Greece

The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) has refused to allow the installation of CCTV systems for the protection of passenger in subway train carriages. HDPA is remaining true to its principle that, “The protection of personal data and privacy of...

Greek police hope they may be aided in their investigation into the point-blank execution of two members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party by video footage of the killings taken by CCTV cameras on the spot and at about...

The investigative website Nordic Monitor recently published an extensive report claiming there is evidence that Turkish secret services have for year been conducting operations on Greek territory to locate dissident Turks who fled their country to avoid political persecution. Ankara has...

Thousands of refugees and migrants remain behind a wire fence on the Greek-Turkish border in Evros, hoping to cross to the Greek side of the border. The country has been constantly strengthening its border with police and military forces from...

Authorities in the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus have issued an arrest warrant for a 16-year-old Greek-Cypriot boy for allegedly taking down a Turkish flag from a schoolyard in the occupied town of Lysi. The incident, captured on a CCTV camera,...

A Greek-Cypriot student was spotted bringing down the Turkish flag last Sunday from a school in the occupied town of Lysi in the north of Cyprus. The incident, captured on a CCTV camera, reportedly occurred as hundreds of Greek Cypriots...

A newborn infant, just a few days old, was found abandoned in the early hours of Wednesday inside a shopping cart at the entrance of an apartment block in Nea Ionia, a suburb of Athens. Residents and neighbors were shocked...

Greek police have arrested the managers of a Rhodes hotel where two French sisters drowned in its the swimming pool on Wednesday. The two girls, aged 16 and 19 years old, were holidaying on the island with their families. The incident...

The headquarters of a company based in the Athens suburb of Metamorphosis was robbed during the early hours of Thursday, according to Greek media reports. The sophisticated burglars managed to deactivate all the alarms that were placed in the building and...

Greek police arrested on Thursday a Bulgarian man in connection with the execution-style killing of Greek-Australian businessman Yiannis Makris in the southern Athenian suburb of Voula on October 31, 2018. Police have now arrested a 31-year-old Bulgarian suspect in connection...

Strong winds that have swept across Greece since Thursday knocked down a monument in the town of Eratini in Central Greece's Fokida region on Friday. A CCTV video captured the moment when the strong winds lifted a huge piece of...

A 29-year-old man from the island of Lesvos has been arrested and is to appear before an examining magistrate on Wednesday, facing charges of inflicting grievous bodily harm and weapons violations, state-run news agency AMNA reports. The man is accused of...

According to Ekathimerini Newspaper, early on Sunday morning, the Canadian Embassy in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri was attacked by a group of around 10 people. Soon after the attack, the 'Rubicon' Anarchists group took credit for it, making the...

Two Bulgarian-Roma women sought by Greek authorities for vandalizing museum exhibits with an oily substance were arrested at the National Museum of History on Sunday. The two women allegedly told police that they daubed the works with oil and myrrh...

Video footage has emerged of an apparent racist attack on a Pakistani man by a group of teenagers in Athens on Sunday. The footage shows at least five suspects, whom the victim has described as being between 15 and 18-years-old,...