Tag Archives: Rethymnon

Residents of the village Agia Paraskevi in south Rethmnon on the island of Crete were urged to evacuate on Wednesday afternoon due to a wildfire entering the village. They received evacuation messages via the emergency line of the Civil Protection, while on the ground police officers went door to door …

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The trial of the man arrested for the brutal murder of  American scientist Suzanne Eaton on the island of Crete is scheduled to start in Rethymnon, tomorrow, Tuesday, October 13, 2020. 60-year-old Suzanne Eaton was abducted, raped and killed by a local man while she was jogging in Chania, on …

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Lime, the electric scooter-sharing service, plans to terminate its operations in Athens in the wake of poor economic results. According to a report published by Solomon MAG, after pausing its operations in Greece amid COVID-19, Lime announced to employees it is shutting down its services in Athens. The California-based startup …

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77 years after the Battle of Crete, the Municipality of Rethymno gave a box with soil from the battlefield to Ambassador of Australia. The move followed a request of the Australian government that will put the box  together with another 99 boxes of soil from different battlefields at a monument …

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A 37-year-old Bulgarian woman has been missing since May 2nd 2018 on the Greek island of Crete. For nearly seven years, Desislava Ilieva had a relationship with a local man who was found hanged in the basement of his family home four days after she went missing. The woman went …

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Twenty one days after a young German tourist died on the mountain of Psiloritis by Rethymnon, authorities could finally identify the young man. The body of the 21-year-old has been in the morgue of the hospital of Rethymnon since March 2nd. On March 15, a fire fighter hiking at altitude …

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A 21-year-old man, a German national, died in a hospital in Rethymnon, Crete. He was found by a shepherd in the mountainous area between the villages of Platania and Fourfoura. The young man had suffered multiple injuries and despite the doctors’ efforts he passed away Thursday noon (March 1). Police …

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An unbelievable phenomenon in the sky over the city of Rethymnon on the island of Crete. A covered UFO? A saucer made of cloud particles or a UFO cloud? The very rare phenomenon, a cloud in the shape of a UFO, occurred the other day and the amazing pictures were …

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Two months after the brutal beating of a local in Rethymnon, Crete, police managed to identify the attackers. It was three French tourists, who were on holiday on the island.  The brutally beaten PhD student and a friend were heading home when they were attacked for no reason by people …

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Riot police squads had rushed as early as possible outside a shop in the old city of Rethymnon, Crete, and blocked the street to prevent locals from approaching. A representative of a US Fund was to  install an alarm system at the shop the Fund had seized after buying the …

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A tragedy occurred in Rethymnon in the north of the island of Crete. A father and a mother were drowned when they attempted to pull two of their four children out of the rough sea. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday evening at the beach of Geropotamos. It was short after …

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Police authorities in the Rethymnon prefecture arrested several Greeks, German and Italian nationals over free camping in a protected NATURA area. In a big operation in the Koyrtaliotiko Gorge and Preveli lake in Agios Vassileios Municipality, police arrested 11 Greeks aged 25-54, and four foreigners from Germany and Italy aged …

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Residents on Marouli street in the town of Rethymnon were stunned to see the very original way municipality workers laid a new asphalt carpet outside their homes and shops. They did not bothered much about the parked vehicles and the garbage bins.They just did the job they were assigned to …

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 Strong rainfall and gale winds hit the island of Crete Tuesday night causing unprecedented floods and putting people and animals in danger. The area most affected is the Irakleion prefecture where firefighters rescued some 60 people: men, women, children and elderly have climbed to roof tops to escape the water …

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UPD July 29/2014: Despite all efforts and all the crocodile dundees who rushed to Crete, famous crocodile “Sifis” hasn’t bite so far…. The crocodile won’t bite. The slaughtered chicken in the traps got rotten and started to stink. “Sifis”, the crocodile of Crete, turns to be a clever cat, after …

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His name is Sifis – a popular name for Cretan males. His is alleged to 180 cm long, even though nobody has come close to the mysterious crocodile wandering and swimming around in the lake of Potami Dam on the Amari plain in the prefecture of Rethymnon in the resort …

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A tragic accident occurred on Wednesday morning in Rethymnon, Crete, when an ambulance collided with a private car. Three oxygen bottles exploded causing the death of the two passengers, while the driver suffered serious injuries. The two women on the private vehicle suffered minor injuries.  Dead are the director of  Crete ambulance service EKAV, anesthisiologist Dimitris …

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You have to live in Greece to have an insight picture of what exactly going on here with a state unable to pay its duties. Three months after the beginning of the school year and elementary school children Gerani Rethymno still doing course on “borrowed” spaces, which have been converted …

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An egg landed on the head of deputy Minister for Citizen’s Protection Manolis Othonas while he attended a sports event in the city of Rethymnon, Crete. The egg was hurled by a woman while Othonas was making statements to local reporters. The woman was detained by the police. Local news …

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