September 12, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Police investigation into the mafia-style execution of six foreign nationals on Monday evening is being conducted in full speed by the Attica Security headquarters. Based on an initial police assessment, the killings appear to be a settling of accounts between rival criminal gangs, most likely Turkish nationals, involved in heroin …
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December 13, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
16-year-old Roma boy Kostas Fragoulis, shot in the head by a police officer on December 5, died on Tuesday morning Ippokratio General Hospital in Thessaloniki announced. For nine days, the teenager who was also a father of a baby, was struggling for life, intubated in the ICU. However, from the …
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July 3, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Three suspects were killed, two police officers and one criminal were injured in an incident that unfolded suburbs of western Athens late on Saturday. Scenes from a wild Far West film unfolded in Athens when criminals of rival groups exchanged fire among themselves and with police later on. The incident …
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June 24, 2022
Arts, Culture
One person was slightly injured as 8 people found themselves in the water, when two speedboats collided during the shooting of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.”and one of them capsized. The accident occurred around 10 o’ clock Friday morning, in the sea area off Palaia Fokia in south-east Attica. …
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June 13, 2022
Politics, Refugees
Greece’s Minister for Citizen Protection denied any involvement in an alleged incident where an Afghan national was killed inside Turkish territory by shots fired from within Greece in the area of the Evros river, the natural border between the two countries. Turkish media claimed on Monday, the incident took place …
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May 25, 2022
Politics, World
“Devastated by the news of the horrific elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that claimed the lives of so many children” the Greek Foreign Ministry posted on Twitter on Wednesday. “In this hour of grief, we extend our heartfelt condolences to the victims’ families and our deepest sympathies to the …
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August 1, 2021
Greece
Turkish media claim on Sunday that a Turkish citizen was shot dead by patrolling Greeks along the Evros border. Greece dismisses the claims speaking of a case of human trafficking and a clash between those involved. Some to the Turkish media claim the 43-year-old man was shot by “patrolling Greek …
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June 1, 2021
Society, Very Mix
Residents of an apartment building in Alimos, suburb of south Athens, jumped out of their beds short after 6 o’ clock in the morning after they heard the noise of shooting. They immediately called the police. No injuries have been reported. Investigators found one bullet cashing. They checked all the …
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July 27, 2020
Very Mix
The publisher of small newspaper Makeleio, Stefanos Chios, was shot by an unknown assailant outside his home early Monday morning. The victim survived the assassination attempt seriously injured. The shooting took place around 3 0′ clock in the morning as the publisher was parking his car outside his home in …
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April 11, 2019
Arts
Director Costas Gavras turned the Kotzias square in the historical center of Athens into a setting for his latest film “Adults in the Room” based on the book of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis Part of the shooting about the Greek crisis in the first half of 2015 took place …
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March 10, 2019
Arts
Greeks were surprised to see clashes between protesters and riot police forces on Sunday morning. Garbage bins were set on fire and tear gas was fired when angry protesters armed with sticks attacked a group of police forces. What was odd, though, was that the clashes took place in an …
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March 9, 2019
Arts
Syntagma Square in downtown Athens will be sprinkled with Hollywood dust and glam when the film set for “Born to be murdered” will be staged over the weekend and close main avenues to traffic. The film is adaptation of the mystery novel with the same name, written by Elinore Denniston …
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November 12, 2018
Social
Hollywood star Julianne Moore, herself a mother of a son and supporter of gun controls, sent a message of solidarity to Susan Orfanos, the mother of Telemachus Orfanos who was killed during the shooting at Thousand Oaks last week. Posting an older picture of her with her son on her …
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November 9, 2018
Social
Telemachus ‘Tel’ Orfanos saw too much horror. The 27-year-old Greek-American first survived last year’s massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival, where 58 people were slain. He was also at the Borderline Bar and Grill on Wednesday night, when a gunman, dressed in black, killed 12 people. One of …
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July 23, 2018
Very Mix
Fourteen people have been shot, one of them fatally, and the gunman is dead after gunfire rang out along a busy Toronto street on Sunday night, Toronto police said. A woman died and a girl around 8 years old is in critical condition after a gunman opened fire outside a …
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July 16, 2018
Refugees
A court on the island of Lesvos remanded custody to the 78-year-old farmer who shot and wounded a teenager refugee from Syria last week. Together with his family the 16-year-old asylum seeker had sought refuge in the farmer’s land plot to escape violence in the Moria hot spot nearby. The …
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May 20, 2018
Social, Society
Two days after the rampage in the high school of Santa Fe, the father of the 17-year-old shooter, Dimitris Pagourtzis, still cannot believe what happened. “I have a funeral here, I have no joy, I feel the pain of the others, but I also have pain… I lost my child, …
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May 18, 2018
Social, Society
The suspect in a deadly shooting rampage at high school in Santa Fe, Texas, Friday morning has been identified as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, US and international media report. Eight to ten people, mostly students, were killed and 12 were injured, after the teenager of Greek origin entered the classroom shouting …
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November 7, 2017
Greece, Politics
Greek police sees the urban guerilla group called “Revolutionary Self-Defense” as behind the attack at the headquarters of PASOK in downtown Athens on Monday evening. According to athensnewsagency, the suggestion is confirmed by the findings of a ballistic investigation released on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/EkrB6dOtub — Ελληνική Αστυνομία (@hellenicpolice) November 7, 2017 …
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November 6, 2017
Greece, Politics
Unidentified perpetrators have reportedly shot three times at the headquarters of socialist party PASOK in Harilaou Trikoupi street in downtown Athens. The shorts were fired around 8 o’ clock Monday evening , while some 30 to 40 people were insdie the building and riot police squads and policemen outside. First …
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