She was sentenced to 20 days prison, with 3 years suspension. Within …
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17-year-old stabs, seriously injures his mother in south Athens
A 17-year-old boy stabbed his mother and went to the street half-naked shouting “I killed them all!” The 45-year-old mother was found seriously injured in the family apartment and was transferred with an ambulance in a hospital in Athens. Citing preliminary information by the Police media reported that the teenager …
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Mother admits to have thrown baby in Aliakmonas river
A 29-year-old mother accused of throwing her 11-month-old baby into Aliakmonas river dam finally confessed to the crime during the re-enactment of the crime at the spot on Monday. Initially and right after her arrest on January 2st, the woman had claimed an accident saying that the baby crawled into …
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Mother throws 11-month-old baby in river on New Year’s Eve
The body of an 11-month-old baby girl was found at the dam of Aliakmonas river by Veroia in northern Greece on Monday. Police arrested the baby’s 29-year-old mother who eventually confessed to have thrown the infant into the icy cold river waters on the New Year’s Eve.. It was the …
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Thessaloniki: 29-year-old son beats and stabs mother to death
A 29-year-old son brutally beat and stabbed to death his 60-year-old mother in her home in Kalamaria district of Thessaloniki on Wednesday afternoon. Neighbors said that they heard voices and noises from the apartment short before 4 o’ clock and called the police. Police officers and ambulance rescuers were confronted …
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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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Patras dead siblings: Justice Minister orders disciplinary investigation against two coroners
Justice Minister Kostas Tsiaras has ordered a disciplinary investigation into the two coroners who examined the deaths of the two of three in total dead siblings from Patras. The final result of the latest forensic report in June showed that the two girls, 3.5-year-old Malena and 6-month-old Iris died of …
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Thessaloniki: Dramatic epilogue of a family tragedy
A family tragedy is behind the two passengers of a car that jumped into the sea in Neoi Epivates fishers’ port in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The 72-year-old mother and her 50-year-old son decided to put an end to their lives on Monday noon. It was a swimmer who saw …
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5-year-old girl found drowning in the port of Piraeus; last minute rescue
A 5-year-old girl was found drowning in the sea inside the port of Piraeus with the mother to not have even noticed the incident. A tragedy was averted only because the captain of a ferry readying to dock at the biggest port of the country saw the little girl’s hands …
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Teenager boy stabs his stepfather because he was abusing his mother
A 17-year-old boy stabbed no less than ten times his stepfather because the 36-year-old man was abusing the boy’s mother. The incident took place in the area of Pylaia suburb of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Saturday night. The stepfather had once again beaten his wife and this had the boy …
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Angry mob shouts “Death!” for woman charged with daughter’s murder
An angry mob spent almost the whole night outside the house of the woman who has been charged with the murder of her 9-year-old daughter Georgina, while police investigates the suspicious deaths of the family’s two younger girls. The mob, estimated some 500 mostly young people, kept calling for the …
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Medea of Patras: Mother of three dead girls arrested for murder
The mother of three girls who died within three years was detained by men of the Security Division of Attica on Wednesday afternoon. 33-year-old Roula Pispirigou was transferred from Patras, in western Peloponnese to the Police Headquarters in Athens where her detention turned into arrest. Pispirigou is being prosecuted for …
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Femicide in Thessaloniki: Woman shot by ex partner, a boxer with far-right background
Femicide in Thessaloniki: A 41-year-old woman was shot and seriously injured by her former partner inside her cafe in the city in northern Greece on Wednesday night. The victim died in the hospital on Thursday morning. The perpetrator, a well known boxer with links to the far-right front, committed suicide …
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Mother, two minor children burn alive in family home in Thessaloniki
A mother and her two minor children died in a fire that broke out in their home in Thessaloniki early Wednesday morning. The 32-year-old mother reportedly tried to open the house door and take the children aged 8 and 11 out of the burning house but she died before she …
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Mother of businessman abducted 50 days ago appeals to kidnappers’ “humanity”
The mother of the businessman abducted 50 days ago has gone public with an appeal to the kidnappers as there has been not contact to them since quite some time. The 40-year-old man was abducted near his home in Drafi, eastern Attica, in the night of December 28, 2021. Speaking …
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Mother in Crete sentenced to 6 months for not sending child to school
Α Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Heraklio, Crete sentenced a mother who did not send her child to school to six months n prison with a three-year suspension. The 9-year-old child did not attended school since September 2020. To her defense the 39-year-old mother said that she did not send her …
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Mother arrested in Crete for keeping child out of school over Covid-19 concerns
A 39-year-old woman in Heraklio, Crete, was arrested on Monday for keeping her child out of school for two years over coronavirus concerns. The woman was arrested following a public prosecutor’s order and she could face charges of child neglect The 9-year-old pupil has not attended classes since September 2020. …
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Mother of 5 stabbed to death in family home in western Athens
A 54-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in the family apartment in Aigaleo suburb of western Athens. The woman had been stabbed multiple times in the neck, chest and abdomen and was laying in a blood pool when police arrived alarmed by neighbors.. Main suspect for the murder is …
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Honorary Greek citizenship for Giannis Antetokounmpo ’s mother and brother
Τhe mother and brother of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Veronica and Alex, were granted honorary Greek citizenship in a decision signed on September 6 by the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou. Veronica and Alex were sworn in during a ceremony hosted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday. Present was …
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