September 30, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 55-year-old taxi driver has been arrested for assaulting a 33-year-old transgender woman and her companion. The woman underwent surgery and has been hospitalized. The incident took place in central Athens early Thursday morning, September 26, 2024. According to the police report, the 33-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man hailed …
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August 6, 2024
FEATURED, Sports
Star athlete Emmanouil “Manolo” Karalis won the bronze medal at the Paris Olympic Games in the pole vault finals on Monday night and he was glorified on social media. The young vaulter known in the country as “Manolo” won a medal not only with his leap but also he won …
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January 2, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
The celebrations in downtown Athens on the New Year’s Eve triggered a racist rand against a 10-year-old girl and the waving of Palestinian flags by the audience. Exciting little girl on stage during the countdown The feast was organized by the new major of Greek capital Haris Doukas (PASOK) and …
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November 7, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“What I will wish for in 100 years is that Europe does not become dark-skinned by force.” This shocking statement was not made by some far-right politician but by former PASOK MP, minister, and European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (1999-2004), Anna Diamantopoulou. She stunned some of …
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August 23, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A video with a racist delirium depicts a man going out into the streets of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece, “arresting” migrants and refugees, as if he was the local …sheriff! The man, an Albanian national and well-known constructor in the area, and well as two Greek accomplices have been detained …
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October 31, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 14-year-old student fell victim of an unprecedented and horrifying racist attack at a high school of Istiaia, in central Greece. The boy was dragged outside the classroom by a group of older students wearing hoods. According to the mother’s complaint to newspaper avgi,, initially a group of 5-6 youngsters …
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May 7, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
A racist incident took place on a public bus in downtown Athens when the bus driver bullied a foreign national for keeping a vacant seat next to him as dictated by the measures against the pandemic. The tension started when a passenger on an A11 bus asked the foreign national …
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September 7, 2020
Greece
Sixty school cleaners were excluded form hiring this school year because of law change that now requires that they must have Greek language certificates and have Greek citizenship. According to the teachers’ union Parthenon, the cleaners were excluded from hiring in schools within the Municipality of Athens and they worked …
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July 24, 2020
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greek Freak, Giannis Antetokounmpo, became the target of the racist rant by an official at the Greek Education Ministry who is also said to be coordinator of refugees’ education and intercultural instructor at the Council of Europe. The unprecedented vulgar omments of the xenophobic ‘educator’ triggered an outrage in Greece. …
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March 5, 2020
Very Mix
Racists in Volos, Central Greece, have created an group on Facebook with the despicable name “Association of hunters of illegal migrants.” Theis aim is reportedly to “clean Volos of migrants” and to travel to Evros to help the national guards to prevent illegal entries. Through their Facebook page they invited …
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February 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
The coronavirus outbreak in China has triggered a series of racist abuse around the globe. Reports coming from Europe, the US and Australia confirm that Chinese in particular and even people who look “Asian” fall victim to harassment. At the same time, lurid lurid conspiracy theories flood the internet and …
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January 26, 2020
Social
Four policemen have suspended from duty after a video caught one of them slapping an 11-year-old boy in Menidi suburb of western Athens. The incident became known after the father brought the beaten and terrified to a hospital and a medical worker posted the case on social media. According to …
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December 2, 2019
Greece
The Greek Helsinki Monitor has filed two lawsuits against former prime minister, Antonis Samaras, and current Shipping Minister, Yannis Plakiotis, for “spreading false news on racist motives and public incitement to discrimination and hatred against refugees.” The lawsuits refer to a speech by Samaras at the New Democracy congress on …
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November 10, 2019
Greece
Members of the organization “United Macedonians” brought their barbecue in the central square of Diavata, Northern Greece, set the charcoal on fire and started to grill their pork souvlaki on Sunday morning. The action aims to provoke Muslims in the nearby refugee and migrants camp. The smell of grilled pork …
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November 7, 2019
Very Mix
The racism virus has infected also pupils in Giannitsa, Central Macedonia. Pupils from the vocational high school held a protest against refugees and migrants on Friday. Holding Greek flags, they chanted “Illegals out of schools.” Video: Some 50 pupils first occupied their school and later marched through the center of …
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October 31, 2019
Greece, Politics
A war of words broke out between a MEP and a government Minister, both from New Democracy, due to a statement about disabilities. It was Minister for Rural Development, Makis Voridis, who insulted people with disabilities when he commented on the controversial silly walks event during the 28. October parade. …
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September 4, 2019
Greece
Theodoros Giannaros, member of ruling conservative New Democracy party and the party’s working group for Health launched a vicious racist attack on a refugee, describing him as a “monkey”. Arash Hampay, a refugee from Iran living in Greece, posted a photo on twitter and wrote: “Fascists, I’m OK with my …
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July 2, 2019
Social
Giannis Antetokounmpo has revealed that just six years ago he was scared of leaving the house as he feared he might be deported. Born to Nigerian parents in Athens, Greece, the Milwaukee Bucks star did not hold a passport or any form of IDs until he became a Greek when …
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June 30, 2019
Greece
An elected mayor in Northern Greece wants to build a wall around a Roma settlement even if it is illegal and against the Constitution and no public servant, no matter how racist one is could ever isolate a group of the country’s own citizens. Mayor of Thermaikos in Central Macedonia, …
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February 19, 2019
Refugees
Unknown perpetrators staged an attack with Molotof cocktail bombs against an apartment where refugees from Iraq have been living in Neapoli, Thessaloniki, northern Greece. At the time of the attack, two women and eight children aged 1 to 15 years, were sleeping inside the home, state broadcaster ERT TV reported. …
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