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Education Ministry Investigates Case of Afghan Student Denied to Carry Parade Flag

The Greek ministry of Education has launched an investigation into the curious -and potentially racist- incident of an 11-year-old Afghan student who was evidently denied to carry the Greek flag in his student parade, despite being drawn to do...

Police Set-off Controlled Explosion of Device Planted Near Dafni Police Station

According to police reports, shortly before 3 a.m. an anonymous phone call reported to police emergency services that there was an explosive device behind the Dafni Police station which had only 40 minutes before it would explode. Emery services from the counterterrorism...

Three People Dead in Greek Psychiatric Hospital Fire

Three people were killed on Friday afternoon during a fire that broke out at the ground floor of Dafni Psychiatric Hospital in Athens, Greece. The three deceased individuals were hospital patients. The Greek Fire Department said that three more people were seriously injured. The...

Cases of Mental Illness in Greece Have Increased

Mental illness is another dark aspect of the Greek financial crisis which typically goes unseen, but the drastic changes in Greeks’ daily lives over the last years have had serious consequences on the state of the country's mental health. Psychiatric hospitals...

Vicky Stamati Facing Depression

When Vicky Stamati married Akis Tsochatzopoulos years ago, she probably didn’t foresee the difficult times ahead. It has been a month since she has been hospitalized in Dafni, and according to her doctors she is dealing with a severe...