November 2, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
The “rapist with tattoo” of Palaio Faliro, a 45-year old Albanian national who fled to his home-country to escape arrest, was arrested by Albanian authorities and extradited to Greece in the early morning hours of Tuesday. After Greece issued an international arrest warrant, Albanian police located the man in his …
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June 13, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism
This small port for boats in Athens Riviera is certainly one of the kind. The port between Floisvos and Batis in Palaio Faliro is closed from all sides, including the one to the sea. A literally “safe refuge” for small, hobby fishing boats. When a team of UpDrones/Good Droning sent …
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March 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A citizen in Palaio Faliro suburb of southern Athens turned his balcony into a disco on Saturday night, the sixth day of the lockdown in Greece. The creative man was armed with a wide repertoire of music choices and powerful loudspeakers. Neighbors came out on the balconies and joined the …
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February 6, 2020
Social
Two elderly women were rescued from a fire that broke out in an fifth-floor apartment in Palaio Faliro suburb of southern Athens on Thursday morning. Both women were transferred to hospital. One suffered injuries in hands, legs and face, the second had respiratory issues. Based on footage from the scene, …
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September 22, 2019
Social
Authories are on alert due to the parental abductions of a 2.5-year-old girl, Athina Hijazi, from Palaio Faliro suburb of south Athens. According to an Amber Alert issued on Sunday, September 22, 2019, Athina Jijazi was abducted by one of her parents in Palaio Faliro at 06:00 p.m. on Friday, …
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June 27, 2018
Very Mix
A 45-year-old man was gunned down in a central street of Palaio Faliro in South Athens around 9 o’ clock on Wednesday morning. The perpetrators used Kalashnikov assault rifle in an attack police evaluates as “turf war” between criminal organizations. The victim was a well-known figure in the underworld of …
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January 18, 2018
Arts, Culture
It was not the gale winds raging overnight that brought down the controversial statue of Phylax in Palaio Faliro, south suburb of Athens. It was a group of fanatics wearing hoods who arrived in the middle of the night to get rid of the statue that has been claimed to …
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January 3, 2018
Arts, Culture
With holy water and prayers religious fanatics exorcised the art, the statue of provocative red Phylax, looming in Palaio Faliro suburb of south Athens. Holding flags from the times of Byzantium, showing the glory of Greek Orthodoxy, icons of saints and singing hymns, the priest and members of the parish …
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December 28, 2017
Arts, Culture
A guardian angel or the fallen angel? Or just an artist expression without secret metaphysical meaning and hidden metaphorical messages? The sculpture PHYLAX installed in Palaio Faliro divides the Greek society and stirs the “Greeks’ moral principles” as usual. Opponents see in the provocative red naked man with wings, the Heosphoros, …
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October 17, 2017
environment
A group of several government officials, including Shipping Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis, went to Palaio Faliro suburb of south Athens on Tuesday morning. In a festive mood, they declared that the beaches along the Palaio Faliro part of the Athens Riviera coastline were free from oil spill pollution. Several swimmers, mostly …
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September 22, 2017
environment
A shocking picture that has gone viral on Greek internet: A woman with legs and hands covered with black fuel oil is coming out from the sea at Batis, in Palaio Faliro, polluted with the tanker oil spill. Batis is one of the beaches in Athens Riviera affected by the …
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September 16, 2017
Very Mix
The body of a woman was found on Friday evening in the sea area off the beach of Batis, in Palaio Faliro, in Athens Riviera. Batis is one of the beaches where swimming has been banned due to the oil spill from the sunken tanker Agia Zoni II. According to …
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September 15, 2017
environment
Shipping minister Panagiotis Kouloumblis stunned and confused residents of Athens, Piraeus and Salamina when he stated Thursday evening on Skai TV that “people can go swimming” there was no problem in Salamina. Indeed. Friday morning, some brave ones wore their bathing suits, packed their things and went for their daily …
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April 4, 2017
Society, Very Mix
An unprecedented gaffe. An armed robber managed to escape arrest hiding for fourteen hours in a closet of the victim’s apartment, despite the police presence and investigation. Four armed robbers broke-in on the apartment of an elderly woman in Palio Faliro suburb of south Athens on Monday morning. They entered …
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September 10, 2015
Very Mix
A world-class aerobatics squadron, a unique spectacle over the heads of swimmers and thousands of spectators. The Athens Flying Week 2015 kicked off on Wednesday, September 9th with the traditional Pre-Show over the “Athens Riviera”, the coats line of Palaio Faliro. The air show began shortly after 18.15 with the …
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November 5, 2012
Society
A shocking picture on Sunday morning: a man tied with an iron chain on a tree. His beaten face was swollen, he was in a stage of shock. Passers by alarmed the police that needed a special tool to cut the chain and free the unlucky victim of a brutal assault. The man, of Egyptian origin …
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May 7, 2011
Culture
Do you feel that life in Athens has become much too miserable? How about some walk through art objects that could please our senses and raise our souls?The Hellenic Art Galleries Association ART-ATHINA, the International Contemporary Fair of Athens, organizes its annual fair at the TAE KWON DO closed stadium at …
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