June 13, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A new lawsuit filed against former transport minister Kostas Karamanlis and his deputy Michalis Papadopoulos over the deadly train collision at Tempi in 2023 has been forwarded to Parliament. The lawsuit, filed jointly by the partner and parents of a victim accuses the former New Democracy ministers of dereliction of …
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April 29, 2024
Society, Very Mix
Six years after the devastating wildfire in Attica’s seaside town of Mati and nearby areas, which claimed 102 lives and left dozens injured, a three-member misdemeanors court issued its verdicts on the 21 defendants on Monday morning. The verdict triggered an outrage among the victims’ relatives who keep demanding justice. …
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February 27, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
They were all there: parents and spouses and children of the 57 people who found a tragic death in the train crash in Tempi on February 28, 2023. One year later, with tears in their eyes and trembling voices, the mourning families held a press conference about the government’s actions …
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June 18, 2023
Society, Very Mix
With pictures on their mobiles or at hand, relatives and friends are desperately searching among the fishing boat survivors for their beloved ones. They have traveled from several countries to Greece to seek for their people with whom they lost contact since Wednesday, June 16, when the fishing boat capsized …
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June 15, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Shipwreck Greece: The Coast Guard in Kalamata, south Peloponnese, announced on Thursday the launch of an inquiry into the sinking of a boat carrying hundreds of migrants in international waters off the coast of the Peloponnese, 47 nautical miles southwest of Pylos. According to an announcement “there is not a …
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May 16, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Relatives of 57 passengers who died during the train collision at Tempi in central Greece in February filed charges against railroad officials and politicians, including the Prime Minister, against 17 people in total, on Tuesday. According to Christos Konstantinidis, spokesperson for the association of victims’ relatives, the latter are suing …
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May 15, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Relatives of the victims of the deadly train collision in Tempi gathered outside the office of New Democracy politician, Costas Karamanlis, who was transport Minister at the time of the tragedy. The mourning relatives who have established an association, traveled to the city of Serres on Sunday to demand Justice …
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December 16, 2022
Social, Society
An Athens court has ruled that the state must pay 300,000 euros in emotional distress damages to the relatives of a 77-year-old woman who died in the eastern Attica wildfires of Mati on 23 July 2018. Five relatives of the victim, who died after leaving her home in the settlement …
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December 7, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Relatives of patients who died of Covid-19 in hospitals in northern Greece are examining the legal options to to appeal to Justice. The patients have died in normal Covid-19 wards in hospitals in Thessaloniki and other cities in the north of the country. The relatives want to know whether their …
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July 24, 2018
Social, Society
The Fire Service urging people who miss relatives and friends in the areas hit by the wildfires to call phone number 199. They have to provide data and information. Δήλωση αγνοουμένων από τις πληγείσες από την #πυρκαγιά περιοχές, καλώντας στο 199. pic.twitter.com/LVBV4AwZFi — Πυροσβεστικό Σώμα (@pyrosvestiki) July 24, 2018
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February 9, 2018
Very Mix
The US State Department and the UK Ambassador to Athens expressed their strong opposition to the second furlough granted to 17. November convicted terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas. “It is extremely disheartening to see an unrepentant convicted terrorist coming out of the prison again,” UK’s ambassador Kate Smith said on Twitter on …
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December 4, 2017
Greece, Politics
The leader of Greece’s main opposition party, conservative New Democracy (ND) Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that any future ND government or state office will not include any of his relatives. Mitsotakis’ decision is a blow to his sister, ND MP Dora Bakoyiannis, a former Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Culture …
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February 25, 2015
Politics
“I am innocent, I deny all charges,” former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou told the Special Court in Athens on the first day of his trial. The ex FinMin of George Papandreou government faces two felony charges in connection with the so-called Lagarde-List containing more than 2,000 names of Greek bank …
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January 2, 2015
Very Mix
Six days after the marine tragedy of Norman Atlantic and the number of missing person still varies largely. According to Italian news network Tg5, while the prosecutor in Bari said on Friday that the missing were 90, Greeks put the number of missing at 18. “The same names are with …
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September 25, 2012
Society
Outraged relatives and friends of murdered Manolis Kantaris tried to lynch his two Afghan murderers, after a court convicted them to life sentence. Only with big effort, police managed to take the situation under control and lead the convicted away from the angry relatives and friends. Manolis Kantaris, 44, was stabbed …
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