September 17, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greek riot police fired tear gas and made use of a water cannon during clashes with students in Thessaloniki on Friday night. The clashes in the city center and main Egnatia road erupted after police fired tear gas on a concert attended by some 5,000 people in the campus of …
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August 29, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) announced on Monday it will be investigating the National Intelligence Service (EYP), along with units of the Hellenic Police. In its statement, the regulator said in particular it would be investigating the police’s Special Violent Crime Squad and the Intelligence Division. …
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August 25, 2022
Very Mix
Greek authorities arrested a 37-year-old foreign national with an outstanding European arrest warrant issued by German authorities. The arrest took place at the airport of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Wednesday. The man has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for e-mail and telephone fraud amounting to roughly 1.5 million euros. …
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June 17, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Citizen’s Protection Ministry will hire another 600 special guards for enhance police forces in the university campuses, it was announced on Thursday. The 600 will be added to the 400 who have completed their training last month and were scheduled to assume their duties in early June. However, the …
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June 10, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A huge blow to a cocaine trafficking ring in Thessaloniki ended with the arrest of four British nationals, who have been living in Greece for about one year. Police seized 300 kilos of cocaine shipped to Greece’s second largest port in a freight of bananas. The seizure of cocaine had …
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June 10, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A total of 308 reported incidents of abusive targeting of young people and other vulnerable groups by officers of the law due to their national, ethnic or racial origin are noted in the Greek Ombudsman’s 2021 report that was released on Thursday. The independent authority, which also operates as the …
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May 16, 2022
Greece, Politics
400 special guards complete their training tomorrow, Tuesday, and after a few days off they will start patrols in two big university campuses, Minister for Citizen Protection, Takis Theodorikakos, said on Monday. He added the university police will assume their duties in early June. Theodoriakos said further that the first …
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May 11, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Plenary Session of the Council of State ruled on Wednesday that a university police force which is also composed of special guards, does not violate the principles of academic freedom and full self-governance of higher education institutions. According to the announcement, it was unanimously ruled that “no provision of …
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April 12, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Greek law enforcement authorities were on alert on Tuesday after a makeshift explosive device went off outside the home of a high-ranking officer of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri. The rudimentary bomb comprised four cooking gas canisters taped together and set off by some …
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January 17, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 46-year-old man who brutally beat his partner and sent her to the ICU with very severe injuries appeared at the police in Athens today after the expiration of the 48-hour inflagranti deadline that sends criminal directly behind bars. The man was accompanied by his lawyer. With punches and kicks …
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December 28, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greek citizens now have the option to save in the Covid-free GR Wallet application, in addition to the vaccination, disease or diagnostic certificates, their identity card. According to a joint press release of the Ministries of Digital Governance and Citizen Protection, as of Tuesday, December 28, the new version of …
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December 26, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greek Police had carried out a total 55,005 inspections on the second day since the new measures against Covid-19 went into effect, on December 24.. The inspections carried out throughout Greece resulted into 6 arrests, 369 fines for not wearing a mask and the operation suspension of four stores. According …
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December 23, 2021
Very Mix
Police officers of the counter-terror division in Athens have arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of having links to the ISIS terrorist organization, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) announced. The suspect, identified only as an Iraqi national, had been previously arrested on December 7, 2021 on migrant smuggling charges and was …
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November 16, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
“It’s a matter of luck that we are not mourning for a child,” secretary general of special guards of Greek Police, Stratos Mavroidakos, stressed on Tuesday, when he spoke of juvenile delinquency that has reached in Greece “alarming levels” as he said. Victims of juvenile delinquents are mostly children of …
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November 15, 2021
Society, Very Mix
Some 6,000 police officers on the ground, helicopters and drones in the air, will be deployed in Athens at the anniversary of the Polytechnic School Students’ Uprising on November 17. The operational police plan includes, among other, the guarding of universities, government buildings and embassies. At the same time, there …
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November 3, 2021
Politics, World
Turkish police has launched a legal probe into dozens of social media users for allegedly spreading the rumor that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has died. A relevant hashtag “he is apparently dead” #olmus in Turkish has been trending on Twitter since Wednesday morning bringing the fragile Turkish Lira into turbulence. …
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October 29, 2021
Social, Society
The 54-year-old man who was threatening to commit suicide after brutally killing his wife surrendered to police on Friday afternoon after seven hours of negotiations. Early Friday morning he had lurked his 48-year-old ex wife and mother of four and stabbed her to death in Peristera village by Ierapetra in south …
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October 26, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
Relentless questions about the killing of the young unarmed Roma Nikos Sampanis remain unanswered still four days after the shootout in Perama late last Friday. Seven police officers involved in the shooting remain detained in the headquarters of the Greek Police as the communication between the police operation center and …
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October 26, 2021
Social, Society
An Athens prosecutor has ordered a preliminary probe into allegations of police negligence and indifference regarding complaints made by the neighbors of a 40-year-old over his delinquent demeanor before he shot and killed a 43-year-old and injured another on Saturday in the northern suburb of Nea Erythraia. The man shot …
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October 10, 2021
Archeology
The intact marble column with Hermes ancient Greek pottery objects and silver coins were among the priceless artifacts seized in Ilia, Peloponnese, during a police operation on Friday. The marble column depicting Hermes is 71 centimeter tall and has male genitals on it. In the antique, Hermes was the god …
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