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Murderer of 13-year-old Roma girl surrenders to police after a week

June 12, 2018 Social Comments Off on Murderer of 13-year-old Roma girl surrenders to police after a week

The murderer of the 13-year-old Roma girl has surrendered to police a week after the tragedy. The local butcher was taken to police station in Amfissa, Central Greece late on Monday. He was allegedly hiding on the mountain for a week allegedly fearing retaliation by the small Roma community. The …

Local businessman shoots and kills 13-year-old Roma girl in Amfissa, Central Greece

June 5, 2018 Social Comments Off on Local businessman shoots and kills 13-year-old Roma girl in Amfissa, Central Greece

A local businessman shot and killed a 13-year-old girl in the Roma settlement by the town of Amfissa, Central Greece, short after 8 o’ clock on Monday evening. The 34-year-old perpetrator is at large still Tuesday noon. Tension in the area is high as locals fear of revenge and members …

Racist shop owner who pushed with her foot a Roma girl sentenced

December 15, 2017 Social 5

Justice after four years. The woman who pushed away with her foot an accordion playing Roma girl was finally sentenced by a court in Athens. Dimitris Messinis, the photographer who shot the picture in September 2013 , and made the arrogant abuse public, posted on his Facebook account, that the …

Roma man dies in custody, relatives attack police station injuring 9 officers

December 14, 2017 Uncategorized 1

A 62-year-old Roma man died while in custody in a police station in Fyli, Ano Liosia in North-West Athens on Wednesday. Angry relatives and members of the Roma community gathered outside the police station to protest the death. According to media, the angry crowd threw stones and sticks and injured …

Menidi: Molotov cocktails in Roma houses after stray bullet kills school boy (video)

June 10, 2017 Uncategorized 7

Situation in Menidi got out of control on Saturday afternoon, when a group of people wearing hoods threw molotov cocktail bombs in houses belonging to the Roma community of the area. The hoodies got mingled in a peaceful demonstration launched by locals, after a stray bullet in a nearby school …

Athens: Roma set tires on fire to protest demolition of their settlement

September 30, 2014 Society Comments Off on Athens: Roma set tires on fire to protest demolition of their settlement

Some two hundred Roma set tires on fire on one of main Athens roads on Tuesday in order to protest the forceful demolition of their settlement. The protest took place at Mesogeion Avenue around Nomismatokopeio metro station where the Roma have been occupying an area for the last 40 years. …

DNA-test proves young man in Cyprus is not missing Ben Needham

October 30, 2013 Very Mix 1

Police in Yorkshire revealed on Tuesday that a DNA test carried out on a Romanian young man in Cyprus has proved he is not Ben Needham, who disappeared in 1991. An anonymous source had handed in the video of the young man attending an event in a church next to a …

DNA test confirms blonde Maria is the daughter of Bulgarian Roma couple

October 25, 2013 Very Mix 6

..and there was light! The DNA-test confirmed that little blonde Maria is the biological daughter of Sasha Ruseva and her husband Atana Rusev, a Roma couple living in Nikoloevo in Bulgaria. The test result was announced on Friday afternoon, a week after the girl was removed by local police from …

Greek TV: “Maria is between 5 and 6 years old” dental examination shows

October 21, 2013 Very Mix 1

“Dental examination showed that Maria is between 5 and 6 years old,” the reporter of private Mega TV said live from the Hamogelo toy Piadioy, the Greek NGO that currently is taking care of little Maria, the blond girl that was found in a Roma settlement in Farsala, Central Greece. …

UPDATES Maria, the little blond girl from Roma camp: the mystery continues…

October 21, 2013 Very Mix 6

“Maria is 4 years old. Her mother, a Bulgarian woman, gave the girl as newborn, because she could not afford to raise her. The deal was sealed outside a supermarket through a third person.” This is what the Roma couple claims about the little blond girl with angel eyes that …

Greek police searches for biological parents of little blond girl found in Roma settlement

October 18, 2013 Very Mix Comments Off on Greek police searches for biological parents of little blond girl found in Roma settlement

A shock in the assumption the little girl may have been abducted by a couple. Or was it a failed illegal adoption of a new born? A blond girl, approximately four years old, was found in a Roma settlement in Farsala in Central Greece. she was kept by a couple …

Man gets electrocuted as he tries to steal Proastiakos train cables

January 4, 2013 Society 1

A Roma man was electrocuted and died on the spot as he tried to steal cables from the Proastiakos train rails. The tragic incident occurred in the early morning hours of Friday in Menidi area of eastern Athens. According to Greek media, the man, 35, died as he was trying to …

Megara: Roma boy, 12, found slaughtered

December 14, 2012 Very Mix Comments Off on Megara: Roma boy, 12, found slaughtered

The slaughtered body of a 12-year old Roma boy was found by passersby in “Vlychos” area of Megara, in Viotia prefecture of Greece. According to Greek police, the body of the unlucky boy had wounds in the abdomen, chest and neck caused by a knife. It is not known whether the …

Μan gets electrocuted as he tries to steal electricity

December 11, 2012 Society 1

A 60-year-old man got electrocuted as he tried to ‘steal’ electricity. He tried to illegally connect his house with the columns of the Greek Public Power Company. While up to the column, the man was “knocked down” by the force of the power. He was taken to the hospital where the doctors could …

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