Greece

Mordechai Frizis (Μαρδοχαίος Φριζής), who fought in the Crimea and in the doomed Asia Minor campaign as well as the two World Wars, was the first senior officer in the Greek Army to fall on the battlefield during the...

The father of the 27-year-old man who confessed to the killing of American biologist Suzanne Eaton, 60, apologized to her family through a letter released to the press by defense attorney Pantelis Zelios. The communication stated that he was shocked...

Angela Merkel recognized Germany's responsibility for WW II war crimes committed by the Nazis in Greece during her meeting with the Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Friday. Following her laying a wreath at the Unknown Soldier's Monument at Syntagma square,...

The mayor of Mykonos filed a complaint against former citizens’ protection minister Nikos Toskas and the chief of Hellenic Police at the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) on Wednesday, over lack of adequate police staff on the cosmopolitan island. Mayor Constantine...

  A committee at a Greek university plagued by on-campus crime has said drafting in police officers has stemmed a tide of lawlessness. Thessaloniki's Aristotle University is one of the dozens of third-level institutions in Greece which has suffered from a...

Greek prosecutors are to get involved in a developing scandal about allegations of violence, vandalism and general criminality plaguing some of the country's universities Athens Prosecutor's Chief Prosecutor Elias Zagoras is reportedly to start a preliminary investigation into reports of...

Greece's supreme court cleared the way on Wednesday for the extradition to the United States of a Russian man, also wanted in Moscow, suspected of having laundered billions of dollars in the digital currency bitcoin. A final decision on where...

US tech giant McAfee warned on Wednesday that 2018 will see a rise in online attacks, at a time when the EU is deliberating calls to beef up its Greece-based cybercrime agency. In its McAfee Labs 2018 Threats Predictions Report,...

Greek and Albanian police chiefs decided on Thursday on a coordinated plan of action involving police officers in Greece and Albania to deal with the major drug problem between the two countries and cross-border crime in general. Hellenic Police chief...

In the past few days, Athens has become a theater of violence and vandalism. The prime minister and government officials verbally "condemn" the violent incidents and call for the pertinent ministry to take action. However, the official statements condemning...

The former head of the Financial Crime Squad (SDOE); Yiannis Diotis, was given a 10-year suspended sentence over his handling of the so-called Lagarde list. A three-member appeals Court of Athens unanimously found Diotis guilty of failing to use the data...

The cyber-crime division of the Greek Police (CCD) warned Greek citizens on Wednesday not to answer cellphone calls or SMS text messages by phone numbers with the prefixes 00387 and 00960, as they are being used by cyber criminals...

A Greek Misdemeanours Court on Thursday handed down a six-month prison sentence, suspended for three years, for far-right Golden Dawn party MP Ilias Kasidiaris after finding him guilty of inciting others to commit crimes. The conviction against Kasidiaris concerns a...

Estonia’s Justice Minister Urmas Reinsalu has announced that he will reply in writing to his Greek counterpart, Stavros Kontonis, who refused to participate in a conference on crimes committed by Communist regimes held in Tallinn on August 23. According to...

  The Greek government has refused to participate in a conference in Estonia on August 23 titled "The Heritage in 21st Century Europe of the Crimes Committed by Communist Regimes." Greece is the only EU member state that abstains. The decision...