Korydallos prison

After appearing in court on Oct. 3, Christos Pappas, the second-in-command of the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, was remanded in custody, joining his leader, Nikolaos Michaloliakos and another Member of Parliament, Yannis Lagos, who were being held in...

After soaring as high as 12 percent and more in polls, support for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party dropped 2.5 percent in the immediate aftermath of the killing of an anti-fascist on Sept. 18, for which a party member...

The French newspaper Le Figaro has an extensive reportage-tribute to the Korydallos prison in Athens, and especially to Wing 6, the so called VIP wing. The newspaper writes: In the lethargy of summer, there’s a place which is better protected from...

The terrorist organization, Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, claimed responsibility for the explosive device placed under the BMW car of the director of the Korydallos prison. The attack took place at 4.40 a.m. on June 7 in Dafni, eastern Athens, following...

The first morning hours of 11 April 2012, the Public prosecutor Popi Papandreou rang the bell of the neoclassical house at Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, announcing the former Minister of Defense his arrest warrant for political money laundering. Akis Tsochatzopoulos...

Six years after a rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Athens, five people have been convicted on terrorism-related charges for that incident for which the military group Revolutionary Struggle took credit, as well as other acts of violence. Two...

An official representing guards at Athens' maximum security Kordyallos prison has admitted they don't always watch closed circuit cameras on the site to check on possible escapes after a newspaper printed images showing an inmate climbing out of a...

Olivera Cirkovic, a 43-year-old Serbian woman in custody since March at Athens’s high-security (?) Korydallos Prison awaiting trial for jewelry theft, managed to escape on Thursday with the help of an accomplice, presumably not a Greek national. The woman is...

Just like her father, former Greek minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, Areti headed to Korydallos prison on Thursday, April 26. She was held in custody after her testimony before the examining magistrate. She faces money laundering charges, and the scandal appears to...