Without proper equipment and special training, however, armed with garden hoses, sprinkling cans and water buckets they probably found on the sport, carrying their weapons and wearing their helmets, Greek policemen did whatever they could to help contain the big wildfire raging at Penteli mountain in the northern outskirts of …
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Turkish nationals seeking asylum use paragliding to reach Greece UPD
Two Turkish nationals flew a paraglider and landed in Karystos on the island of Evia seeking political asylum. According to an exclusive report by local media evima.gr the paragliding crashed in the sea area of Bouros early Saturday evening. Port authorities picked up the two people and transferred them to …
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Turkish policemen, PKK members on fishing boat seized by Greek Coast Guard
Greek Coast Guard seized a fishing boat with dozens of Turkish and Kurdish dissidents seeking refuge from Erdogan’s regime in Europe. On board of “Nemo” were 65 people, also refugees from Afghanistan and Iraqi Kurdistan.. According to local news website ilialive, 20 Turkish police officers, 10 Kurds members of PKK, …
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Greece deploys hundreds of policemen to Evros as tension with Turkey rises
Greece is deploying 300 to 400 officers from across the country to Evros river at the land border with Turkey to bolster local forces. These officers are members of riot police, crime combating units and border guards who will patrol mainly in Ferres, the Ardas river and in Tychero. At …
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Shocking video: Angry locals raid hotel, beat riot policemen on Chios
The already tense situation on the island of Chios went completely out of control on Wednesday when a group of angry locals raided a hotel where riot policemen from Athens are accommodated. They first entered the rooms that were empty and threw away from windows and balconies everything they found …
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Two policemen arrested for being involved in migrants’ trafficking ring
Two police officers were arrested for being involved in migrants’ trafficking helping migrant to cross from Turkey into Greece via the Evros river. It is the second case in a week where policemen are accused of such illegal actions. The two officers were arrested in Soulfi, North East Greece on …
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Court clears 18 riot policemen of charges for excessive violence in June 2011 protest
All the Greek police officers on trial for charges of excessive use of violence and tear gas against anti-austerity protests on 28. and 29. June 2011 have been found not guilty. The One-Member First Instance Court in Athens ruled on Wednesday that all 18 police officers were not guilty. The …
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Athens: Strikes and angry protesters trying to raid the Health Ministry (videos)
Angry workers at public hospitals attempted to raid the Health Ministry in downtown Athens on Thursday. They set a wire fence and hanged ‘blood’ soaked uniforms. They later set them on fire. They clashed with riot police, while one protester fainted due to the tense atmosphere. Video: protesters try to …
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Bad coordination: Dutch policemen on Lesvos to assist returns to Turkey, 2300 EU-staff for asylum procedures …absent
Seventeen policemen from the Netherlands arrived on the island of Lesvos on Thursday afternoon. According to local EmprosNet.gr, “the policemen arrived on a C-130 and are to be involved in the return of migrants and refugees back to Turkey,” as the EU-Turkey deal foresees. Citing local authority sources, EmprosNet reports …
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FYROM tear-gasses refugees awaiting to cross, Austria, Czech Rep sent police units
The situation at Greece’s northern borders escalated when police on the FYROM side fired tear gas and stun grenades against refugees Monday noon. A few hundred of refugees, women and men holding their kids in their arms took down the border fence, broke a gate and tried to enter FYROM. …
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Attackers with helmets beat 3 ticket controllers in Omonoia metro station
an organized attack against ticket controllers in the middle of downtown Athens. A group of some 20 people wearing helmets attacked three ticket controllers standing at the pier of the Metro station in Omonoia on Monday evening. According to media, the group arrived at the metro pier and started to …
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UPD Athens: draconian security measures due to students’ parade
It’s not German Chancellor Angela Merkel coming to Greece, neither US-President Barrack Obama on an official visit. It’s only the students’ parade on the occasion of “25th March” National Day commemorating the launch of Greek Independence war against the Ottoman occupation. And yet. Three thousand policemen have taken downtown Athens …
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Why should policemen guard ex king’s summer house on 24/7?
Why should an ex king’s summer home need police guards on 24-hour basis? On the cost of taxpayers and thus in austerity times where there is lack of personnel? Oh, apparently because the man moves to Greece from UK to spend the summer months here and live his very own …
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German policemen at Greek airports to check travellers bound to Germany
Serious questions have been raised by the intergovernmental agreement, according to which German police officers will be placed in major Greek airports to check travelers bound for Germany. The implementation of the decisions of the Lisbon Treaty and the Dublin should logically be performed by Greek civil servants and not …
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Policemen express sympathy to colleagues arrested on suspicion of drug dealers protection
Some twenty policemen gathered on Friday morning outside a court in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, to express sympathy and solidarity for two colleagues arrested for allegedly offering protection to a network of drug dealers. The solidarity protesters cheered and welcomed the defendants as …heroes when the two were taken to court in handcuffs …
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Athens: Tax, Customs and Police Officers in Anti-Austerity Protest
A day after the mass protest in Athens, tax and customs officers as well as policemen staged protest actions to oppose the upcoming additional wages cuts. Tax and customs officers are on 48-hour strike, today Thursday and tomorrow Friday, September 27-28, 2012. “We oppose any further cuts in our wages, …
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Athens: Protesters Boo FinMin, Riot Police Fires Tear Gas Against Protesting Policemen
This that did not happened a couple of weeks ago, occurred on Thursday morning. Riot Police fired tear gas against protesting policemen, firefighters and coastal guards. Riot Police vs Protesting Police According to Greek media, the unionists had formed a human chain outside the Maximos Mansion in order to prevent …
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Protesting Policemen Set “Gallows” Outside Greek Finance Ministry (video, picts)
Powerful pictures, full of symbolism: one policeman, one firefighter and one coastal guard “hang” themselves outside the Greek Finance Ministry in downtown Athens, near the Greek Parliament. They stand there for a couple of minutes. Silent. The crowd chants: “Thieves! Thieves! Thieves!” Video: Protesting Policemen – Gallows outside the Finance Ministry/slogans …
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Greece to Molibilze Policemen in order to Combat Crime and Illegal Immigration
Several thousands Greek policemen will be mobilized in order to combat the dramatically increasing of crime and illegal immigration, it was announced by Minister for Citizen Protection Nikos Dendias. On Monday he said, that he has given orders so that 1,500 policemen available for the security of persons and other potential targets to be transferred to …
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Athens: Blind Violence Breaks Out as Roma Crowd Attacks Public Bus, Injures 6 Policemen
Bind violence broke out in Athens as crowd of angry Roma members attacked a public bus carrying passengers. A group of some 150 people started to throw stones, wooden and iron sticks and other items at the bus of the line B12 Ano Liosia-Athens. The horrified passengers and bus driver fled …
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