January 30, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Dialogues between high-ranking officers of the Greek Police EL.AS. with bosses of criminal gangs were published by newspaper To Vima on Sunday. According to the newspaper claims, a total of 27 police officers seem to have been involved in criminal activities offering protection to gangs mostly active in fuel trafficking. …
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January 16, 2023
Greece, Politics
Another 400 border patrol officers will be hired in 2023 to better protect Greece’s borders, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos announced on Friday. The minister was speaking after a meeting of his at the Ropodi region’s police headquarters on matters of security and migration. Some 250 of these border patrol …
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December 14, 2022
Greece, Politics
The pre-trial hearing of MEP Eva Kaili has been postponed to December 22, media in Greece report from Brussels on Wednesday afternoon. She did not appear at the hearing, where it will be decided whether she will remain in custody or be released on conditions. The postponement has been confirmed …
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December 13, 2022
Social, Society
Carrying banners and shouting “Murderers” thousands of Greeks protest in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities for the death of 16-year-old Kostas Fragoulis, an unarmed Roma boy shot in the head by a police officer. At the time, angry members of Roma communities across the country have started fires and …
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December 5, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 16-year-old Roma boy has been shot in the head and is in critical condition after a surgery. The boy had reportedly tanked for 20 euros and left without paying the bill. He was shot in the head after a pursuit by the police. According to media, the teenager drove …
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November 17, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Thousands of Greeks marched through central Athens and other cities on Thursday to mark the 49th anniversary of a violently quashed students’ uprising in 1973 that helped topple the military junta which then ruled the country. Thousands demonstrate during the Polytechnic Uprising anniversary in Athens, while 5000+ police officers are …
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November 14, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Over 5,500 police officers are being deployed across Greek capital Athens for the events of November 17, when Greeks will honor the 49th anniversary Students’ Uprising against the military junta. The 3-day events start on Tuesday at the Athens Polytechnic School in downtown Athens next to the National Museum and …
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October 18, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A police major operation at Greece’s Krystallopigi border control check point at the border with Albania has led in the arrest of at least 14 people: seven police and customs officers and seven civilians of Albanian nationality. the operation of the Internal Affairs Unit of the Greek police followed a …
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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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