Athens hospital

Veteran leftist and World War II resistance fighter Manolis Glezos died Monday at the age of 97. He died of heart failure at a central Athens hospital after being admitted on March 18. Respected across the Greek political spectrum, he was most famous for climbing the walls of the Acropolis in 1941 to take down the Nazi flag. He was sentenced to death in absentia.

The first woman in Greece to give birth while being infected with the new coronavirus was discharged from an Athens hospital on Friday, after two Covid-19 tests came back negative.

The 24-year-old mother and her baby boy, who remained for two weeks in isolation in the Attikon General Hospital, are healthy and can go home, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

A 7-year-old girl was in critical condition at an Athens hospital over the weekend after a motorist lost control of his vehicle in the early hours of Friday in the Athens neighborhood of Gyzi and hit the girl while she was walking with her grandmother on the sidewalk.

SYRIZA MP Tryfonas Alexiadis, 60, was rushed to an Athens hospital on Tuesday after fainting during a meeting of his party's parliamentary group in a House chamber.

Alexiadis, who served as alternate finance minister in the SYRIZA government under Alexis Tsipras, was given first aid at the scene by lawmakers Pavlos Polakis and Yiannis Mouzalas, who are physicians.

A 34-year-old Albanian national was shot and injured on Friday morning by two assailants on the resort island of Mykonos while driving a van.
According to reports, the two assailants, riding a scooter and wearing helmets, approached the van and fired on the driver at close range.

Eighteen years after his crimes were committed, Greece's most notorious criminal, Costas Passaris, was sentenced in absentia to four life terms and a further 71 years in prison for four murders and a slew of other felonies by an appeals court in Athens.

Judges and the jury found him unanimously guilty of four murders, six attempted murders, three robberies and an abduction.

A 70-year-old retired Greek officer shot his Bulgarian girlfriend and killed himself, Ekathimerini.com reported.
 
Police in Athens said they were investigating the death of a man who shot himself after trying to kill his partner, a 60-year-old Bulgarian.
 
The elderly couple was taken to an Athens hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, but doctors could not save them.

Veteran composer Mikis Theodorakis is being treated for breathing problems and heart rate irregularities (tachyarrhythmia) at the Athens Medical Centre since February 26, the hospital said in a press release Thursday.
According to the statement, he is receiving intravenous medication and his treatment is continuing.

A man who is believed to be an Afghan national died at an Athens hospital on Thursday after apparently being involved in a brawl between rival migrant groups in downtown Omonia Square.

According to reports, the incident occurred during a clash between an unknown number of Pakistani and Afghan men on Menandrou Street at around 6.30 p.m.

A leading member of the anarchist group Rouvikonas is to stand trial on charges of disturbing the peace next Wednesday after facing a prosecutor on Tuesday for allegedly making a threatening call to an Athens hospital.