Greece

Two men from Bulgaria have been taken into custody after allegedly attempting to kidnap a fourteen-year-old boy in Pyrgos. The crime occurred on Thursday, June 25. The men were arrested on Friday after the potential kidnapping target recognized one of...

Cyprus' Sigma Channel published a video showing the two 11-year-old boys being kidnapped by a Cypriot man in Larnaca, early morning on Tuesday. The video shows the 35-year-old man leading and the two boys following without knowing where they were heading. An order...

Themistoklis Doglis and Filippos Stamatakis, the two 11-year-old boys from Greece who live in Cyprus and were abducted on Tuesday morning, were found safe and sound, according to Cyprus' State TV RIK and the Cypriot Police. Their kidnapper, a 35-year-old Cypriot,...

A group of Greek Olympians have decided to protest Britain's refusal to return the Parthenon sculptures to Greece by protesting inside the British Museum; where the marbles are kept, while dressed as Caryatids. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, the protest...

Greek authorities say that most of the suspects in the case of the kidnapping of Greek businessman Michalis Lempidakis have been arrested. Lempidakis was held hostage for six months by a gang that demanded ransom for his release. He was...

A 16 year old girl arrested by police in connection to the kidnapping of Michalis Lempidakis in Crete, was released on bail by a prosecutor. The girl testified that she was ordered by her father; one of the main suspects...

Michalis Lempidakis turned up to work in his plastics factory in Crete, only a day after police freed him from his kidnappers. The 54-year-old businessman, who spent six months in captivity, seemed in good spirits as he chatted to employees...

Mexican police have reported that Olympiakos forward Alan Pulido has been found and is safe about 24 hours after his kidnapping. Footballer Alan Pulido was abducted near Ciudad Victoria in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as he and his girlfriend...

Three-and-a-half-year-old Maria-Eirini Printezi who went missing on Sunday afternoon was found on Monday by Hellenic Coast Guard officers in near Athens, Greece. Reportedly, according to Coast Guard officials, the first words the girl said were, "They let me go." Young...

A Greek terrorist group related to the arms hideout at Marathonas, along with their associate known terrorist Giorgos Petrakakos, were planning to kidnap Greek entrepreneurs and shipowners, announced the Greek police on Friday. According to Greek anti-terrorist unit's official announcement,...

Greek police have arrested the kidnappers of a 27-year-old woman, who was abducted on October 31 and released on November 9 after her family paid €82,000 in ransom. The 27-year-old is the niece of the owner of Asteras Tripoli’s...

An end was given today at the kidnapping case of a 27-year-old university student that was kidnapped from Athens, Greece. The case has been kept under wraps until today. The girl was the niece of Asteras Tripolis football team owner Giannis...

On January 31 in the Greek city Ioannina, a 59-year-old Greek was kidnapped by eight individuals, a Greek and seven Albanian, because of disputes between them, authorities said. The man was released on March 27 in Attica, without paying...

He has been kidnapped. He was hurt during street riots. Theories abound about what has happened to Singaporean medical student Kouk Leong Jin, 28, who has been missing in Athens for more than one week now. Wednesday was the eighth...

Police in Rethymno on Wednesday reported a further five arrests in connection with the abduction on the island of Crete of a 50-year-old lecturer from Manchester University in England. The five, all residents of Iraklio, have been charged as...