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Guard Kills Self After Fatal Accident

A Greek police special guard who learned that an elderly woman he had hit with his motorcycle on Dec. 22 while he was off duty died of her injuries killed himself with his service revolve minutes later, police said. The...

Man Sets Himself on Fire in Athens

Just before 7am this morning, policemen on patrol in central Athens, Greece, came across a young man on fire at the junction of Agiou Meletiou and Acharnon. According to eyewitnesses, the man bathed himself in flammable liquid and then deliberately...

Greek Police Chief Accused by Amnesty International of Racist Comments

  Amnesty International has called on the Greek government to investigate allegations that the Greek Chief of Police advised officers that undocumented immigrants should be detained for as long as possible, and their “lives made unbearable.” This was part of a related...

Thessaloniki: Convictions Made for Illegal Greek Citizenship

The Assize Court of Thessaloniki sentenced seven people today, including four police officers serving at Ano Polis. Specifically, Albanian citizens are condemned because they illegally obtained Greek citizenship through naturalization. The case was revealed after investigations made by Greek...

Greek Authorities Arrest Pakistanis for Holding Syrians Captive

On Sunday, December 15, the Greek authorities arrested four Pakistanis that are members of a criminal organisation. According to the Greek Police, the organisation is specialised on seizing immigrants, smuggling them and keeping them captive until a relative would...

Policeman, 2 Albanians Dead in Firefight in Northwest Greece

In yet another showdown between police and undocumented migrants, a police sergeant and two Albanians were killed in a shootout near Greece's northern border at dawn on Dec. 8. Police said a patrol of three officers came across the Albanians...

Fatally Injured Man Robbed in Ilia

A 30 year-old man, father of two kids, was found yesterday morning in Ilia in Peloponnese, fatally injured after a motorcycle accident. It was reported that around 5 am on Sunday when the man was returning home after a...

Greek Police Announcement on Golden Dawn Members Shooting

Greek Police announcement regarding the fatal injury of two Greek citizens and the serious injury of another one by unknown perpetrators’ gunfire in Neo Iraklio, Attica. On Friday evening, November 1st 2013, at around 19.00, four (4) Greek citizens, who...

Bomb Explodes Outside Greek Tax Office

A bomb exploded early Thursday outside a tax office in northern Athens, causing material damage but no injuries, Greek police said. The explosion at 0200 GMT in Kifissia district was preceded by telephone warnings placed by an anonymous caller to...

Golden Dawn's "Military School"

According to photographic documents, the paramilitary groups of the Golden Dawn extreme far-right party are being objected to tough tests. According to the Ethnos news report, young men dressed in camouflage uniforms, hooded full face and military knives in their...