May 4, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A luxury watch stolen during an armed robbery in Denmark five years ago was located in Greece when a woman brought it to a store for repair in Athens. The robbery was attributed to international jewel thief network Pink Panthers. As its serial number was registered, the store technician identified …
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December 9, 2021
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Forty-seven illegally trafficked Greek artifacts among the dozens surrendered by American hedge-fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt under a deal with US authorities will be returned to Greece in the coming days, the Culture Ministry announced on Thursday. The ancient items that will be returned originated from Central Greece, Crete, the Cyclades …
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September 21, 2021
Archeology, Very Mix
Two US nationals were arrested at Athens’ international airport on Monday after fragments of ancient vessels and other objects were discovered in their luggage. The Oklahoma-born couple, both aged 64, had been traveling to Greece with their 32-year-old son and were heading to Istanbul to continue their holiday. During a …
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June 29, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been reportedly stolen from a vaccination center in western Thessaloniki on Tuesday morning. The theft was discovered by doctors and nurses at the Evosmos Health Center who noticed that one vial was not in its place. The director of the clinic reported the …
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June 29, 2021
Arts, Culture
Greek police has said that they have recovered two paintings by 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, stolen in 2012 from the National Art Gallery, the biggest state art gallery in Athens,. A statement late Monday said the two works were in the hands of the police. According …
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March 21, 2021
Archeology, Culture
A man has been arrested on suspicion of antiquities smuggling for trying to sell an ancient marble statue of “exceptional artwork” that once likely adorned a temple on Athens’ famed Acropolis or the slopes around it, Greek authorities said Friday. Police said the 5th century B.C. statue was recovered following …
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November 18, 2020
Uncategorized
A rare hand-written gospel in Greek is on its way to being returned to the monastery it was stolen from in 1917 by its latest owner, a museum in Washington, DC, the Metropolis of Drama said. One of the oldest extant hand-written gospels, written in Greek between the end of …
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August 4, 2020
Arts, Culture
A 19th-century religious icon showing the Baptism of Christ and another 11 icons stolen in 2005 from the Church of the Dormition of the Visokos Virgin in Kalouta, in the central Zagori district of Ioannina, have been returned from the United Kingdom. According to a statement by the Greek Culture …
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April 27, 2020
Arts, Culture
Two precious icons that are allegedly stolen from church and monasteries in Epirus, western Greece, have been auctioned by a private gallery in Europe, local media reported. According to epiruspost, “two of the hundreds of icons stolen from the churches and monasteries of Epirus between 2000 and 2010 were put …
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January 22, 2020
World
Turkey may have stolen technical data that enabled it to send drill ship Yavuz at a specific location south of Cyprus that energy companies Eni and Total had pre-selected to carry out their own exploratory drilling, Cypriot officials said Wednesday. The Cyprus government essentially confirmed a media report suggesting Turkey …
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September 10, 2019
Greece
Military equipment has been stolen from the Naval Technical Facility on the island of Leros in the eastern Aegean sea. The theft has been discovered during a search in the facility’s inventory. The incident is considered as “serious”, teams from the counter-terror department of police to investigate the issue. A …
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August 2, 2019
animals
He was known as the “Hachiko of Nafpaktos.” The loyal dog would not leave the spot where his owner was killed in a road accident in November 2017. Relatives raised a small religious memorial with the owner’s picture and the dog found a “shelter” there on the side of a …
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July 7, 2019
Greece, Politics
At least one ballot box was stolen from a polling stations in the anarchists’ district of Exarchia in Athens and were allegedly set on fire. The unprecedented incidents took place on early Sunday evening short before the polling stations in Koleti and Arahovis streets were closed at 7 p.m. According …
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October 25, 2018
Social
The director of Technical high-school (EPAL) in Siatista tried in vain to start the heating on Wednesday morning. The system did not work even though 2,700 liters of heating oil were delivered just one day earlier. When he went to check the tank he found out that not a single …
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October 17, 2018
Archeology
A German citizen sent per post to the Greek Embassy in Berlin what has been stolen decades ago: three fragments of ancient Greek mosaics. Two of the fragments were removed on the island of Delos and one from the Hadrian Liberality in Athens in the 1960’s, an attached note clarified. …
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February 6, 2018
Archeology, Culture
A most probably American tourist who stole a handful of stones from the ancient site of the Acropolis many years ago, returned them per mail to the Greek National Tourism Organization in New York. The four small stones were put in a plastic bag and had a handwritten note in …
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January 6, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Investigators raided the office and the Manhattan home of the billionaire Michael H. Steinhardt on Friday afternoon, carrying off several ancient works, Prosecutors say the antiquities were looted from Greece and Italy. Mr. Steinhardt, a hedge-fund manager and philanthropist, has been collecting art from ancient Greece for three decades and …
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December 29, 2017
Greece, Politics
Τhe gun of the police officer assigned with the safety of New Democracy deputy chairman Kostis Chatzidakis was stolen in downtown Athens, while the police officer was carrying packages to the lawmaker’s office. According to media, the policeman had left the gun together with thirteen bullets in a small leather …
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September 14, 2017
Archeology, Culture
Ten out of the forty newly discovered fossil footprints in Kasteli, Chania, have been stolen by unknown thieves. The unprecedented theft was discovered by a citizen who visited the site and saw that several fossil footprints had been removed, while the site was damaged. According to Greek media, security cameras …
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January 2, 2017
Very Mix
Unknown persons stole Baby Jesus from the Nativity scene in the center of the city of Larissa in central Greece. According to Athens news Agency, the perpetrators broke the plexiglass protection of the Nativity scene next to the Christmas Tree in the main square of the city. They stole Baby …
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