prison escape

The Greek police have launched a manhunt for three Albanian inmates who escaped from an Athens detention unit in the early hours of Monday. A fourth inmate was arrested several hours after the escape from the detention location on Petrou...

A Greek prison is on lockdown after the discovery of a tunnel that could have been used for a future escape. While searching the cell of an inmate, prison guards of the Trikala Prison in Northern Greece found an entrance to...

Five detainees at a police station in Pyrgos, southwestern Greece, managed to escape their holding facility Saturday night by breaking a window with a metal object. Police are searching for the four Greek Roma inmates and the one Pakistani, and have launched...

Dramatic video footage has appeared on Greek news site www.nocomment.gr of convicted murderer and racketeer Panayiotis Vlastos' failed attempt to escape from by helicopter from Trikala prison on Feb. 24. The video shows the life-serving prisoner falling around five meters,...