Greek Police

After three months in hiding, Greek police have arrested two former Macedonian secret policemen, Goran Grujevski and Nikola Boskoski, wanted in Macedonia for their alleged involvement in the country's illegal wiretapping scandal.

The two men were arrested in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Wednesday under a warrant issued by Macedonia.

European police forces cannot impose blanket height restrictions on recruits because that discriminates against women, the EU's top court ruled on Wednesday, throwing out an argument from the Greek government.

Police have found DNA traces of murderers at the office of 52-year-old lawyer, Michael Zafeiropoulos, who was murdered on Thursday night in his office on 154, Asklepio Street.
The material, which is believed to belong to the two killers and found in the meeting room, includes, according to information, hair and other elements.

Greece should not extradite, deport or otherwise facilitate the return of a Tajik opposition activist to Tajikistan, where he faces possible torture or ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

More than 1,300 people were swindled via Facebook by fraudsters who made more than 100,000 euros selling counterfeit brand name shoes. Four suspects, aged 62, 43, 39 and 34, have been implicated in the case and have been charged for posting misleading advertisements for brand name shoes at very low prices.

A Turkish police officer surrended to the Greek immigration police in Athens asking for political asylum.

The 35-year-old officer was serving in the Turkish police’s surveillance unit making his case quite interesting for the Greek authorities.

Self-proclaimed anarchists burst into the Spanish embassy in Athens on Wednesday and threw leaflets in favor of Catalonian independence, an embassy official said.

The embassy staff evacuated the premises leaving only a few diplomats inside, the official said. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

Greek police say they have arrested eight migrant traffickers who smuggled 49 migrants through Greece's land border with Turkey.

The arrests of the traffickers, six Bulgarians, a Syrian and a Pakistani, were made Saturday in northeastern Greece, most close to the border.

The biggest case involved two Bulgarians who had stashed 17 Syrians in a crypt inside a tourist bus.

Bulgaria's Minister of Interior Valentin Radev participated in a quadripartite meeting between Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia and Albania, held in Thessaloniki on 5th of October. The main topics of the meeting were migration, countering terrorism and organized crime.

The family of businessman Michalis Lempidakis plans to donate new patrol vehicles and equipment to the Greek police force in a show of appreciation, after law enforcement officers managed to detect and release the man from his abductors in Crete. wanted to go today to his company, the Plastics Crete plant.