February 4, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society, Uncategorized
The Greek Education Ministry on Friday opened an investigation into a report that a middle school teacher insulted a male student because he showed up in class wearing a skirt. Media reports said the incident happened at the Ilion Musical Middle School in western Athens on Tuesday, February 1. The …
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December 3, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A video shows a teacher beating a female student in the classroom of a vocational school EPAL in Attica. The teacher has been suspended from duties, classmates of the girl destroyed his car. According to the footage the teacher hit the 16-year-old girl twice. He first slapped her, then pulled …
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November 26, 2021
Society, Very Mix
A 65-year-old man was found dead after his car was swept away by the waters of a swollen stream during a rainstorm in Ilia, southern Peloponnese on Friday. His body was found by rescuers some 300 meters away from the vehicle. According to local news site ilialive, the victim, a …
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October 20, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Α 45-year-old music teacher died of Covid-19 complications in the hospital of Serres, northern Greece, on Wednesday. The father of three and his wife had signed hospital papers confirming that he did not wanted to be intubated should the doctors consider intubation due to his health deterioration. The man was …
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September 22, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
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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January 30, 2021
Social
A little girl is standing in the cold at the door of the kindergarten class and screams. She begs her teacher to let her inside, she shouts for her mum. She is just 4 years old. She wears just a pink dress, no coat or anorak in a freezing day. …
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November 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The Three-Member Criminal Court in Athens sentenced to 12-month imprisonment a teacher for not wearing a mask in the classroom violating the state rules and setting students’ and colleagues’ lives at risk. The teacher at a vocational lyceum in Ilioupolis suburb of Athens was arrested on October 23 following complaints …
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October 14, 2020
animals
An alleged school teacher has been detained for stabbing and injuring a dog in the middle of the street of Ano Neapoli, in Nikaia suburb of Piraeus. The dog suffered injuries in the lung and underwent surgery in the municipality shelter, his health condition is critical and the next few …
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July 24, 2020
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greek Freak, Giannis Antetokounmpo, became the target of the racist rant by an official at the Greek Education Ministry who is also said to be coordinator of refugees’ education and intercultural instructor at the Council of Europe. The unprecedented vulgar omments of the xenophobic ‘educator’ triggered an outrage in Greece. …
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July 7, 2020
Social
Greek police has arrested a 45-year-old school teacher for having an affair with one of his students, a 14-year-old girl. The arrest followed a denouncement by the girl’s mother to police. According to media, the affair started when the girl was 13 years old. So far, it is known that …
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January 28, 2020
Social
Students at a vocational training school in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, staged a protest in support of their classmate who bullied a teacher. Raising banners reading “no students to courts” the teenagers occupied the school fearing the possibility of criminal charges against the bully student. The protest takes place a day …
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October 21, 2019
Very Mix
A parent association on the island of Samos sued a teacher whom they accuse of encouraging students to ignore their parents’ wishes with regards to their opposition to refugee children entering the school. In February 2018, the primary school teacher in the town of Vathi spoke up against racism and …
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October 21, 2018
Refugees
Only 25 pupils from 130 in total went to primary school of Skoutari, in Northern Greece, on Friday. 105 pupils abstained from classes in protest of 10 refugee children who started their education in the school. It was in fact the parents and the guardians of the 105 pupils who …
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February 14, 2018
Politics, Refugees
A school teacher and her two children were drown when a boat carrying Turkish citizens to Greece capsized in the Evros River, the natural border between Greece and Turkey. The boat was carrying eight people who were trying to escape the purge under Erdogan’s regime. Five are still missing, among …
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November 8, 2017
Social
A 9-year-old pupil was exposed to a cruel form of punishment in an elementary school in Alimos, suburb of south Athens. The music teacher had his classmates slap and beat him all though the duration of the lesson because he had committed a “horrible” mischief: he pretended to drive a …
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September 15, 2017
Archeology, Culture
A local high school teacher has been arrested for the theft of fossil footprints in Kasteli, Chania, on the island of Crete. A part of the stolen human-like footprints were found in the home of the 55-year-old who is a resident of Kissamos. Security cameras had recorded the thief when …
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September 12, 2016
Turkey-GR
Turkish authorities arrested a teacher and a university professor, alleged supporters of Fetullah Gulen, as they tried to flee to Greece. The two are arrested in the early morning hours of Saturday, September 10th 2016, as they were trying to reach Greece by crossing the Evros river on a inflatable …
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October 24, 2014
Very Mix
A teacher in amok, students in shock. Ateacher in a high school class went out of control and started to cut his arms, from the wrist to the elbow, with a paper cutter in front of screaming children in the classroom. Amid students’ screams and cries, the teacher spread the …
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July 29, 2013
Society
The shock of being sent to labor reserve and lose the income overnight was probably something the heart of the female teacher could not bear. On Saturday afternoon, the teacher felt unease and fainted. The doctors of the hospital where she was transferred could only confirm their death. The teacher of Nursing …
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November 29, 2012
Society
Dozens of unionists cheered the court announcement acquitting two municipality workers and one teacher over an incident against the German Consul Wolfgang Hoelsche-Obermaier, two weeks ago. The German Consul in Greece became target of angry municipality workers who had harassed and insulted and hurled coffee and water bottles at him. The three men were …
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