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Greek Police Bust Huge Cocaine Ring

Greek police dismantled a drug ring which was importing and distributing huge quantities of cocaine in the country. A 43-year-old foreign national and two Greeks were arrested in the Athens district of Nea Halkidona on Saturday afternoon, after 20 packages...

Police Arrest 19 for Stealing Railway Equipment; Over 7 mln Loss to State

Greek Police arrested 19 individuals, including a Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) manager and employees, who worked in a gang stealing railway equipment valued at over 7 million euros. The gang's activity, spread in several cities of Greece, began operations on...

Golden Dawn Trial Witness Reveals Gruesome Party Practices

Weapons, slaughtering of lambs to “find arteries”, and beatings of members who wanted to leave the organization are some of the terrifying details an ex-member code-named “Witness E”, told the court during the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn trial. The witness’...

Nine Turkish Terrorism Suspects Arrested in Athens Detained Pending Trial

A Greek court on Monday ordered the detention of nine Turkish citizens of Kurdish descent pending trial for terrorism-related offences, including links to a banned militant group behind a series of suicide bombings in Turkey. Greek police arrested the eight...

Turkish Suspects Charged with Terrorism-related Offences

Nine Kurds carrying Turkish passports were charged with terrorism-related offences on Wednesday, and accused of hoarding explosives and of links to an outlawed Kurdish militant organisation responsible for suicide bombings in Turkey. The arrest of eight men and a woman...

Ten Suspects Arrested as Police Bust Drug Distribution Ring in Greek Schools

Eight Albanians and two Greeks, aged between 18 and 26, have been arrested in Athens after a concerted operation by the Greek Police to uncover drug trafficking in Greek high schools and universities. They were part of a large criminal...

Parcel Bombs Terror Suspect to be Kept in Custody

A special appeals examining magistrate for terrorism issues and prosecutor, ordered that terror suspect Constantinos Yiagtzoglou be remanded in custody, following his testimony on Wednesday evening. Yiagtzoglou, 29, was arrested on Saturday and faces charges in connection with the letter...

While Greek PM Calls for Investors, his Men Try to Chase them Away

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is either having a problem accepting the truth, or he is completely disconnected from his cabinet and comrades. Or both. Although on Saturday he declared that Greece is "thirsty" for foreign investments and urged...

For the Sake of Greece They Must Get the Golden Dawn Trial Right

The trial of 69 members of Golden Dawn, Greece’s far-right party, has been a stop-start affair, with the emphasis on “stop”.

Golden Dawn MP Michos Under House Arrest

The Greek Appeals Court that convened on Tuesday decided to adopt prosecutor Isidoros Doyiakos' opinion that Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos should be placed under house arrest after a disagreement between the prosecutor and the examining magistrates responsible for...

Golden Dawn Hands Out 'Greeks-Only' Easter Meals

Golden Dawn distributed food to needy Greeks who could prove themselves as such outside the ultra-nationalist party's Athens headquarters on Thursday morning. Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris said: "Our "terrorist organisation" is organising food distributions instead of having fun in villas." When asked about a possible...

Piraeus Bans Golden Dawn Food Handouts

The Mayor of Piraeus, Vasilis Michaloliakos has banned Golden Dawn’s food distribution “for Greeks only”, which was due to take place on Saturday at 11 in the morning outside the new Municipal Theater. Michaloliakos sent a letter to the Chief of Police...

Greek Authorities Arrest Pakistanis for Holding Syrians Captive

On Sunday, December 15, the Greek authorities arrested four Pakistanis that are members of a criminal organisation. According to the Greek Police, the organisation is specialised on seizing immigrants, smuggling them and keeping them captive until a relative would...

Concern for Greek Golden Dawn's Rise in Poll Numbers

The Metron Analysis poll for this Sunday’s newspaper “TO ETHNOS” caused quite a stir, seeing as it records a strong growth of Golden Dawn after the double murder of the organization members in Neo Iraklion, Greece. Specifically, Golden Dawn...

Wife of Golden Dawn Leader Spits in Reporter's Face (Video)

Eleni Zaroulia, the wife of jailed Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos, spits on a reporters face when she sees him with his camera crew outside her home in Athens, Greece. Vagelis Goumas, a reporter for the Greek TV station Star Channel tried...