Greece

It may sound unbelievable, but clergymen, teachers, doctors, nurses and members of foster families are among 348 people arrested globally, and accused of belonging in a pedophilia ring. After investigations--which lasted 3 years and were conducted in 50 countries--the...

Greek Minister of Justice Costas Tsiaras announced in Parliament on Monday that the government intends to bring forward some landmark changes to the country's Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Codes. Among the most prominent changes will be the resumption of the...

Greek Cyber Crime Unit Head Manolis Sfakianakis presented shocking data to the Parliament regarding pedophiles, operating mostly in Athens. According to data released by Sfakianakis, one particular pedophile had managed to lure ten children from Athens, using an online game called “Dress...

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Greek Police cracked down a child pornography ring in Greece after receiving complaints by a 12-year-old girl. The perpetrators acted through Facebook. Investigation began after the girl filed a complaint stating that people she didn't know...

Nine people were arrested in Greece, including a French national, while hundreds of others have been arrested around Europe in a major Europol crackdown on online child sexual abuse file-sharing networks, code-named "Operation Icarus". High-ranking diplomats, a senior army officer,...

GREEK BEAT Who says Socialism isn’t working in Greece just because the government has dismantled social welfare programs, cut worker’s pay by 30 percent, raised their taxes (making the poor pay while rich tax evaders don’t), has slashed pensions, is...

Greek disability groups are angry at the government's decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs. The National Confederation of Disabled People called the action “incomprehensible,” and said pedophiles are now awarded a...

Nikos Siragakis’ wife was eventually forced to leave her house and life in Rethymno, Crete, with her two boys after her husband was arrested for molesting some 80 boys. In order to protect her young children from the libel and...

The story of Alexandros Iolas, Greece's greatest art collector, reads, appropriately, like a Greek tragedy.

When Alexandros Iolas died in June 1987, Greece lost not only one of the world's greatest art collectors who was willing to donate his priceless possessions to the Greek state, but also a man who contributed greatly to the...

The story of Alexandros Iolas, Greece's greatest art collector, reads, appropriately, like a Greek tragedy.

A Greek court handed down a 28-month suspended sentence on Tuesday to Nikos Georgiadis a former conservative MP, diplomat and vice president of the American College of Greece, who was found guilty of the sexual abuse of minors in...

A 52-year-old woman working as a foreign language teacher was arrested yesterday for pedophilia by men of the Cyber Crime Department of the Greek Police in Athens. This is the first case of a female pedophile being arrested in...

While the local community of Rethymno, Crete, is still trying to recover from the shocking details of the pedophile teacher and coach Nikos Siragakis, a new case of child molestation has come to light. A 50-year-old owner of a fitness club,...