A big rescue operation has been going on since Saturday morning to save a woman who has been injured in area Stephani in Mount Olympus. The health condition of the 35-year-old woman from FYROM (Skopje) is considered as serious. According to a statement, the Greek Rescue Team was informed about …
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Missing 80-year-old found dead in the snow in North Peloponnese
A missing 80-year-old woman was found dead under heavy snow in the vailage Dafnes Achaias by Aegio in North-West Peloponnese, one of the regions of Greece most hit by the heavy and icy cold snow weather. The woman was missing for several hours since Friday when the bad weather front …
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Racist shop owner who pushed with her foot a Roma girl sentenced
Justice after four years. The woman who pushed away with her foot an accordion playing Roma girl was finally sentenced by a court in Athens. Dimitris Messinis, the photographer who shot the picture in September 2013 , and made the arrogant abuse public, posted on his Facebook account, that the …
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Floods death toll rises to 23, after one more body found and an elderly dies in hospital
One more body was found in floods-stricken area of Mandra in West Attica on Monday morning. Short time later, it was announced that a flood victim who was hospitalized since November 15th, died in the intensive care of the Thriasio hospital. The 82-year-old woman was transferred to hospital on the …
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Young Greek model arrested at Hong Kong airport with 2.6kg cocaine
A 19-year-old Greek model was arrested at the Hong Kong international airport carrying 2.6kg cocaine worth HK$2.4million ($300,000, €310,00). She faces life sentence. The local community on the island of Lesvos is shocked as the young woman is the daughter of a respected policeman. The woman arrived to Hong Kong …
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Elderly woman dies when device she used to keep her warm catches fire
A 90-year-old woman died when the electric water bottle she used to keep her warm caught fire. A fire broke out Sunday midnight in an 2nd floor apartment in Neapoli, Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Neighbors who saw thick smoke coming out of the apartment called the Fire Service. When fire fighters …
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Big SAR operation to locate missing UK tourist, 64, in Rodopi, NE Greece
Police and Fire brigades are searching for a 64-year-old British tourist who has been missing since Thursday afternoon in Thrace in north-eastern Greece. After a visit to a local archaeological site, the woman had decided to return on foot. She called her relatives in UK that she was attacked by …
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Oil spill: Woman covered with fuel oil exits the sea in Palaio Faliro
A shocking picture that has gone viral on Greek internet: A woman with legs and hands covered with black fuel oil is coming out from the sea at Batis, in Palaio Faliro, polluted with the tanker oil spill. Batis is one of the beaches in Athens Riviera affected by the …
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Woman found dead in oil spill sea area off Palaio Faliro beach
The body of a woman was found on Friday evening in the sea area off the beach of Batis, in Palaio Faliro, in Athens Riviera. Batis is one of the beaches where swimming has been banned due to the oil spill from the sunken tanker Agia Zoni II. According to …
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UPD Greek mother who injured in Barcelona terror attack died
UPDATE: the news of the death of the woman doe snot seem to confirm. by Fridat noon, Greek media report that the woman is ‘clinically dead’. Early Friday morning, KTG reported citing a Greek website that seemed to have been in contact with her family: The Greek mother of two …
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Belgian woman arrested on ferry to Greece over membership in terror group
A 22-year-old woman with Belgian citizenship was arrested on suspicion of membership in a terror group. The woman was arrested late Friday night while on a passenger ferry sailing from Italy to Greece, en route Bari-Corfu-Igoumenitsa. The arrest followed a Europol warrant on charges of extremism. The Greek Coast Guard …
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Corfu: Local authorities let body of drowned woman floating in the sea for hours
An unbelievably tragicomic incident although it is in fact just tragic. A woman was drowned in Glyfada area on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea. Neither the Port authorities nor the police not even the ambulance appeared at the scene and let the corpse floating in the sea …
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Crete: Russians say poisonous mushrooms kill Russian tourist, sent her husband to ICU
One Russian woman died and her husband is in intensive care unit with multiple organ collapse short after they arrived in Crete together with their minor-aged children. The incident occurred last Sunday and both the death and the illness were considered as “mysterious”. A week later, the mystery is allegedly …
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Austrian tourist suffers serious injuries in shocking kite surf accident on Naxos
A shocking accident on the island of Naxos. A 29-year-old Austrian tourist was seriously injured when strong winds swept away her kite surf. Carried away uncontrollably, she crashed on sun umbrellas, the roof of a restaurant and the wall of a beach hotel. Having suffered life-threatening injuries she tourist received …
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Three SAT commandos try to flee to Greece, as Turkish purge continues without mercy
Three commandos from the Turkish Underwater Attack Commandos (SAT) attempted to flee to Greece as the Turkish purge continues without mercy. A woman and her 3-day-old baby were thrown to jail for alleged links with the Gulen movement, the Turkish government considers as mastermind behind the failed coup attempt. The …
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Man claiming to be ‘blind’ arrested for raping and torturing young student
For someone who claimed he had 95% vision disability, the man walked rather quick and easy in the yard of the court in Athens. On Friday, Greek police had arrested the 52-year-old blind man for having repeatedly raped and tortured a young woman he held hostage for 24 hours in …
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Sinister trade: Food Merchant offers jobless mother of two “free meat” for “flesh”
A sinister trade. A wealthy merchant in the city of Patras, in western Greece, offered an impoverished mother of two “meat for free” if she would agree to give him her …”flesh.” The mother of two underage children and divorcee has been suffering from the impact of long-time unemployment, she …
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Lesvos: Baby, 3 children, 2 women die after refugees boat collides with Coast Guard vessel
No. There is no end. Refugees keep coming from Turkey to Greece and tragedies are endless. A baby, two little girls, a woman. They all died after their boat collided with a Greek Coast Guard vessel that was supposed to rescue them. Four more migrants are reportedly missing. The latest …
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Syrian refugee gives birth to baby-boy minutes after arriving by rubber boat to Greece
This must have been a horrible experience full of distress for the pregnant woman in labor, a young refugee from Syria. She survived the risky sail in the waters between Turkey and Greece on a rubber boat, while the labor had already started. A few minutes after she landed at …
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Lion of ECB, Mario Draghi, attacked by FEMEN activist during press conference (video, picts)
He was humming down data and figures, interest and inflation rates, his monotonous voice had already hypnotized his audience to close eyes and softly dose away. Suddenly, a screaming Erinys, an infernal Fury, a revenge-seeking goddess from an antique Greek drama jumped in front of him, hurling confetti and shouting …
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