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Greek Police Create Special Domestic Violence Department
The Greek Police (ELAS) will be creating a new department to deal with domestic violence issues, according to a recent announcement.
The members of the new department will be tasked with the prevention of violence inside the family. They will receive...
Greek News
Greek Model’s Drug-Mule Trial Begins in Hong Kong
The trial of the Greek model Irene Melissaropoulou, who is charged with illegally bringing cocaine into Hong Kong, began on Thursday in the Chinese city.
Melissaropoulou was caught carrying 2.52 kilograms of cocaine, worth more than €300,000, inside a sewn-up pocket inside...
Crime
European Commission Asks EU Court To Fine Greece For Water Pollution
The European Commission on Thursday asked the EU's highest court, the European Court of Justice, to fine Greece over water pollution due to agricultural activity.
Referring to a previous court ruling on the issue of nitrate pollution in Greek waters, the...
Crime
Ioannina Cleaner Sentenced to Eight Years For Forged School Diploma
A cleaner from the Greek city of Ioannina has been convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for forging her primary school diploma in order to be hired at the city hospital, local media reported on Thursday.
There is still no...
Greece
Greek Bishop Amvrosios Found Guilty of Homophobia and Hatred
Amvrosios, the Greek-Orthodox bishop of Kalavryta, was found guilty of abuse of ecclesiastical office and incitement to hatred by a court in Aigio on Monday.
The northern Peloponnese bishop had advised people to spit on gays in 2015, saying ''do not...
Cyprus
UK to Pay €1.1 Million to Greek Cypriots Over Human Rights Abuses
The U.K. government announced on Wednesday that it reached a settlement over claims made by 33 EOKA veterans who were tortured while in detention during the 1955-1959 Cypriot struggle for liberation.
The ''full and final'' out-of-court settlement was reached between...
Greece
Seven People Charged in Sunday's Riots in Athens
Six men and a woman who were arrested on Sunday’s clashes at Syntagma Square were charged with two criminal offenses and six misdemeanors by the Athens public prosecutor on Monday.
The violent clashes which occurred outside the Greek parliament on Sunday during...
Crime
Manhunt Underway For Two Korydallos Prison Escapees
Two prisoners from Athens' Korydallos high-security prison of broke out in the early hours of Wednesday, forcing the Greek capital's police authorities to launch an extensive manhunt to locate and arrest the inmates, who are Albanian nationals.
The two Albanians were...
Crime
Gold-Smuggling Suspects to be Released From Jail
The eight suspects who had been arrested and held on charges of illegally smuggling gold out of the country are set to be released, most likely as soon as Wednesday evening, according to a decision by the Council of...
Crime
Former Greek Minister Sentenced For Usury
Former Greek minister Yiannis Anthopoulos and three other defendants were sentenced to 15-year suspended jail sentences on Wednesday for the crime of loan-sharking. The crime took place in the northeastern Greek city of Kavala.
Anthopoulos was a member of the...