October 31, 2022
Social, Society
The trial of 21 people facing charges over the deadly forest fire that swept through the seaside town of Mati on July 23, 2018 began in Athens on Monday, October 31, in a courtroom busting with people, woefully inadequate given the size and the complexity of the case: a national …
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October 11, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
With several days delay, Greece’s conservative Health Minister Thanos Plevris went public to criticize his father for Nazi salute inside the courtroom. His father Costas Plevris, a lawyer and well-known Holocaust-denier, was attending as defense lawyer of convicted MEP Giannis Lagos the second instance trial of neo-nazis Golden Dawn last …
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May 11, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
In his incredible testimony in a court in Athens on Wednesday, confessed murderer Babis Anagnostopoulos tried to present himself as the “good guy” and his victim, Caroline Crouch, as an “unstable” and “violent” woman that beat him” and a “bad mother.” On the anniversary of the murder case that shocked …
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April 8, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Wearing a bulletproof vest and his handcuffed hands on his back, Babis Anagnostopoulos crossed the door of the Mixed Jury Court of Athens short before 8:30 Friday morning. The trial for the murder of his 20-year-old wife Caroline Crouch, a UK national, started almost a year after the heinous murder …
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March 29, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Dimitris Kouvelas, professor of clinical pharmacology at the Aristotle University and a vocal critic of the vaccines against Covid-19 and the coronavirus containment measures, went on trial in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Tuesday for disseminating misinformation regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. Kouvelas was put under investigation and indicted last year after …
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January 14, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
The trial of a Greek lawyer for spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic on social media was postponed on Friday after his lawyers presented test results showing that he had tested positive for the virus. The defendant had announced on Thursday on the internet that he was infected, claiming …
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December 3, 2021
Society, Very Mix
Former artistic director of the National Theater of Greece and actor Dimitris Lignadis accused of raping four teenage or young adult males, was on Friday indicted to stand trial before a Mixed Jury Court by a Misdemeanours Court of the Justice Council. It also ordered that he remains in custody …
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November 11, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
“He had no scruple about his act although she was the mother of his child,” the prosecutor dealing with the murder of Caroline Crouch noted, among others, in his trial recommendation for 33-year-old husband Babis Anagnostopoulos. In his 21-page long recommendation to the Judicial Council, prosecutor Giorgos Noulis, proposed to …
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October 20, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
Three years after the brutal killing of LGBT activist Zak Kostopoulos, the trial finally began on Wednesday morning in Athens. Two businessmen and four police officers are being accused of fatal bodily harm of the 33-year-old Zak who was brutally beaten and died on a sidewalk in downtown Athens. The …
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September 30, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
“She looked at me in the eyes and threw the vitriol. I started to melt,” 35-year-old Ioanna Paliospiroy told the court in Athens on Thursday. With incredible courage she described to judges, the members of the jury, and the woman who ruined her life 18 months ago, the horrifying moments …
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September 15, 2021
Social, Society
With incredible courage and surrounded by her layers and her family, the victim of the vitriol attack, Ioanna Paliospyroy, appeared to court where the trial against the attacker was finally launched. 37-year-oldvictim Ioanna was wearing a special protection mask on her face, gloves and a hat and it was the …
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July 28, 2021
Social
Well-known comedian, actor and director Petros Filippidis was detained and taken to prison following his testimony and the unanimous decision by the investigating magistrate and a prosecutor. They ruled that Petros Filippidis be detained for alleged acts of sexual assault against fellow actors, after his testimony before them on Tuesday, …
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October 21, 2020
Greece, Politics
Prosecutor Adamantia Economou on Wednesday insisted on her recommendation that all former MPs of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will receive suspended sentences until courts examine their appeals. The prosecutor’s proposals refer to those the court convicted and sentenced to prison terms for leading or participating in a “criminal organization.” …
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October 20, 2020
Greece, Politics
Τhe Appeals Court in Athens adjourned after a short session of Tuesday, after the presiding judge questioned the claim of state prosecutor that the Golden Dawn leadership had a “prior clean criminal records” and would therefore remain out of jail until the case is examined at second instance court. Judge …
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October 19, 2020
Greece, Politics
The state prosecutor in Golden Dawn trial proposed on Monday that the sentences of those convicted to over 10 years imprisonment be suspended pending their convicts’ appeal. Exempted from sentence suspension should be the murderer of 33-year-old rapper Pavlos Fyssas, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prosecutor Adamantia Oikonomou has …
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October 13, 2020
Greece
The prosecutor of Golden Dawn trial proposed on Tuesday morning the sentences for the leadership of the neo-nazi party, the murderer of rapper Pavlos Fyssas and his accomplices as well as for those involved in attacks against Egyptian fishermen and unionists of PAME. The Court of Appeals had rejected “mitigating …
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October 12, 2020
Social
The trial of the man arrested for the brutal murder of American scientist Suzanne Eaton on the island of Crete is scheduled to start in Rethymnon, tomorrow, Tuesday, October 13, 2020. 60-year-old Suzanne Eaton was abducted, raped and killed by a local man while she was jogging in Chania, on …
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October 12, 2020
Greece
MEP and convicted Golden Dawn Giannis Lagos fired his lawyer and hired Constantinos Plevris. The 80-year-old lawyer is also a prolific far-right author and father of New Democracy MP Thanos Plevris who immediately distanced himself form the issue. Through his new lawyer, Lagos accused the judges of bias and appealed …
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October 12, 2020
Uncategorized
The Appeals Court in Athens ruled on Monday morning that the leadership of neo-nazi Golden Dawn and Pavlos Fyssas’ murderer are not eligible for leniency. The court ruled that there are no mitigating circumstances for the leader of GD, Nikos Michaloliakos and another six former MPs of the party who …
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October 8, 2020
Greece, Politics
Opposition parties SYRIZa and MeRA 25 are at war of words with the Ministry of Civil Protection that justified the firing of tear gas against people waiting for the verdict of neo-nazi Golden Dawn outside the Appeals court on Wednesday. In a tweet Civil Protection Minister, Michalis Chysochoidis stated that …
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