Aspropyrgos

The Greek Coast Guard arrested four persons in Aspropyrgos, northern Attica, alleged to be involved in a drug dealing ring on Wednesday. The operation was launched when Patras coast guard officers located approximately 43 kilos of cocaine hidden in a...

(Reuters) The ring of truck thieves that was dismantled in Athens last week was selling auto parts to Islamic State and African militia groups, Greek police says. The disclosure that parts from the stolen vehicles were cut in an Aspropyrgos scrapyard...

An unprecedented incident occurred on Saturday, June 6, when fire broke out at a recycling company in Aspropyrgos, Greece. The fire is still burning, however, the Greek Fire Department has the situation under control. They are trying to avoid...

Groups of Roma are plundering a warehouse of recyclable materials in Aspropyrgos, Greece, where a major fire broke out on Saturday afternoon, jeopardizing their lives. Firefighters managed to control the blaze on Sunday, which started for unknown reasons in a...

On February 2014, Hellenic Halyvourgia company announced the shutdown of its unit in Aspropyrgos and the layoff of 90 from a total of 107 workers.  However, 74 of those workers left under the company's voluntary plan. The decision for...

Greece's financial police on Friday said they had arrested the owner of an Aspropyrgos-based recycling company and his daughter on charges of dodging tax among other fraud, at an estimated cost to the Greek state of around two million euros. The company had undertaken contracts for the...

Greek Police arrested eight people for drug trafficking Monday during two major drug busts in northeast Greece and Attica. In the first case, two people, a man aged 19 and a woman aged 21, have been arrested after police’s anti-drug...

Members of the Directorate of Environment of the Regional Division of Western Attica, after an unannounced audit in the facilities of a waste management company, discovered a repugnant situation. A dangerous, toxic dump almost next to the residential zone...

After revelations from witnesses that the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn has hidden weapons in different regions of Greece, police set out to find if the accusations were true and searched places in Haidari, Aspropirgos and Nemea. A former Golden Dawn...

Lately, a series of attacks against bus drivers and passengers in Attica have been recorded, as well as vehicle damages. The bus drivers in Attica are afraid for their safety and their passengers’ too, and are asking for security...