A baby was born positive with Covid-19 to a mother who was infected with the coronavirus. The birth took place in Attica Hospital in Athens on Friday. It is the first time that a pregnant woman has passed the virus to her unborn or newborn baby, Greek media report. The …
Read More »
Man with disabilities found next to dead mother. Both Covid-19 positive
A 61-year-old man with heavy disabilities was found crying, hugging his 90-year-old mother in a Kavala neighborhood. The mother had died two days earlier. Both were diagnosed positive to Covid-19 and were advised to quarantine at home by the National Health Care Organization EODY. A tragic incident in Kavala, northern …
Read More »
15-year-old daughter, two teenager boys arrested for mother’s brutal murder
A 15-year-old girl, her 17-year-old friend and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested for the brutal murder of a 50-year-old woman, the mother of the girl. The victim was found by police in her home with her hands and feet bound in her home in Agia Varvara, western Athens on …
Read More »
Rhodes: Solidarity wave gets single mother a job after daughter faints
Good news for the family of the 9-year-old girl that fainted due to hunger in a bakery on the island of Rhodes two days ago. The mother, a jobless hotel worker, was offered a work at an energy company in Athens. She will work from home. She will earn the …
Read More »
“House isolation” tests the holy bond between Greek mothers and sons
The coronavirus pandemic brings the world as we know it upside down and even breaks a holy Greekness: the relation between overprotective Greek mothers and her sons. A truck driver from Halkida in Evia was arrested by police in Omonia, downtown Athens, for having violated the “house isolation” ordered by …
Read More »
Second woman positive on coronavirus gives birth in Athens
A baby boy was born to a 30-year-old mother infected with the coronavirus in Attikon designated hospital in Athens on Monday. It is the second baby in Greece whose mother has been infected. Doctors said that both mother and infant were well and under observation. The baby was born with …
Read More »
Thessaloniki: Hour-old newborn abandoned outside apartment building
A young mother abandoned her new born baby outside an apartment building in Thessaloniki, North Greece, on Tuesday. The baby girl was just a couple of hours old and had still the umbilical cord attached. Police quickly managed to identify the mother and arrest her. She was transferred to a …
Read More »
Daughter kills dementia mother, abandons body on the street
Passersby on a street of Goudi neighborhood of eastern Athens made a macabre discovery short after 5:30 afternoon last Saturday. The body of an old woman, a dementia patient living in the area, was wrapped in a blanket and abandoned on the pavement. They alerted police that cordoned the area …
Read More »
Family tragedy: Air Force officer kills own child while starting her car
An unspeakable family tragedy: a member of the Greek Air Force killed her own child, a 20-month-old boy, when she drove her car backward. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday morning at the residence premises of the 110 Wing Battalion in Larissa. The mother stepped in the driver’s seat and started …
Read More »
Tragedy in Athens: Mother throws child from 5th floor, jumps behind
A pair of child shoes, a few flowers, a couple of candles… Still in shock residents of Neos Kosmos paid a small tribute to the 4.5-year-old girl that was thrown down from the 5th floor of an apartment building by her own mother. 24 hours after the tragedy in a …
Read More »
Crete: Mother, 2 children pulled out car plunged in 80-meter deep cliff
A mother and her two children aged 9 and 10, were pulled out of a car that fell off a cliff in the region of Rethymon Prefecture, Crete, on Tuesday. A woman was reportedly driving between Sisses and Aloides, when she lost control of the car that plunged into an …
Read More »
Abandoned 13-month-old baby finds tragic death in home fire
A 13-month-old baby girl died in the fire that broke out in an apartment in South Athens, early Thursday morning. At the time of the tragedy the baby was left alone, while the mother was reportedly meeting with her partner in his car outside the apartment building. The baby was …
Read More »
17-year-old charged for murder of her newborn in home birth
A 17-year-old girl has been charged for the murder of her newborn after she had given birth in an apartment in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, last week. The baby died of severe head injuries. The newborn allegedly slipped off the young mother’s handa right after the labor and fell on the …
Read More »
Tel Orfanos survived Las Vegas massacre to die in Thousand Oaks shooting
Telemachus ‘Tel’ Orfanos saw too much horror. The 27-year-old Greek-American first survived last year’s massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival, where 58 people were slain. He was also at the Borderline Bar and Grill on Wednesday night, when a gunman, dressed in black, killed 12 people. One of …
Read More »
Triple crime on migrants in Evros: Victims were mother and two daughters
DNA tests on the bodies of three women recently stabbed to death revealed that the victims were a mother and her two underage daughters. Authorities did not give any further details about the victims other than the DNA match. Initial information had suggested the mother was around 35 years old …
Read More »
Polish mother and son die while fleeing wildfires in Athens
Two Polish nationals, a mother and her son, have died following the wildfires raging in North-East Athens on Monday.Their bodies were found in the sea and most probably were drowned when the boat they used together with other tourist to flee the fire capsized. “They were on the boat among …
Read More »
Tragedy in Evros: Bodies of mother and baby recovered, two children still missing
The body of the 36-year-old mother and the youngest among the three missing children, 12-month-old Bekir have been recovered on the Turkish side of the Evros river on Friday afternoon more than 24 hours after the boat capsized/ Turkish media report that the mother was holding the baby in her …
Read More »
Newborn in Garbage: Police arrests mother and grandmother
Greek police has arrested the 19-year-old mother and the 54-year-old grandmother of the newborn that was found in a garbage bin in Petroupolis suburb of West Athens in February. Autopsy had revealed that the baby boy was born alive but was murdered right after his birth. Cause of death was …
Read More »
Greek ‘Psycho’: Son stabs mother to death, stays with body in apartment
A criminal case that has features of Hitchcock’s Psycho was revealed in Nea Smyrni, suburb of south Athens on Thursday. A 38-year-old man was found to have stabbed his 64-year-old mother to death. When police raided the apartment, they found the body of the woman on a armchair. The son …
Read More »
22-year-old student confesses to have thrown newborn away
A 22-year-old student has reportedly confessed to be the mother of the newborn baby boy thrown away and left to die in the cold. Police took to interrogation the young mother on Tuesday afternoon. The woman has told police that that she gave birth in the bath tab of her …
Read More »