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Six years after the devastating wildfire in Attica’s seaside town of Mati and nearby areas, which claimed 102 lives and left dozens injured, a three-member misdemeanors court issued its verdicts on the 21 defendants on Monday morning. The verdict triggered an outrage among the victims’ relatives who keep demanding justice. …

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Actor and former artistic director of Greece’s National Theater, Dimitris Lignadis, is now facing the possibility of a higher sentence in the appellate court, after the Appeals Prosecutor’s Office appealed against two parts of the decision of the Mixed Jury Court that sentenced him to a total of 12 years …

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The Mixed Jury Court in Athens found the former director of National Theater, Dimitris Lignadis, guilty for two of four rape cases on Wednesday. The ruling was decided with a majority of votes. The defendant was in trial for the sexual abuse of three minors and one young adult man. …

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Life imprisonment Babis Anagnostopoulos for the murder of young British-born mother Caroline Crouch and another ten years behind bars for the killing of the family dog, the Mix Jury Criminal court in Athens ruled early Monday evening. In addition, the 34-year-old defendant received 11.5 years in prison for the dog …

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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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“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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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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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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With express procedures Turkey’s Council of State completed the hearing on the status of Hagia Sophia and whether it will be converted into on mosque or maintain its museum status on Thursday morning. The written verdict will be delivered within 15 days. It will be up to President Recep Tayyipr …

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One of the most heinous crimes in Greece: 21-year-old university student Eleni Topaloudi was brutally raped,, tortured and murdered by two young men on the island of Rhodes in November 2018. One and a half years later, justice was served, when a mix jury court in Athens unanimously found both …

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The 5-member Court of Appeals in Athens unanimously declared Irianna and Perikles were found not guilty on terrorism charges. The decision was announced short after 3 o’clock on Thursday afternoon and was cheered and applauded by dozens of solidarity supporters of the two who are known in the Greek public …

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Is Justice in Greece independent? The government has its doubts. “A new appeal will be filed, the court will decide in new composition,” Justice minister  Stavros Kontonis said on Monday, after the five-member Athens Appeals Court rejected Irianna’s appeal to suspend her sentence and release her from prison. Three out …

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The European Court of Justice ruled that a national of a non-EU country who has not yet been subject to the return procedure cannot being imprisoned solely because he or she has entered the territory of a member state illegally across an internal border of the Schengen area. This is …

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An Athens Court found former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos guilty on all charges. According to the verdict on Monday morning, Tsochatzopoulos has been found guilty for the offense of money laundering from illegal activity and thus ‘by profession’. Akis Tsochatzopoulo, 74, has been found guilty of having received bribes in …

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