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Attica's Traffic Police: 494 Road Accidents in June, Fifteen People Dead
Fifteen people lost their lives and 566 were injured in a total of 494 road accidents which occurred in June, in the region of Attica alone, data by Attica's Traffic Police Directorate showed on Sunday.
The main causes of these...
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Chief of Athens Traffic Police Violently Beaten After Protest Rally
Chief of Athens Traffic Police Giorgos Diamantopoulios was violently beaten by an attacker on Monday night after a protest rally in the capital's center.
The incident took place a little before midnight, when Diamantopoulos -- who was on duty in...
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Hit and Run Traffic Policeman Abandoned By Driver
A 37-year-old driver, instead of complying with what the traffic policeman asked him to do and stop his car, sped up more and fell on to the traffic policeman and seriously injured him. What's more, he didn't get out of his...
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Traffic Police Increase to Prepare for Large Influx of Vacationers
Traffic police yesterday intensified patrols on the country’s national road network as thousands of Greeks left Athens to begin their summer holidays. This action was taken in order to prevent accidents and malfunctions of the road network.
Greece's ports and airports were crowded...
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Fresh Clashes Between Leftists and Police Disrupt Traffic in Central Athens
Clashes between leftist students and police seem to have returned to central Athens for good since, for yet another day, the city center of the Greek capital was closed on Thursday, as thousands of students marched against the new,...
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Clashes Between Vandals and Police Disrupt Traffic in Athens
Clashes erupted on Wednesday afternoon between a group of unknown individuals and police forces in central Athens.
The incidents took place outside of the University of Economics (ASOEE) on Patission Street, when a number of hooded individuals began setting trash...
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Greek Police Bust Migrant Trafficking Gang in Thessaloniki
Greek police in Thessaloniki arrested three suspects for the crime of human trafficking after it discovered sixteen migrants held in a secret basement on Wednesday.
Officers removed a wardrobe and discovered a hatch in the floor which led to the...
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Greek Police Bust Drug Trafficking Gang and Seize Over 27 kg of Cannabis
Greek police have busted a significant drug racket in raids in Athens, as well as Fthiotida and Patra in central and western Greece.
The bust took place last Thursday, and on Monday the Greece Police (ELAS) announced that they had...
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Greek Police Wound Migrant Trafficking Suspect After Pursuit
Authorities in northern Greece say the Greek police have shot a migrant trafficking suspect who allegedly was transporting 10 Pakistani migrants inside a van that crashed during a highway chase.
Greek police said the 22-year-old suspect was driving a van...
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Greek Police Arrest Trafficker with 90 Migrants in Truck
Greek police say they have arrested a trafficker outside the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki carrying 90 migrants in his truck container.
Police said on Saturday that the suspect is a 55-year-old truck driver from Greece.
The migrants included 21 minors,...
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Education Minister Criticizes Thessaloniki University Dean for Seeking Police Help to Deal with Drug Trafficking on Campus
Greece's Education Minister Costas Gavroglou, criticized the unanimous decision of the Dean and the Rector's Council of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), to seek police assistance in dealing with drug trafficking and drug use on campus, by non-students.
According to...
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Corfu Police Bust Major Heroin-Trafficking Ring
A major heroin-trafficking ring operating on the island of Corfu, Greece, has been dismantled by the Corfu Police drugs squad after a months-long investigation, the island's police announced on Friday. The 28-member criminal organization, which imported the drugs from...
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Attica Security Police Dismantle Migrant-Trafficking Ring Operating in Greece, Italy
A major operation by the Attica Security Police Organized Crime Squad was underway on Friday to dismantle a network of migrant traffickers illegally smuggling people into Greece from Turkey and from there by boat to Italy and other European...
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Greek Police Bust Gang Trafficking Ancient Relics
The AFP has reported that a gang of antique smugglers was busted by the Greek police on Tuesday.
Thus far, following a nationwide raid Greek police have arrested 26 individuals in connection with smuggling antique relics. Of the arrests, six...
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Athens-Based Businesses and an NGO a 'Front' for Migrant-Traffickers, Police Say
A group of companies and a non-governmental organizations, all based in Athens, Greece, were acting as a front for migrant trafficking outfits operating around Omonia Square, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) announced on Friday. The rings supplied refugees and migrants...