October 11, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The body of a 67-year-old British national was recovered from a remote area in Megalo Spileo, Kalavryta in Peloponnese, according to a police announcement on Friday. According to the announcement, the British national had gone to the location with a fellow Briton to watch passing fighter jets. However, the 67-year-old …
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December 29, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The 44-year-old Norwegian national arrested for the fatal stabbing of a 32-year-old off-duty police officer in a bar fight, as well as for injuring a second man with a knife, appeared before a Thessaloniki public prosecutor on Friday. He was charged with one count of murder with intent and one …
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December 28, 2023
Society, Very Mix
A Norwegian national stabbed to death a police officer in a bar in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, early Thursday morning. The victim died on the spot. According to state broadcaster ERT, the 32-year-old officer was stabbed to death with a knife after he reprimanded the Norwegian man over his rowdy behavior. …
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November 22, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Greek police arrested the suspect responsible for at least 6 cases of sexual assaults in downtown Athens and thus in broad daylight. The 23-year-old Syrian national was known to police for similar crimes and had served a prison sentence of less than a year for “attempted rape”, while he was …
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November 8, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The Anti-Terror Department of Greece’s police filed an indictment against a 39-year-old Egyptian national for inciting to acts of violence via the internet and social media. The case file was submitted to the Chania First Instance Prosecutor’s Office as the Egyptian man has been living and working in Chania, Crete, …
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October 19, 2023
Society, Very Mix
A young Syrian man was detained inside a church of Agios Paneleimonas district of Athens which he entered carrying a knife. The priest alerted the police as he thought that the man who entered the church short before 8 p.m. on Thursday was behaving suspiciously. foreigner with Syrian citizenship fell …
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September 20, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Police in Athens has arrested a foreign national who visited the Acropolis and stole pieces of marble from the archaeological site. Arrested has been a 36-year-old Romanian citizen following a complain by another visitor. He was found to have stolen two pieces of marble from the archaeological site. According to …
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August 3, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A Turkish man has been arrested on the island of Samos and faces felony charges as well as for abandoning his victim over a hit-and-run that took place on Wednesday afternoon. His severely injured victim, a Swiss tourist, died a few hours later in the hospital. The victim was a …
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August 2, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A German woman was found dead in the yard of the house where she lived with her husband in Milina village on the Pelion Mt. in central Greece. Her death was initially attributed to “pathological causes” until autopsy found out that she was shot in the back. Initial doctors’ reports …
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July 9, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A police officer was arrested after he shot and killed a 20-year-old Syrian national following a car chase outside the city of Larisa in central Greece on Saturday. According to the police, the victim was driving a pickup truck that had been stolen from Athens when officers signaled him to …
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June 14, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greece’s caretaker Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas declared a three-day national mourning for the dozens of victims of the shipwreck, 47 nautical miles south of Peloponnese, early morning Wednesday. By 9 p.m. Wednesday, the death toll has reached 79 bodies have been recovered and 104 people have been rescued. Dozens of …
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March 6, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
One more body was identified on Monday, almost a week after the deadly train crash. DNA samples matched showed that the body belonged to a 33-year-old national of Bangladesh, who was living and working in Greece. The 33-year-old lived in Greece for about ten years and earned his living by …
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March 1, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
At least 36 people have been killed, 66 injured and many are missing still hours after high-speed passenger train IC 62 with 352 people on board collided with a freight train coming from the opposite direction. Firefighters, army units, rescuers, police are struggling to locate passengers under the tons of …
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November 11, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The “terrorism suspect” wanted by Greek and US authorities on two Emirates flights on Thursday has been identified and located in Athens, media report on Friday afternoon. He is a Turkish national of Arab origin. Despite the thorough security checks of the passengers bound to Dubai and New York, the …
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October 20, 2022
Politics, World
Greece’s Justice Minister Kostas Tsiaras will have to decide on whether to extradite a Serbian man to Croatia, where he is wanted for alleged war crimes committed in 1991, during the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia, or Serbia, which lodged a similar request on October 11. The 59-year-old Serbian national was …
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June 17, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A German national was arrested on the island of Kos in the early morning hours of Friday. Against the 30-year-old man there was an international arrest warrant for participating in a far-right extremist organization. German police officers had traveled to Greece to arrest him and th eoperation was carried out …
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May 29, 2022
Social, Society
UK national on vacations on the island of Samos, ARCHIBALD GREEN, 73 years old, went missing on May 26, 2022. He went missing On Thursday morning in the area of Marina by Pythagorio, Greece’s Silver Alter service said in a Missing bulletin. Green has blue eyes, is 1.90 m tall and …
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May 20, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
An unprecedented violation of Greece’s national sovereignty by Turkish fighter jets on Friday: they reached 2.5 nautical miles off the port city of Alexandroupolis in north-eastern Greece. Angry reaction by the Greek Foreign Ministry that issued a statement condemning “the very clear escalation of Turkish provocations.” Foreign Ministry statement “We …
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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 5, 2022
Uncategorized
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce the national support plan aiming to relief households and businesses from exorbitant electricity rates. The televised message will be broadcast at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The new measures are scheduled to be presented in detail on Friday, May 6, by the finance and the …
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