January 3, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
The brutal, racist attack against a Roma man with mental disabilities in Patras is shocking. The 35-year-old man who singing the carols on New Year’s Eve was forced by a group of thugs to get on his knees and sing. Then they threw some inflammable liquid at him and set …
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September 14, 2020
Refugees
A member of the National Guard on the island of Lesvos was dismissed after posting on social media that he was longing to fire against refugees and migrants. The lieutenant general of the Military Body responsible for the National Guard Battalion dismissed the man early Monday morning just hours after …
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November 1, 2019
Greece
Residents of Skydra in West Macedonia has threatened to take “the guns” should refugees and migrants settle their area as the government plans in order to decongest the overcrowded islands. They will “take the law in their hands and defend themselves and their families with rifles,” they say, claiming that …
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March 20, 2019
Refugees
Greek police said that they are investigating a possible racist motive in the violent attack by a group of hooded men against a group of Afghan minors in the town of Konitsa, North-West Greece, last Sunday. Five men wearing hoods and armed with clubs attacked nine unaccompanied Afghan minors who …
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August 23, 2018
Very Mix
As if we did not have enough racists at home, now we also import some. A Diaspora Greek from South Africa triggered a huge outrage due to his racist comments. In a video that has gone viral, entrepreneur Adam Catsavelos is heard boasting about being on a Greek beach without …
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May 16, 2018
Refugees
A brutal racists attack with a group of young people against a 36-year-old man from Pakistan took place in Peristeri suburb of West Athens on Sunday night. The victim said, the attackers, some 10 people, approached him and started to beat him for no reason. According to his complaint to …
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May 2, 2018
Turkey-GR
Racist graffiti has been written on the wall of the Armenian Surp Takavor Church in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district, weekly newspaper Agos has reported. Graffiti reading “This homeland is ours” was inscribed on the wall and a pile of trash was also dumped in front of the church’s door. Upon examination …
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April 23, 2018
Politics, Refugees
The Hellenic League for Human Rights condemns the racist violent attacks against refugees and migrants on the island of Lesvos on Sunday. Expressing its particular concern, the HLHR said in a statement issued on Monday, the attacks ’cause dismay’, the ‘no arrests of perpetrators pose serious questions and requite further …
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November 22, 2017
Very Mix
A Greek academic local media describe as “professor” caused a social media outcry after describing National Basketball Association (NBA) sensation Giannis Antetokounmpo as “a black guy pretending to be Greek.” The man is reportedly employed at the University College of London. Evangelos Markopoulos made his comment on Facebook in a …
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November 9, 2017
Uncategorized
A group calling themselves “Crypteia” claimed responsibility for the racist attack at the home of 11-year-old Afghan boy Amir in an Athens suburb last Friday. An member called Greek news website iefimerida.gr on Monday and threatened “We will fight until the last immigrant leaves. And to that end, we will …
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November 3, 2017
Refugees
It was a horror night for the family of 11-year-old Afghan boy Amir who gained publicity after he was not allowed to carry the Greek flag at the school parade on October 28th. Unknown assailants threw stones at the family home in Dafni suburb of south Athens and left a …
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October 9, 2017
Greece, Politics
Two migrant workers were attacked in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, on Saturday. The Pakistani nationals were working on a farm when a “hit-squad” consisting of five men surrounded them hurling racist slurs, beat them with knuckled-dusters and stabbed them with knives. The brutally beaten men were heavily injured transferred to …
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August 26, 2017
World
Things are getting out of control over there, in the United States of Donald Trump. An obviously racist woman full of prejudice harasses a Mexican family driving through her neighborhood. She preforms a citizens arrest on a Mexican family. The self-proclaimed ‘police’ asks the poor family for driving license, when …
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March 11, 2017
Turkey-GR, World
Short before the crisis with the Netherlands broke out, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusloglu attacked Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos. He is a member of a “racist party” Cavusoglu said on Friday and warned Greece of an “accident” in the Aegean Sea. Speaking at CNN-Turk, Cavusoglu claimed that it is …
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September 23, 2015
Politics
Greeks are stunned. Possibly, also some members of the Independent Greeks, Tsipras’ junior coalition partner, wonder about the appointment of Dimitris Kammenos from ANEL as deputy minister in the new cabinet. The ANEL lawmaker has been known in the local tweeter-sphere for his antisemitic, racist and homophobic stance as well …
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May 7, 2013
Culture, Society
Many Greeks were stunned to hear poet Kiki Dimoula sitting on the xenophobic bench. Speaking at an event organized by movement Atenistas, Kiki Dimoula let the public know “I can’t stand migrants in Kypseli. They occupy all benches.” Dimoula reportedly also said “I am afraid to come out of home, because they steal”. …
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September 21, 2012
Society
What is the purpose of adding oil to the fire when there is already tension anyway? Head of Muslim Association in Greece labeled Prime Minister Antonis Samaras as Greece’s “biggest racist.” Naim El-Ghandour was speaking at a press conference in Athens, where writers, journalists and academics criticized the provocative film The Innocence …
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