October 8, 2020
Greece, Politics
After a marathon session that lasted 13 hours on Wednesday, the Appeals Court in Athens resumes its work in the trial of Golden Dawn at 12;30 noon on Thursday. The session starts with the recommendations of the prosecutor regarding which mitigating circumstances should or should not be admitted in imposing …
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October 7, 2020
Editor, FEATURED, Greece, Opinion
“Pavlo, you did it, my son, you did it, my son, my son!” With tears in her eyes, face and arms towards the sky, a figure from an ancient Greek tragedy, Magda Fyssa screams minutes after the appeals Court in Athens ruled that the neo-nazi party of Golden Dawn is …
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October 7, 2020
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Large crowds of people have gathered outside the Appeals court in downtown Athens on Wednesday morning, awaiting for the verdict of the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party. Five and a half years after the trial started and 453 sessions, the moment for the judges to announce the decision that will write …
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October 6, 2020
Greece, Politics
One day to go before a court in Athens court will issue the much anticipated verdict in the five-year trial of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. Judges will rule whether GD party that was in parliament from 2012-2019 operated a criminal organization, carried out attacks and murders on migrants and …
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August 25, 2020
Sports
Manchester United captain Harry Maguire has been given a suspended sentence of 21 months and 10 days in prison after his trial on the Greek island of Syros on Tuesday. The England defender, 27, was found guilty of repeated bodily harm, attempted bribery, violence against public employees and insult after …
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January 20, 2020
Social
Two shop owners and four policemen will stand for the murder of LGBTO activist Zak Kostopoulos in downtown Athens in September 2018. The six will stand trial on charges of fatal bodily harm, charges that result in relative light punishment. Sixteen months after Kostopoulos’ death, the Council of Misdemeanor judges …
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October 21, 2019
Greece, Politics
“Hitler was inspired by us. How do you greet the flag or a honored person? They have demonized Hitler. I like that greeting, it has good energy,” former Golden Dawn MP Konstantinos Barbarousis told the court on Monday. When asked in court about the Nazi symbols the party was using, …
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July 18, 2019
Greece
Giorgos Roupakias, the confessed murderer of antifascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, appeared in court provocative, incongruous and cynical. “It was a simple manslaughter,” he claimed in his first testimony in public on a crucial day for the Golden Dawn trial. He further claimed that it was Fyssas attacked him first with …
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May 28, 2019
Greece
Greek voters have sent member of far-right Golden Dawn Yiannis Lagos to the European Parliament although he is on trial and not allowed to leave Greece. According to the elections results so far, GD won two seats in the EP. Together with other GD members Lagos is on trial as …
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April 15, 2019
Greece
SIEMENS bribes amounted 75 million Deutsche Mark, while the loss for the Greek state was 69 million euros, the prosecutor of the three-member Felony Court of Appeals stated on Monday. “For the signing of the 8002 agreement between Siemens and [Greece’s Telecommunications Company] OTE , in 1997, 75 million mark …
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October 30, 2018
Very Mix
The public prosecutor in the criminal court in Patras asked maximum sentences for six out of nine defendants for the murder of 22-year-old US tourist Bakari Henderosn last year in Zalynthos. According to local media, the prosecutor who leads the trial has asked the maximum sentence for murder with intent …
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September 21, 2018
Society, Very Mix
Under strict security measures, the trial of the suspects for the murder of US student Bakari Henderson kicked off in the Mixed Jury Court in Patras, West Peloponnese, on Friday morning. lawyers’ attempts to postpone the trial failed, relevant petitions were rejected by the court. Nine defendants are being tried …
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September 19, 2018
Very Mix
For fourteen months Phil and Jill Henderson try to cope with the loss of their son Bakari. They try to understand how they lost their son because of one selfie in a bar in Laganas. They are currently in Greece to attend the trial of those suspected to have stabbed …
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September 18, 2018
Greece, Politics
The coward and cold-blooded murder of a young Greek rapper. A mother patiently waiting for justice to prevail, counting the days, the months, the years. A big trial with huge files of material and dozens of defendants. A trial that has been going on since 2015. A political party of …
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July 6, 2018
Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, accused “the West” for having put pressure on Greece to not extradite the 8 Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after the failed coup of July 2016. In an interview with state news agency Anadolu, Cavusoglu said the Greek Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister …
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March 16, 2018
Lifestyle
A court in Aigio acquitted Metropolit of Aigialia and Kalavryta Amvrosios of hate speech and opened the Pandoras’s box with some media to describe the decision as “shame” and many Greeks in social media to speak of “impunity” and a “parody” of a trial. In his testimony at the court, …
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February 9, 2018
Greece, Politics
An Athens court sentenced the leader of extreme-right Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos, to 8 months imprisonment for incitement to commit crimes. The sentence is suspended for three years. In a public speech on 3. Sept 2011, Michaloliakos threatened his political opponents saying “we would smash their heads.” he had also …
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February 2, 2018
Greece, Politics
The trial of four former members of the Church of Greece’s charity Allilegii (Solidarity), charged with embezzlement, breach of faith and making false statements started at a Three-member Appeals Court in Athens on Thursday. The case concerns the alleged embezzlement by the NGO’s former head Dimitris Fourlemadis of 5.6 million …
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January 4, 2018
Turkey-GR
Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis hinted on Thursday that the 8 Turkish soldiers who fled after the failed coup in July 2016 could be tried in Greece. In a press conference held at noon Kontonis said the 8 Turkish soldiers could be tried in Greece if Turkey submits a relevant request. …
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November 25, 2017
Uncategorized
An Athens Appellate Court Prosecutor has found 36 people guilty for the infamous “Athens Stock Exchange Crash of 1999” that caused thousands of small investors to have lost their life savings. It has taken 18 years for an Athens Appellate Court Prosecutor, Athina Theodoropoulou, to find guilty 36 individuals implicated …
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