Greece

In a sensational new turn in the case, police on Saturday reported that the suspect killed during a counter-terrorism operation at Nea Aghialos in Volos was none other than the pilot of the helicopter in which notorious criminal Vassilis...

A notorious career criminal was shot dead in a car in Attica on Wednesday, according to Greek police. The body of Vassilis Stefanakos was found in the vehicle in Haidari, western Attica. Greek Police forensics team have so far recovered 22 bullets...

The Greek police counter-terrorism unit located and arrested two of the three people said to be involved in a bank robbery in Distomo last August, during a special operation held on Friday afternoon in Nea Anchialos, Volos, Central Greece. Georgios Petrakakos, Spyridon...

Just 24 hours after the robbery at Piraeus bank in Trikala, more information has surfaced shocking the people of Greece. On April 2, a film-like heist took place in Trikala, central Greece, with three assailants grabbing 197,000 euros from...

Self-proclaimed anarchist and accomplice of Greece's number one fugitive Vassilis Paleokostas, was arrested today at Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" while attempting to flee the country boarding to a Brussels flight, in violation of his parole. Polykarpos Georgiadis was recently...

Greek Police raided an apartment in Athens they believe was used by an accomplice of terrorist Nikos Maziotis who was arrested last month. The property in Patissia area had been rented by Giorgos Petrakakos, lieutenant of Revolutionary Struggle. The 35-year-old has...

Alket Rijai, a well-known Albanian convicted murderer took prison employees hostage at a central Greece jail late Saturday.  Rijai has been incarcerated in the Malandrino jail since 2003 after being convected of murder. The convict clams that he has explosives, including...

Inmates at Greece's largest jail have released four women and several other visitors and at least one prison guard following a failed escape attempt by a convicted murderer and members of an anarchist group, a lawyer for several of...

Greek police said an arrest warrant was issued for Vassilis Paleokostas, 45, in connection with a bomb that went off last June at a minister’s office, killing one. Paleokostas, who is already wanted following an escape in a chartered helicopter...

Greece's most notorious villain Vassilis Paleokostas (photo) who twice performed Hollywood-style helicopter getaways from prison could be hiding out in Cyprus according to intelligence received by the Cyprus Police department. Forty-four-year-old Vassilis Paleokostas is the younger brother of the equally...