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Desperate Greek Father Robs Bank To Pay Off Debt

An unprecedented story of true desperation and human drama unfolded in Ioannina. A man robbed a bank in order to pay his debt to a company via another bank. A 45 -year-old man, and father of two children, entered a...

Greek Restaurant Menu Included Escort Girls!

A restaurant in Northern Greece offered much more than just food, including escort services.  Aside from a menu that includes chops, souvlakis and kebabs, customers could also select an escort girl. A forty-five year old man in Ioannina owns the...

The Villages of Old People

“Our villages, breathe, are alive for 10 to 20 days in August and July, when those who live in Athens come. We get used to the people that come here, and then it’s difficult for us.” With these simple words,...

A Free Coffee for Thessaloniki’s Less Fortunate

Every day begins with a cup of coffee......at least for most of us, but what happens with the refugees and the homeless? Now, shop owners of Greece took the initiative to create the program “A cup of coffee is...

Greek Children Find 43,000 Euros

Children playing in Greece have found a bag containing 43,000 euros ($58,000) hidden by an elderly woman in a derelict building fearing the crisis-hit country's banks were unsafe. While playing near a square in the northwestern city of Ioannina on...

Ioannina: Parents Find Their Son Hanging

A 38-year-old man passed a noose around his neck and committed suicide in his house, in the region Kardamitsia, Ioannina. According to epirusgate, at dawn, his parents went inside their son's house where they found him hanging. Their screams woke...

Ioannina: Road Accident, Two Dead

According to ipeirotika.gr, two people lost their lives and another three were injured, after a road accident involving two trucks and a private car, which occurred in the region between Kaneta and the village Terovo. According to pamepreveza.gr, the car...

Eight People from Occupied Hospital Arrested

The G.Hatzikosta General hospital in Ioannina has been occupied for a long time. According to the Greek media, it seems that the police have arrested eight people. Five of them are from Bulgaria, two from Romania and one from...

Unpaid Dodoni Dairy Farmers Protest

Hundreds of breeders from Epirus, a Region northwestern of Greece, gathered July 26 outside the Dodoni dairy factory, demanding to be paid for the milk they had delivered and for which they said they had bot been compensated. Reports said...

American Photographer Abranowicz in Ioannina

American photographer William Abranowicz has been invited to participate in the art festival Fotometria that will take place in Ioannina, the largest city of Epirus in Greece. The photographer arrived in Ioannina on June 6 and his visit will last...