Α new case of child pimping has been discovered on Tuesday, with the victim being a 14-year-old living in a home for minors in a suburb of southern Athens. It was social workers who noticed that the child was leaving the facility and was absent for several hours. Last Sunday …
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Train Crash: Turkey allows jailed Greek father to attend son’s funeral
The jailed father of a train driver killed in the Tempi train crash is to be released from a Turkish prison so that he can attend his son’s funeral. Citing sources, media report that this was the topic of a discussion on the phone conversation between Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias …
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Train Crash: Greek father in Turkish prison seeks permit to attend son’s funeral
A Greek inmate in a Turkish prison has applied for a temporary absence to attend the funeral of his son who was killed in a head-on train collision in central Greece on Tuesday. Greek media have identified the victim as 28-year-old Nikos Nalbantis. There was no information about the identity …
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6-year-old girl dies of streptococcus; first victim in Greece
A 6-year-old girl died suffered a septic shock and died in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, last Monday, February 13. Blood culture revealed that the girl was infected with streptococcus that claimed the life of several children in UK and other European countries. It is recalled that the girl was intubated by …
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Court rules compensation to relatives of Mati disaster victim
An Athens court has ruled that the state must pay 300,000 euros in emotional distress damages to the relatives of a 77-year-old woman who died in the eastern Attica wildfires of Mati on 23 July 2018. Five relatives of the victim, who died after leaving her home in the settlement …
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Large-scale police operations in Roma camps after riots (picts)
Large-scale police operations with dozens of police officers and special units have been taking place in Roma camps in western Athens since Thursday morning following ongoing riots over the shooting of a 16-year-old Roma boy by a policeman. Special units police officers with riot police squads and patrol cars moved …
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Man arrested in Chania for the rape of young tourist; second perpetrator on the run
Police in the city of Chania on the island of Crete arrested on Sunday one young Greek man for the rape of a tourist from Sweden. The 21-year-old victim filed a lawsuit and forensic examination confirmed her complaint. The arrestee is aged 23, while a second perpetrator who allegedly participated …
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Myrto: Victim of heinous crime on Paros to receive compensation by Greek state
Τhe Greek state must pay compensation to the victim of a debilitating rape by a man who was in the country illegally in 2012, the Council of State ruled ον Wednesday. The victim, Myrto, as she was known with her first name, was 15 when she was brutally raped and …
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Victim of brutal bullying, missing over a month, found alive in Pyrgos
39-year-old Thymios B. was located alive, 46 days after he went missing from the town of Pyrgos, in south Peloponnese. The vulnerable victim of a brutal bullying by a group of local thugs went missing on May 11, apparently unable to cope anymore with being the target of young thugs, …
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Victim of gang rape in hotel suite in Thessaloniki fights against cover-up
The public prosecutor in Thessaloniki is investigating the horrific case of a young woman who was allegedly drugged and raped in the suite of a luxury hotel in Thessaloniki during a New Year’s Eve party. The 24-year-old victim of a gang rape has recognized at least two suspects while she …
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Athens court unanimously sentences vitriol attacker to 15 years in jail
A court in Athens found Efi Kakarantzoula, 37, found guilty of attempted murder of Ioanna Paliospyrou to whom she attacked with a portion of vitriol and marked the 36-year-old victim for the rest of her life. the court decision was unanimous by both the body of the judges and the …
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Trial launched with vitriol attack victim making first public appearance
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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Femicide in Thessaloniki: Murderer commits suicide while in custody
Τhe suspect for the murder of his partner in Thessaloniki beginning of the week, has committed suicide while in custody in Police Headquarters in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.. The 56-year-old Georgian woman was the latest victim of femicide in the country. The 48-year-old man was found dead in his cell at …
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Student arrested for flashing & stalking after victim exposes him on social media
A 22-year-old student has been arrested for flashing and harassing a young woman in southern Athens. The man was identified after the victim posted on social media footage from security camera that shows him trying to open the entrance door of the apartment building where the victim lives and his …
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UPD Vassilis Maggos, 27, dies in Volos, a month after severely beaten by police
A young man was found dead in his home by his mother in the city of Volos on Monday afternoon. The death of 27-year-old Vassilis Maggos comes exactly one month, after he was severely beaten by police in his hometown during a demonstration. Maggos was hospitalized for seven broken ribs …
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Coronavirus Greece: Man, 35, without underlying health issue is the youngest victim
Two more COVID-19 patients died in Greece in the last couple of hours raising the death toll to 119. One of the dead is a 35-year-old man without underlying health problem, media report. e is the youngest victim in the country to have died after infection with coronavirus. The man …
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Supreme Court rules against extradition of Iranian domestic violence victim
In an unanimous decision, the Greek Supreme Court ruled that Iranian Sharareh Khademi should not be extradited to Iran. Extradition of the 37-year old nurse would pose an “immediate risk to her life” and she could be abused, the prosecutor had proposed. The court annulled the decision of the Court …
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Eight sentenced for bullying student Giakoumakis, leading to his suicide
A Court in Ioannina charged eight out of nine defendants with prison sentences of 36 months and 150 hours community service for bulling 20-year-old Vangelis Giakoumakis, leading to his suicide. The ninth defendant was found not guilty. It was the worst known and most tragic cases of bullying in Greece. …
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Australian escapes death after explosives detonate in his car in Glyfada
A powerful explosion took place on Friday morning in an open parking lot on Vouliagmenis Avenue in Glyfada suburb of South Athens. An Australian citizen under whose car explosives were placed got injured in legs and hands. Four other vehicles parked next to the car were damaged. It was short …
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Missing Greek-Russian woman found dead in Finsbury Park, London
A young woman of Greek and Russian origin went missing on Christmas Eve in London, UK. The 22-year-old had left a party at around 8 p.m. local time on December 24 to go home near the Finsbury Park. She was to take the bus for home and to meet her …
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