Crime

Greece's Supreme Court Public Prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos ordered an investigation into a cyber-attack on the data bank providing the school exam questions, with the assistance of the Police's Cyber Crime Unit.

The integrity of the exam process in Greek public education is one of the achievements of the system. At the very least, it needs to be properly protected, even if it means investing in specialized safeguards against malicious cyberattacks.

The standing of public education as a whole depends on the validity of the exams and their smooth operation.

The Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country's history, aimed at disabling a centralized high school examination platform.

"A murder involving the target's family is not typical of Bulgarian crime. There is only one exception from Burgas". This is what the security expert Tihomir Bezlov told the National Television on the occasion of the shooting of Krasimir Kamenov - Karo yesterday in South Africa.

Without debate, with 19 votes "for", without a single "against" and "abstentions", the Legal Committee of the Parliament approved in the second reading the amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, introducing a mechanism of control over the Prosecutor General.

Police arrested on Wednesday night a trolley bus driver after an anonymous tip informing them that the man he was carrying a weapon.

The driver, who serves route 20 from Faliro to Drapetsona, was detained  in Piraeus. During the search, officers found an air gun and a police baton which were confiscated. 

The suspect will be led before a prosecutor on Thursday.

Almost half of the victims said they reported the violence they suffered to the police. Of the 27 women who shared their experiences in the questionnaire, 44 per cent said the instructions they received from competent institutions after reporting were unclear. A larger percentage of respondents, over 56 per cent, complained about the Centres for Social Work.

At the session of the National Assembly, MPs considered the Report on the security situation that arose after the mass murders in the Elementary School "Vladislav Ribnikar" and in the area of Smederevo and Mladenovac, which was submitted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.

Four foreign nationals were arrested by security officers of the Piraeus and Kimi port authorities, it was reported on Tuesday, on suspicion of transporting migrants from Turkey to Greece and other European countries.

A wide-reaching review of bank accounts, including of the bosses of some of Slovenia's main media outlets, has raised speculation about potential political abuse of the Office for Money Laundering Prevention under the previous government.