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Golden Dawn Trial's Sentencing Phase Continues in Criminal Appeals Court

The trial of the Golden Dawn organization resumed on Thursday, with the judges hearing arguments on whether or not the sentences already handed down to the organizations' members should be suspended. The sentencing phase  of the trial convened in the...

Criminal Organization Golden Dawn is Behind Bars For Good

Judges at the Athens Appeals Court announced near maximum sentences under Greek law for the convicted leaders and members of the criminal organization Golden Dawn. Leader Nikos Michaloliakos and five other leading members, including Christos Pappas, Ilias Kasidiaris, Ioannis Lagos,...

Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn is a Criminal Organization, Greek Court Rules

A Greek court ruled on Wednesday that the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party (GD) which had two representatives elected into Parliament from 2012 to 2019 operated as a criminal organization, systematically attacking migrants and leftists. The leader of GD, Nikos Michaloliakos,...

Erdogan Files Criminal Complaint Against Greek Newspaper

Lawyers acting on behalf of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan filed a criminal complaint against a Greek newspaper on Monday which recently ran a headline using offensive language about the Turkish leader. Turkey's official Anadolu News Agency reports that the...

Cyprus Allegedly Sells Passports to Criminals and Fugitives, Report says

Cyprus is giving passports to criminals and people under investigation through the investment program, says an Al Jazeera report, claiming access to documents of 1400 applications that were approved between 2017-2019, a Hellas Journal report says. The news agency's initial...

Government Reintroduces Criminalization of Blasphemy; Toughens Pedophile Sentences

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...

President Pavlopoulos Says Attack on SKAI TV "Criminal, Undemocratic"

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopios Pavlopoulos, has unequivocally condemned  Monday's terrorist attack on Greece’s SKAI TV station. In a statement today he also expressed his support for the owners and employees of the television and radio station, as...

Ankara Claims That Greece Is a 'Safe Haven' for Turkish Criminals

Turkey's foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglou, has said that Greece is a "safe haven" for Turkish criminals. His comments were published in the Greek newspaper Ta Nea on Saturday morning. Cavusoglou further noted that he was deeply saddened by the Greek judicial...

Dangerous Criminal Wanted by Interpol Arrested in Crete

Dangerous criminal Haris Saridis, who was wanted in Cyprus, was arrested on Wednesday night in Crete, after an organized operation by the Department of Special Missions of Crete. According to Cretalive news website, Saridis, a Georgian expatriate, escaped from the...

Turkish Justice Minister: Greece is a Safe Haven for Criminals from Turkey

"Since the defeated coup, Greece has been a safe haven for criminals from our country,” Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said on Saturday, according to Anadolu Agency. The Turkish minister criticized a Greek court order releasing one of eight fugitive...

Greek Suspected Neo-Nazis Charged with Running Criminal Cell

On Wednesday, 11 suspects were arrested during police operations to dismantle the extreme-right militant group 'C18' and were led before a public prosecutor. The prosecutor pressed criminal and other charges against them for a series of offenses, including acts committed as...

Professor Complains of Rampant Criminal Activity in University of Athens Campus

National Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) Deputy Professor Manos Stephanidis sent an open letter to the Dean of the School of Economics, Thanos Dimopoulos, complaining of criminal activities and lawlessness on campus. Stephanidis complains of a number of incidents at...

Career Criminal Shot Dead in Athens

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...

Funding Cuts Would be a Criminal Mistake, Greece's Migration Minister Says

Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas expressed concern over the possibility EU to "make a wrong move" and cut funds and staff from Greece in order to support Italy in the management of the refugee crisis, speaking on Sunday to...

Thessaloniki University Students Decry Repeated Criminal Activities on Campus

Students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have sent an official letter of complaint to the university dean and faculty demanding action against criminality on campus. The letter was signed by 471 undergraduate and graduate students and speaks of conditions...