September 3, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The public prosecutor in Athens has launched investigation into the death of a 54-year-old woman, a Covid-19 patient, who refused intubation while in the Intensive Care Unit and sought legal assistance to support her case with posts on social media. However, in the end, the patient was intubated and died. …
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August 20, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Police on the island of Mykonos raided a rented villa where a private party with a few hundred participants was under way. The raid of the villa in Ftelia area took place in the early hours of Thursday. According to local media, some 500 people had been attending the party. …
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February 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Social
Hardly has the first confirmed case of coronavirus case in Thessaloniki has been announced and the residents of the second biggest city of Greece quickly found their way to to the supermarkets. They load their carts with staples like pasta, rice, milk, baby and powder milk, toilet paper and detergents. …
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November 12, 2019
Very Mix
A shocking surprise for 300 people in an Athens night-club on Saturday night: Police officers raided the entertainment facility and ordered the young customers to get on their knees with the hands behind their head. A group of ten police officers of anti-drugs department reportedly entered the club in Gazi …
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October 20, 2019
Greece
Freaking unbelievable. Police raided a movie theater in down town Athens on Sunday, because minors under 18 were watching the Joker. Aim of the police operation was to remove the minors from the movie theater and also their parents in case they were accompanied their youngsters. According to eyewitnesses, there …
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August 30, 2019
Greece
One more sequel of the Greek Police series “Law and order” took place in Exarchia on Thursday night. Riot police raided a squat cafe and used tear gas against the people, although it is illegal to fire tear gas in close environment. According to reports, police forces broke the door …
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February 11, 2018
Greece, Politics
Police raided the house of a close associate of New Democracy Vice-President Adonis Georgiadis on Saturday. The raid was part of the ongoing investigation into the Novartis bribery case. Citing sources, athensnewsagency notes that the raid was ordered by the corruption prosecutor who is handling the case and who will …
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January 10, 2018
Greece, Politics
Hundreds of Communist party KKE unionists from PAME stormed the Labor Ministry in Athens on Tuesday demanding cancellation of the new strike law introduced in the latest omnibus bill with prior actions dictated by the country’s lenders. Using crowbars, about 500 PAME protesters prised open metal shutters of the labor …
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January 6, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Investigators raided the office and the Manhattan home of the billionaire Michael H. Steinhardt on Friday afternoon, carrying off several ancient works, Prosecutors say the antiquities were looted from Greece and Italy. Mr. Steinhardt, a hedge-fund manager and philanthropist, has been collecting art from ancient Greece for three decades and …
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December 5, 2017
Greece, Politics
Furious about the new Strike Law, unionists stormed into the building of Labor Ministry in Athens, other protesters tried to overturn police vehicles near the Prime Minister’s office and clashed with police. Riot police fired tear gas in order to hinder the angry unionists from coming too close to the …
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October 25, 2017
Social
Members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas raided the office of a clinic director in Public Hospital Evaggelismos in downtown Athens on Wednesday. Accusing him of taking money under the hand (fakelaki) by patients, they threatened him they “would cut his hand off” if he would do it again. In a …
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September 13, 2017
Social
A group of ten workers at the Eldorado Gold mines managed to bypass police and entered the Development and Environment Ministry in Athens on Wednesday morning. Miners clashed with riot police when a larger group attempted to enter the ministry. Police made limited use of teargas. The 150 workers had …
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March 2, 2017
Society
A group of people wearing hoods and holding sticks raided a notary office in downtown Athens and smashed everything they came across. the anarchists group Rubicon claimed responsibility for the raid. A video shows the anarchists wearing hoods and scarves on their faces as wells as gloves in their hands. …
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February 8, 2017
Society
Angry firefighters broke the main entrance of the Greek Ministry for Administrative Reforms on Wednesday and forced themselves into the building demanding a meeting with the minister. Thousands of firefighters gathered in downtown Athens to protest over their labor contracts that are about to expire. They staged a protest outside …
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January 4, 2017
Very Mix
Corruption prosecutors raided the offices of Swiss drug maker Novartis in Athens a few days ago as part of an ongoing investigation over bribery allegations, sources told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Tuesday. According to the same sources, the prosecutors requested a thorough search to gather electronic data and documents …
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December 16, 2015
Society
Another incident of violence by a group of people wearing helmets and hoods occurred on Tuesday evening in Exarchia district of Athens. This time the victim was Vassilis Oikonomou, MP for conservative New Democracy. The group, some 10 people, entered the restaurant where the conservative lawmaker was enjoying dinner with …
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December 15, 2015
Economy
Economic prosecutors raided the branch of UBS Swisss bank in Athens, confiscated the bank archives and identified 200 bank accounts involved in tax evasion. According to Greek media, the cross-check of the bank accounts was based on the data Greek authorities have recently received by the German Federal State of …
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November 7, 2013
Politics
More than 15 riot police squads raided the building of former public broadcaster ERT at 4 a.m. Thursday morning. The raid took place five months after the overnight shut down of ERT on June 11th 2013. ERT personnel was sacked. Journalists and technicians had been occupying ERT since then and …
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October 24, 2013
Society
This Greek state never stops to surprises us. Units of Greek police and the National Organization for Medicines (EOF) raided the Metropolitan health clinic of Hellinikon (MKIE)on Thursday morning after an complaint to the Narcotic section of the police headquarters. “A complaint to Greek police claimed of uncontrolled drug trafficking …
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