Α young mother was caught stealing milk from supermarkets in Volos, central Greece. The 30-year-old woman told police that she had no money to feed her baby and she was forced to steal to ensure the baby’s survival. She was sentenced to 20 days prison, with 3 years suspension. Within …
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Ex SYRIZA Minister, businessman guilty over TV license auction
In a unanimous decision Friday a Special Court found former SYRIZA minister Nikos Pappas guilty of dereliction of duty over the handling of a 2016 television license tender. Guilty was found also businessman Christos Kalogritsas for the crime of moral turpitude in the breach of duty of Pappas. The Special …
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Thief of three masterpieces from National Gallery sentenced
A 50-year-old Greek painter/decorator was sentenced to a 6-year suspended prison sentence on Friday for stealing three artworks from the National Gallery in Athens ten years ago. Having remained elusive for years but eventually arrested in 2021, the man had then confessed he was the perpetrator of the theft of …
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Mammoth sentence for “quack doctor”: 8 times life plus another 50 years in prison
One of the biggest sentences in the Greek judicial system was imposed to the “quack doctor” responsible for the death of seven cancer patients. The Mixed Jury Court in Athens sentenced 50-year-old Nikolaos Kontostathis to 8 times life, 50 years imprisonment and 327,000 euro fine. The sentences cover the charges …
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Six people sentenced in retrial of Bakari Henderson’s murder on Zakynthos
Six people charged with the beating death of US citizen Bakari Henderson at Laganas on the island of Zakynthos in July 2017 were found guilty by a second-level court on Friday. Five defendants were found guilty of intended fatal bodily harm, and one was found guilty of fatal bodily harm. …
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Justice for Eleni Topaloudi: Appeals court upholds life sentence plus 15 years for defendants
The Mix Jury of a Court of Appeal in Athens on Friday upheld the convictions for two men over the heinous crime of the rape and murder of 21-year-old university student Eleni Topaloudi on the island of Rhodes in 2018. In May 2020, a First Instance Court unanimously found the …
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Caroline Crouch: Life sentence for Babis Anagnostopoulos plus 11.5 years and €21K fine
Life imprisonment Babis Anagnostopoulos for the murder of young British-born mother Caroline Crouch and another ten years behind bars for the killing of the family dog, the Mix Jury Criminal court in Athens ruled early Monday evening. In addition, the 34-year-old defendant received 11.5 years in prison for the dog …
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Greece condemns Turkey for conviction of Osman Kavala, calls for immediate release
Greece has condemned Turkey’s decision to convict activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala to life imprisonment and thus without parole. In a statement posted on Twetter by the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, Athens called for Kavala’s immediate release, adding that the “decision stands in stark contrast with the international obligations Turkey …
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Mother in Crete sentenced to 6 months for not sending child to school
Α Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Heraklio, Crete sentenced a mother who did not send her child to school to six months n prison with a three-year suspension. The 9-year-old child did not attended school since September 2020. To her defense the 39-year-old mother said that she did not send her …
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Appeals court suspends prison sentence of ex-Golden Dawn MP
A Greek appeals court has suspended the six-year prison sentence of former Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos. With the ruling, which was issued despite the prosecutor’s recommendation that Michos remain in jail, the former neo-Nazi deputy will imminently be released from the high-security Domokos prison in central Greece until the …
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Athens court unanimously sentences vitriol attacker to 15 years in jail
A court in Athens found Efi Kakarantzoula, 37, found guilty of attempted murder of Ioanna Paliospyrou to whom she attacked with a portion of vitriol and marked the 36-year-old victim for the rest of her life. the court decision was unanimous by both the body of the judges and the …
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Eleni Topaloudi: Greek, Albanian defendants found “guilty” for brutal rape and murder
One of the most heinous crimes in Greece: 21-year-old university student Eleni Topaloudi was brutally raped,, tortured and murdered by two young men on the island of Rhodes in November 2018. One and a half years later, justice was served, when a mix jury court in Athens unanimously found both …
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German officers sentenced for replacing Greek flag with German one in Chania
Two German army officers took down the Greek flag and hoisted the German one in Stavros area of Akrotiri in Chania Prefecture on Sunday. The two -23-year-old Germans serve at the 115th Wing Battalion of the NATO. They were immediately arrested and taken to court, where each one received a …
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Ex Hospital director gets 7-year suspended sentence for ‘free treatment’ to prominent Greeks
Former chairman of Henry Dunant Hospital, Andreas Martinis, was sentenced to 7 years suspended imprisonment after burdening the hospital with 1.75 million euros for free treatments he offered to prominent individuals He used the funds aiming to needy, offering to “prominent” patients without financial problems expensive examinations and staying in …
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Ex chief of Church NGO embezzles €5.5million, gets 16 year suspended sentence
The Three-Member Felonies Appeal Court in Athens sentenced the former chief of the Church NGO “Allileggyi” – Solidarity – to 16 years imprisonment on suspension. Dimitris Fourlemadis was found guilty for embezzlement of 5.5 million euros of public money for charities in third countries.€ According to the court decision, Fourlemadis …
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Court sentences 7 top PPC unionists for fraud: 3 to 5 years on suspension
A Three-Members Appeals Court in Athens sentenced seven top unionists of Greece’s Public Power Corporation union GENOP-DEH to 3 to 5 years imprisonment for the so-called “Golden Subsidies,” according to which the union would be granted thousands of euro that was spent in luxurious travels and other . The court …
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Three men sentenced for Boutaris attack, however, on suspension or bail
The Misdemeanor court in Thessaloniki found guilty three men for the attack against the mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris. The court sentenced one 20-eyar-old and a 36-year-old to 14 months imprisonment and the second 20-year-old to 21 months. The sentence is suspended for 3 years for the two 20-year-olds. There …
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Ex Financial Crimes Units head sentenced for failing to investigate the “Lagarde List”
The former head of powerful financial crimes units (SDOE), Ioannis Diotis, was handed down a 10-year suspended sentence. He was convicted of failing to investigate information on the so-called “Lagarde list” containing more than 2,000 names of potential tax evaders. Ioannis Diotis was handed down a suspended 10-year sentence this …
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Court sentences Golden Dawn MP for speech ‘inciting others to crimes’
A Misdemeanors Court in Athens sentenced far-right Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris to six months imprisonment for inciting crime. The court found that a speech delivered by Kasidiaris was inciting others to commit crimes. Kasidiaris’s speech in Aspropyrgos in 2011, West Attica, was recorded and the video was uploaded on …
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Greek court hands 15-year sentences to suspected jihadists with refugee status
A Greek court on Friday handed 15-year prison sentences to two suspected jihadists with Swedish passports trying to enter Turkey carrying combat items, a local justice source said. The suspects’ lawyer said the men, who have refugee status in Sweden, would appeal against the sentence. They will remain incarcerated until …
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