Two years after the murder of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz on 9 April 2021, Greek Police have arrested two people with relations to the crime, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos announced on Friday. In a Facebook post, Minister Theodorikakos, and not the Police as usually in such cases, said that “police …
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17-year-old girl stabs to death her partner in north Athens
A 17-year-old girl stabbed to death her 22-year-old partner in Marousi suburb of northern Athens on Sunday afternoon. She used a kitchen knife and sustained multiple wounds to the victim. The victim was hosting the perpetrator in her family home. Citing police sources, media report that the minor said she …
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Missing contractor on Rhodes found dead; police arrests local hotelier
A man missing on the island of Rhodes since end of August was found dead on Tuesday morning. Police arrested two Greek men. The missing man was murdered by a local hotelier in possible cooperation with his son. The 46-year-old contractor of Albanian origin, Tzani Topali, father of three minor …
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Medea of Patras: Prosecutors bring additional murder charges for two daughters’ deaths
Prosecutors brought additional murder charges against Roula Pispirigou on Monday for the deaths of her two younger daughters, 3.5-year-old Malena and 6-month-old Iris. Authorities point out at a modus operandi. Malena, Iris and first born Georgina, 9, died in a period of two and a half years under mysterious circumstances. …
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Chinese businessman arrested for the murder of fellow national
A 47-year-old Chinese national was arrested on Wednesday for the murder of a 38-year-old Chinese woman, whose body had been found by police two years ago in a forest area in Kaza Villia, Attica, the Greek Police has announced. The body of the victim was found inside a suitcase on …
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Caroline Crouch: Life sentence for Babis Anagnostopoulos plus 11.5 years and €21K fine
Life imprisonment Babis Anagnostopoulos for the murder of young British-born mother Caroline Crouch and another ten years behind bars for the killing of the family dog, the Mix Jury Criminal court in Athens ruled early Monday evening. In addition, the 34-year-old defendant received 11.5 years in prison for the dog …
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Landlord confesses murder of family incl two toddlers; he claims “unpaid rent”; police investigates also racism
The main suspect for the quadruple murder of a family including of two toddlers in Andravida was arrested late Friday night. The 60 year-old landlord has reportedly shot the parents and suffocated the children over “unpaid rent,” as he claimed. Police, however, investigates also a racist motive. Media report on …
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Family tragedy in Andravida: Father, mother, two babies found killed
A tragedy took place in north-western Peloponnese, where a man, his wife and two underage children were brutally killed on Wednesday evening. One 10-year-old child, a boy, from the mother’s previous marriage survived the carnage because he was not at home when the tragedy took place in the family’s home …
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Thessaloniki: 12. suspect in the murder of 19-year-old man by hooligans surrenders to police
A 21-year-old suspect turned himself to the authorities on Monday morning. He is 12th young man to be arrested in the murder case of 19-year-old Alkis Kambanos by football hooligans in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on February 1. The suspect, who has previously been identified by other suspects as “Dinos,” is …
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One arrest in murder case of Greek journalist Nikolaos Katsikas in Egypt
Egyptian authorities are investigating the murder of Greek veteran journalist and correspondent of state-run news agencies in Greece and Cyprus 56-year-old Nikolaos Katsikas. The victim was stabbed to death and was found in his home in Giza, last week. According to Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram, authorities announced on Tuesday the …
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One soccer fan arrested for stabbing young man in Thessaloniki; Video shows fleeing attackers
A video showing the suspects fleeing the scene where a 19-year-old man was stabbed and killed was made public by a news website in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, where the heinus murder took place in the early morning hours of Tuesday. The video obtained by local news website thestival.gr and by …
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Greek Psycho: Middle-aged man arrested for murder and rape of his elderly mother
A 59-year-old man has murdered his 85-year-old mother in their home in a village in Grevena, north-western Greece. He made all preparations for the burial according to the Greek customs before he informed the funeral office. The funeral master got suspicious and informed the police. It turned out that the …
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Man guns down ex wife in Thessaloniki: 17. femicide victim in 2021, the 3rd in December
Femicide in Greece: Police announced on Tuesday that it solved the murder of a 55-year-old woman in a bakery in Thessaloniki on Monday morning. The murderer was not a woman not even the victim’s mother-in-law as media initially reported. Police said it arrested the 56-year-old ex husband of the victim …
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Wild Far West: Woman shot dead while buying bread in a bakery in Thessaloniki
Scenes from the Wild Far West took place in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Monday morning: A woman was shot while she was buying bread in a bakery. She died short time later. The shooter was reportedly another woman who fled the scene right after the murder.. The victim was transferred …
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DNA solves cold case from 2009: Suspect of recent murder case had killed his lawyer’s mother
A murder cold case from 2009 was solved after Greek Police compared DNA material with that of a man arrested for the murder of his grandmother two weeks ago. The victim of the 2009 murder was the mother of the lawyer he had hired to defend him for the godmother’s …
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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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Parole for Golden Dawn convict Patelis; was sentenced 10 years for assistance to Fyssas’ murder
A year after the leaders of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn were jailed, the head of the local branch in Nikaia, Giorgos Patelis was set free. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assistance in the the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas.and for being a member of a criminal organization. …
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Investigation into murder of Caroline Crouch concludes; shocking audio when husband calls the police
Investigation into the murder of 20-year-old Caroline Crouch in her home in Glyka Nera by her husband in last May has officially concluded. According to media reports, the examining Magistrate came to the result that the victim’s 33-year-old husband was the sole responsible for her death. All the evidence points …
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Femicide: “He did what many men think during argument: He pushed her off the cliff”
With the gender-based violence and femicide on the rise in Greece, there are many voices calling for the urgent need for education and self-criticism of the society, the dismantling of stereotypes and no tolerance against such crimes. And there come the conservative misogynists in the mainstream media trying to acquit …
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Another femicide: Young man pushes girl friend to death on Folegandros rocky beach
A young man pushed his girl friend into death over a rocky slope of 30 meters on the island of Folegandros and ran away. He was arrested a day later. He confessed claiming that “the phase was foiled, it was the bad time.” The homicide, in fact another femicide in …
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