Large-scale police operations with dozens of police officers and special units have been taking place in Roma camps in western Athens since Thursday morning following ongoing riots over the shooting of a 16-year-old Roma boy by a policeman. Special units police officers with riot police squads and patrol cars moved …
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Attiki Odos: Policeman carries little girl on his back into safety (video)
A man is carrying a little girl on his back on a snowed road in the middle of the night. The man is a policeman and the girl a patient who needs to be operated in a hospital early Tuesday morning. The picture was shot at half an hour after …
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Protesters clash with police in Nea Smyrni, one policeman seriously injured (videos)
One policeman was seriously injured on the head and another two suffered slight injuries when riot police clashed with angry protesters in Nea Smyrni suburb of south Athens on Tuesday evening. The rally against police violence started from the main square and thousands marched to the local police station. According …
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Two minors, aged 15 & 17, one policeman arrested for brutal beating of metro worker
Two minors, aged 15 and 17, as well as a special guard policeman have been arrested for the brutal assault of a metro worker in downtown Athens last Wednesday. They were arrested late on Friday night after the victim identified them as his attackers. They face felony charges for the …
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Evros: Police dismisses reports “policeman injured by guards & citizens on patrol”
An unprecedented incident has allegedly taken place in the Evros river: National guards and armed vigilantes on patrol have shot and injured one policeman “mistakenly thinking he was a migrant,” media have been reporting since early Sunday afternoon. According to media reports, a group of national guards and local were …
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Policeman off duty pulls gun at students in Athens University (video)
A police officer off duty pulled his gun in the courtyard of the Economics University in Athens on Monday afternoon. He heavily beaten by students, before riot police squads could rescue him. A video posted on social media shows the police officer from the special guards units being attacked by …
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Chios: Policeman helps Syrian refugee give birth to a baby girl
A policeman serving on the island of Chios has helped a refugee woman from Syria to give birth to a healthy baby girl on Friday evening. The young officer had neither relevant training nor idea about a child birth but he was ‘armed’ with the right instinct and composure. The …
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Business with migrants: Policeman arrested on Kos, doctors on Samos
On two islands in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greek Police has cracked down illegal networks that were earning money from asylum seekers facilitating them either to fly to European countries or to be relocated to the mainland. On the island of Samos, it was doctors, nurses and other personnel that …
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One policeman injured during attack by group of anarchists in Exarchia
Suspected anarchists attacked a motorcycled police team in Exarchia district of Athens, injuring one policeman on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened in Tositsa and Zaimi streets when the the team of the DIAs section of Greek police ELAS riders were patrolling. At 16:45 police officers made a signal to two …
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Chania: Retired policeman found dragging a dog tied with a rope on his vehicle
A retired policeman was found to have been dragging his dog tied with a rope to his vehicle on a highway in Chania, Crete, on Wednesday. The dog was been dragged over several kilometers and got severe injuries on his paws due to the violent contact with the asphalt. Although …
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Moria: Shockingly vulgar verbal attack by policeman at elderly migrant (video)
Recorded footage with the disgraceful swearing and bulling against an elderly migrant woman in the camp of Moria on the island of Lesvos has been widely circulating on social and mainstream media and websites on Saturday. Many Greek declare that they feel utterly “ashamed.” The scene takes place after the …
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Greek Police arrests policeman beaten by Pakistani migrants in Nikaia
The police officer who was found to have been beaten by Pakistani nationals in Nikaia was arrested by Greek Police on Friday. The 34-year-old policeman faces charges for robbery in complicity, while police is seeking for two of his accomplices, Greek Police said in a statement. Από τη Διεύθυνση Εσωτερικών …
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Weird incident: Pakistanis beat and tie police officer off duty
A weird incident. Pakistani nationals have beaten and tied a policeman in an apartment Nikaia suburb of Piraeus. Police arrived at the apartment in early morning hours of Thursday following a phone call by a neighbor who heard somebody calling for help. Officers were surprised to find a colleague of …
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Policeman among 3 men identified to be involved in Boutaris attack
Three more men have been identified to have participated in the mass attack against the mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, last Saturday, Greek police announced late on Thursday. The three men are aged 43, 44 and 67. They face charges for insult and disruption of public peace. They are to …
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Protester beats riot policeman during anti-war demo in Thessaloniki (video)
A protester throws a riot policeman on the ground and beats him with punches on several parts of his body. A policeman rushed to help his colleague on the ground and used his baton against the attacker who left without being arrested. The incident took place at the Plateia Mall …
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Ex Greek policeman arrested in Albania for the murder of leader of drug trafficking gang
Albanian police has said it has arrested a disgraced Greek policeman for the murder of an Albanian drug deal, the leader of one of the toughest gangs in the country. The arrested Greek is a former member of Greek Police Special Forces was was dismissed for the post in 2012 …
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UPD Policeman kills wife, child, mother-in-law and commits suicide
An active policeman has killed his wife, his four-year-old daughter and his mother-in-law and committed suicide. The tragedy was discovered Monday noon, when relatives informed the police that they had no contact to the family. Police broke the entrance door in the family home in Agioi Anargyroi suburb of West …
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Young Greek model arrested at Hong Kong airport with 2.6kg cocaine
A 19-year-old Greek model was arrested at the Hong Kong international airport carrying 2.6kg cocaine worth HK$2.4million ($300,000, €310,00). She faces life sentence. The local community on the island of Lesvos is shocked as the young woman is the daughter of a respected policeman. The woman arrived to Hong Kong …
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Retired policeman arrested for sending bullets to gov’t officials, Muslim communities
Greek police arrested a retired policeman accused to have sent envelopes containing bullets and threats to government officials among them the governor of Bank of Greece, journalists and Muslim communities in Athens.. In a statement, the Counter-Terror Department of Greek Police said that ten cases of sent envelopes containing bullets …
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Chios: Syrian refugee set himself on fire, police officer injured too
A Syrian refugee set himself on fire in the hot spot of VIAL on the island of Chios on Thursday noon. A policeman who attempted to save him was also injured though slighter than the man. The refugee is in critical condition as he suffered severe burn injuries 85% of …
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