Greece

Convicted Greek terrorist Nikos Maziotis responded with a “political statement” to the examining prosecutor who visited Korydallos Prison earlier on Monday to get his testimony. Maziotis, who is held in the prison infirmary under tight security, allegedly responded to the charges against him...

A 27-year-old Syrian man charged with two crimes linked to ISIS terror attacks was led to prison after his testimony to the public prosecutor on Tuesday, during which he denied being an ISIS fighter. The Syrian was remanded into custody...

Two suspects accused of participating in the terror group "Revolutionary Self Defense" were on Tuesday remanded into custody after testifying before an examining magistrate in Athens. The two suspects, aged 41 and 45, were arrested last Saturday during a major...

The 27-year-old man who has been charged with the murder of the 60-year-old American biologist Dr. Suzanne Eaton was remanded in custody on Friday. This happened immediately after the suspect testified before an examining magistrate of the city of Chania,...

Two of Greece's most prominent lawyers were arrested on Thursday and Friday, suspected of taking part in the so-called "prison mafia" scandal which has shocked the country's legal establishment. Alexandros Lykourezos and Theodoros Panagopoulos were arrested by officers of the...

Six men and a woman who were arrested on Sunday’s clashes at Syntagma Square  were charged with two criminal offenses and six misdemeanors by the Athens public prosecutor on Monday. The violent clashes which occurred outside the Greek parliament on Sunday during...

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...

Police officers involved in the Athens beating death of 33-year-old LGBTQ activist Zak Kostopoulos now face charges of inflicting fatal bodily harm and will appear in front of the examining magistrate on Monday. The attack on Kostopoulos occurred on September 21, 2018,...

The sixty-three men arrested on charges of illegally smuggling gold out of the country will present their testimony to the examining magistrate beginning on Friday in Athens. The process is expected to continue through to Sunday, with the extremely large number...

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...

  An Afghan national who was caught carrying dozens of detonators when detained for not paying a restaurant bill has been charged with illegal possession of explosives, the Greek authorities announced on Monday. According to a police announcement, the foreign national...

An operation to raise the sunken tanker "Agia Zoni II" - responsible for the oil spill that polluted large stretches of the coastline in the Saronic Gulf - was successfully concluded on Wednesday. The tanker will now be towed to...

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...

Greece's financial police on Friday announced the bust of a ring running a major racket involving the trade of mobile phones and electronic devices, which is estimated to have cost the Greek state millions of euros over the last...

A 42-year-old member of the far-right Golden Dawn party was led to jail on Wednesday, after he was identified by the victim of an assault committed in Athens' Ambelokipi district last Friday. According to the 24-year-old student, who was...