Tag Archives: stolen

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Two mysterious incidents on Tuesday morning cause puzzling to Greek police especially with US President Barack Obama to drive up and down main roads in the city of Athens. Police has found a bag containing seven fire bombs. The bag was found reportedly found near the cemetery of Nea Smyrni, …

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LOL. Education Ministry needed almost a decade to realize that a school book was making wrongest reference to the Parthenon Marbles, an issue that is most dear to Greece that tries to get back the stolen Marbles from Great Britain and the British Museum. The art history book has been …

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