Crime

The increasing number of migrants and refugees reaching the shores of Greece, Italy, and other European countries has done more than just create a collective action problem for Europe. “The only ones who benefit from the lack of a common European response...

A 24-year-old Greek man from the island of Crete was shot while enjoying his drink at a bar in Chania. The 25-year old shooter immediately left the scene but was later arrested by Greek police. However, the shooting was not...

An appalling crime took place on the Greek island of Hydra as a 67-year-old male lost his life during a burglary. During the early hours of Sunday, burglars broke into the house of a Greek couple and tied the wife and the...

Two men, a 72-year-old pharmacist and his 27-year-old son, were found dead in their home in Serres, northern Greece. Their bodies were found by the elder man’s daughter around 10:00 pm on July 28. Greek police and EMTs were...

Tony Papadimitriou, a 35-year-old Greek-Australian from Preston, Victoria, was arrested for the murder of his 68-year-old neighbor Donato Galgano. Papadimitriou appeared at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Saturday morning, July 11, and did not apply for bail. He was ordered...

A 27-year-old Bulgarian man suspected of having murdered his four-year-old daughter and then cutting her up to dispose of the body was on Tuesday remanded in custody, after testifying before the 10th examining magistrate in Athens. The unlucky girl's mother...

A man who was in Diavata prison for a triple homicide that took place in Oreokastro, Thessaloniki, northern Greece two months ago committed suicide in his cell. The man had been imprisoned after he murdered his sister, brother-in-law and...

Two siblings fighting over inheritance issues were involved in a crime that took place today in Korydallos, in Piraeus, Greece. The incident which occurred today, February 10 early in the morning resulted in the murder of two people. The tragic...

A 55-year-old man in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, murdered his sister, her husband and their 12-year-old boy at their home in the area of Oraiokastro. It appears that Athanasios Kamaris, the 55-year-old perpetrator, who used to work as a taxi driver,...

A man in Thessaloniki, northern Greece entered a flower shop earlier this morning and shot a woman twice. He then locked himself in the shop and refused to leave. Initially Greek police thought that the man was attempting to commit...