April 28, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
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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December 12, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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September 6, 2022
Society, Very Mix
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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August 1, 2022
Social, Society
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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May 19, 2022
Society, Very Mix
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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May 16, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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March 5, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society, Uncategorized
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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March 2, 2022
Society, Very Mix
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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February 14, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
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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February 8, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix
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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February 2, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix
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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December 16, 2021
Society, Very Mix
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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December 14, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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December 13, 2021
Society, Very Mix
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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November 15, 2021
Very Mix
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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October 20, 2021
Social, Society
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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October 18, 2021
Greece, Politics
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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October 13, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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July 19, 2021
Editor, FEATURED, Social
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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July 18, 2021
Social, Society
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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