Crime

Greek police have busted a significant drug racket in raids in Athens, as well as Fthiotida and Patra in central and western Greece. The bust took place last Thursday, and on Monday the Greece Police (ELAS) announced that they had...

As they await trial, the three men who allegedly pushed 25-year-old student Nikolas Moustakas off Athens' Philopappou Hill during a tragic robbery gone wrong, have been jailed in prison on remand. They have appeared before investigating magistrates and are facing...

The mayor of Mykonos filed a complaint against former citizens’ protection minister Nikos Toskas and the chief of Hellenic Police at the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) on Wednesday, over lack of adequate police staff on the cosmopolitan island. Mayor Constantine...

The death of a young man in Athens who fell onto rocks from Filopappou Hill is being probed by Greek police. Detectives are looking into the how the 25-year-old died. A report in Greek newspaper Kathimerini noted the man's 23-year-old...

  A committee at a Greek university plagued by on-campus crime has said drafting in police officers has stemmed a tide of lawlessness. Thessaloniki's Aristotle University is one of the dozens of third-level institutions in Greece which has suffered from a...

A suspected burglar was left unconscious on the street after angry residents tackled him in central Athens. The man had been accused of trying to break into at least seven apartments. In Monday's incident, residents of an apartment block in the...

Police say new developments in the investigation of the couple that was murdered in Nicosia show that there were no signs of breaking and entering or burglary. In the autopsy, which lasted for several hours, the 60-year-old man was found...

Greek police on Wednesday said they have broken up a "large-scale criminal organization" linked to a wave of burglaries in Greece and France. A hundred Greek police were involved in an "large-scale joint European police operation" in the northern city...

Greece’s police are looking for clues into the murder of a 19-year-old man in the early hours of Sunday at a park in north Athens. The man was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant in the suburb of Marousi. He...

Greek prosecutors are to get involved in a developing scandal about allegations of violence, vandalism and general criminality plaguing some of the country's universities Athens Prosecutor's Chief Prosecutor Elias Zagoras is reportedly to start a preliminary investigation into reports of...