Tag Archives: suicide

Femicide in Greece: A 65-year-old man shot his 59-year-old wife dead and then took his own life in Lamia, Central Greece, on Monday afternoon. According to local media lamiareport.gr, it was neighbors in the suburb Pangrati of Lamia of the couple who heard loud sounds of a gun and informed …

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The refusal of a local Bishop to allow the religious funeral service for a 17-year-old girl has triggered outrage in the community of Mohos, Stalida, but also beyond Crete. High school student Nikoleta lost her life last Thursday when she fell from a 50-meter-high bridge on the VOAK highway by …

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Police in Thessaloniki has arrested a 14-year-old boy for distributing naked photos and videos of a 13-year-old girl. The victim attempted suicide after she found out that the material has been shared online. Following a complain to police by the victim and her mother, the boy was arrested in his …

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A 72-year-old cancer patient in Heraklio, Crete, has ended his life unable to bear the pain and waiting for medicine to do chemotherapy, a drug which is in short supply in Greece. The issue was brought up a few days ago by local radio station Radio Kriti and a great …

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A patient at the Metaxas Oncology hospital in Piraeus fell from the fourth floor of the building and died on the sport earlier on Monday afternoon. The 67-year-old man had reportedly undergone a major surgery last week, where a tumor was removed. Police officers who rushed to the hospital courtyard …

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A 62-year-old man, a retired Air Force officer, locked himself in his car with his twin toddlers, a boy and a girl aged 2.5 years old, and opened a gas canister in an attempt to put an end to the lives of all three. They were rescued after the man’s …

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The mysterious death of an high-ranking clergyman in his home in downtown Athens is puzzling the Greek Police that examines the possibility of a homicide. 52-year-old archimandrite Chrysostomos Levogiannis was found in his home at Amerikis Square in Kypseli district of the Greek capital by his cleaner at Wednesday noon. …

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An elderly man committed suicide in east Athens in the early morning hours of Wednesday, when he saw his house engulfed in flames. His body was found by police officers in the morning. The 84-year-old man had ended his life with a gun and his body was found in a …

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A family tragedy is behind the two passengers of a car that jumped into the sea in Neoi Epivates fishers’ port in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The 72-year-old mother and her 50-year-old son decided to put an end to their lives on Monday noon.   It was a swimmer who saw …

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The mysterious death of a 14-year-old boy in his family home on Friday night, just hours before participating in a competition sports game, has set authorities on alert and the prosecutor ordered an urgent investigation on Monday. The boy was found hanging from the ceiling of his room with a …

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Femicide in Thessaloniki: A 41-year-old woman was shot and seriously injured by her former partner inside her cafe in the city in northern Greece on Wednesday night. The victim died in the hospital on Thursday morning. The perpetrator, a well known boxer with links to the far-right front, committed suicide …

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A 32-year-old woman was gunned down by her former partner on the island of Rhodes early Wednesday afternoon. The victim was parking near her home in Rodini village when she was shot twice and died on the spot. The woman is the 11th victim of femicide in the country this …

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Τhe suspect for the murder of his partner in Thessaloniki beginning of the week, has committed suicide while in custody in Police Headquarters in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.. The 56-year-old Georgian woman was the latest victim of femicide in the country. The 48-year-old man was found dead in his cell at …

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The owner of a nursing home in northern Athens where cases of Covid-19 have been detected committed suicide on Wednesday morning. He was reportedly found dead in his home. One elderly woman and two employees were infected with the coronavirus. According to media information, the 41-year-old owner had left a …

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A 59-year-old patient at Attikon Hospital, in Chaidari, western Athens, stabbed a nurse on Monday morning and then committed suicide umping from the 4th floor of the building. The patient of Albanian nationality reportedly had lurked for the nurse behind the ward door and attacked her with a knife. He …

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A tourist was found hanged in a hotel room on the island of Zakynthos of Tuesday night. Local reports say that the woman ended her own life. The 45-year-old woman from the Czech Republic was visiting the island alone. She had booked a room in a hotel in Keri area. …

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A 14-year-old girl fell into the tracks of the urban train ISAP in Moschato station in south Athens and was immediately dead on early Thursday afternoon. The suicide reveals a tragedy, as the girl was having an affair with a 43-year-old man and her parents had denounced him to police. …

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A 27-year-old father shot his toddle son dead with a rifle and he committed suspected suicide right afterwards in an apartment of Halandri suburb of North Athens on Sunday morning. It was the noise of the shotguns that alerted neighbors who called the police. Police officers managed to enter the …

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A pair of child shoes, a few flowers, a couple of candles… Still in shock residents of Neos Kosmos paid a small tribute to the 4.5-year-old girl that was thrown down from the 5th floor of an apartment building by her own mother. 24 hours after the tragedy in a …

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Ten boats carrying a total of 615 people of various nationalities arrived on the island of Lesvos over the weekend, that is from Friday Sep14 until Sunday , Sept 16th 2018. It is the largest number of arrivals in recent years and the largest in 2018, Athens News Agency notes …

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