Greek Police

Injured migrant found in Evros

Greek border guards patrolling the country's northeastern border region of Evros found an injured migrant, state-run broadcaster ERT reported on Thursday.

The man, a Moroccan national, had a wound in the abdomen. According to ERT, the migrant said he had been shot by Turkish military guards when he tried to cross the river dividing Turkey from Greece. 

Police searching for shooters in double killing

Greek police were searching on Thursday for the suspects behind the killing of two men that took place at the Piraeus municipality of Korydallos, shortly before midnight on Wednesday. 

One of the victims, who have only been identified by their initials, was known to the authorities for his role in extortion rings and had previously been accused of manslaughter. 

A Bulgarian was found Stabbed in the center of Athens

A Bulgarian man was found dead around 05:00 a.m. this morning on Vathi Square in the Greek capital Athens, Sky TV reported, quoted by BTA.

According to the initial information from the Greek police, the 61-year-old Bulgarian man was in front of a shop on Kamaterou Street when a man with a knife appeared in front of him. He was fatally stabbed in the chest.

Five Greek police officers in custody pending trial for assisting illegal migrant crossings

Five police officers accused of cooperating with human traffickers to facilitate the entry of at least 100 migrants into Greece are being held in custody pending trial.

The five officers had been testifying before an examining magistrate since Saturday morning at the border town of Orestiada, in northeastern Greece.

Golden Dawn Youths Invade North Macedonia Artist’s Exhibition in Greece

Members of the youth wing of the far-right Greek group Golden Dawn, with masks on their faces, on Wednesday night broke into an exhibition of the fine artist Sergej Andreevski from North Macedonia, held in the gallery of the Thessaloniki municipality of Kalamaria. They verbally attacked the artist and bragged later on the internet that they had shut down the exhibition.

Swedish police arrest man for Athens bank safe deposit box heist

Swedish police have arrested a 46-year-old man suspected of involvement in the case of the robbery from five safe deposit boxes in an Athens bank in July 2022.

Earlier this month, Greek police said they had identified three members of an international crime gang as being behind the theft of the contents of the safe deposit boxes in the Nea Smyrni suburb.

Man wanted by Interpol for child trafficking arrested in Athens

Police in Athens have arrested a 56-year-old fugitive wanted by the authorities in Albania for child trafficking.

The suspect, who was wanted on an Interpol arrest warrant, was tracked down in the central Athens district of Agios Nikolaos and taken into custody on Monday afternoon.

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