April 3, 2024
Economy, FEATURED
Consumers in Greece see an increase of electricity prices in April despite the decrease in the wholesale price. “Blame the electricity theft,” says General Secretary for Energy, Aristotelis Aivaliotis. The cost created by electricity theft is sent to providers who on their turn send it to consumers. 400 million euros …
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January 15, 2024
BOOKS, Culture
Thousands of books were stolen from the Bookstore of Homeless in downtown Athens, with the owners to estimate that over 8,000 books were taken. The books come mainly from donations by citizens and publishing houses and the revenues go to support the homeless people in the Greek capital. The theft …
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November 14, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The risks of theft of small “souvenirs” from the scattered stones and marble pieces at the Holy Rock of the Acropolis of Athens are great as there are visitors who often try to take with them a small piece, even though this is exprecessely prohibited. Cameras is the solution. There …
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October 23, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
Farmers and cooperatives on the island of Crete have begun using GPS chip technology in the shape of olives hanging on the trees to deal with the rising theft of olives during the current harvest season. The use of “smart olives” seemed necessary as the fruit has become especially precious …
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October 4, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
Some 37 tons of olive oil were stolen from the agricultural cooperative in Polygyros, in Halkidiki, northern Greece. The incident took place as the olive oil prices soar to unprecedented levels in the country. The damage worth is estimated to exceed 370,000 euros. According to the Polygyros Olive Oil Cooperative, …
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September 20, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Police in Athens has arrested a foreign national who visited the Acropolis and stole pieces of marble from the archaeological site. Arrested has been a 36-year-old Romanian citizen following a complain by another visitor. He was found to have stolen two pieces of marble from the archaeological site. According to …
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August 30, 2023
Culture, FEATURED
Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said that “the last argument of the British that the Parthenon Sculptures are supposedly safer in this particular Museum than in Athens, in the Acropolis Museum, has collapsed.” In an article published in newspaper tanea, Mendoni commented in the wake of the theft scandal in …
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August 23, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Five women broke into an excavation site at the Acropolis Museum in Athens and stole coins. The incident took place at 22.45 on Tuesday evening in Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, where five young Greek women -among them two minors- were noticed by a security guard of the Acropolis Museum to have …
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January 22, 2023
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
A 50-year-old Greek painter/decorator was sentenced to a 6-year suspended prison sentence on Friday for stealing three artworks from the National Gallery in Athens ten years ago. Having remained elusive for years but eventually arrested in 2021, the man had then confessed he was the perpetrator of the theft of …
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August 4, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Port authorities have arrested three young men for stealing items from the luggage of a tourist onboard of a ferry. The thieves were arrested at the port of Rafina and on the island of Syros. According to statement issued by the Greek Coast Guard on Wednesday, two men, aged 22 …
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June 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Α 40-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the theft of two vials of Covid-19 vaccine from the vaccination center in Peristeri, western Athens, on Tuesday. According to police, the man, a suspected drug user, had visited the site in order to get vaccinated. Immediately after he was administered …
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November 28, 2020
Very Mix
Greek Police is investigating the raiding of four deposit boxes at a bank branch in Psychiko suburb of northern Athens. The thieves stole jewelry, cash and other valuables items worth more than 5 million euros. The theft was noticed on November 13, when the owner of one of the boxes …
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October 24, 2019
Very Mix
A hotel employee on Crete risked his life to catch a thief. He jumped on the back of the thief’s pickup truck until the driver made dangerous maneuvers and threw him over the board and on the street. Together with an accomplice, the thief had stolen a 500-euro worth motor …
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June 2, 2018
Economy
Groups of Albanian herb-pickers illegally enter North Greece and plunder vast quantities of herbs which they carry back home on mules and sell them for a tidy profit in European markets. They cause not only damage to the local economy but also to the eco-system. After seeing its best minds …
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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 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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June 28, 2017
Tourism
A 36-year-old employee at the airport of Thessaloniki was arrested by Airport police on Wednesday morning for stealing money and other items from passengers’ luggage. According to local media, there have been several complaints by passengers that they were missing cash and other items from their luggage. Authorities launched an …
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May 22, 2017
Very Mix
It all started with the theft of diagnostic machines from Agio Savvas Cancer and Oncology Hospital in Athens, last week. The story repeated in the general hospitals of Volos, Lamia and Larissa in Central Greece. Four robberies in a week. Targeted at pulmonary and gastroenterology clinics in public hospital. Bulky …
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March 21, 2017
Greece, Politics
The online questionnaire uploaded by the Youth organization of ruling left-wing SYRIZA is theoretically a sociological research, an attempt to gather the opinion of the basic of the youth organization. However, several questions are unconventional and even rename the criminal offense of “theft” into “activism”. The questionnaire triggered an outrage …
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June 29, 2015
Society
Flour, sugar, pasta, rice, milk and canned tomatoes, food items that do not expire soon are been hastily removed from the super-market selves and land into the housewife’s basket. “There was quite some queue at the cash register and people had their baskets full of pasta, sugar and flour,” a …
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