Homicide

A jury in the western U.S. state of Colorado on Friday found two paramedics guilty of negligent homicide in the death of a Black man who was put in a chokehold and injected with ketamine during his arrest, U.S. media said.

The 37-year-old owner of three dogs that fatally wounded a 50-year-old woman last Sunday in Neochorouda, just outside Thessaloniki, was incarcerated on Wednesday. The prosecutor and the magistrate unanimously decided that the accused should be held in custody pending trial.

The owner of the dogs who fatally injured a 5-year-old boy in 2016 in Kozani, western Macedonia was convicted of manslaughter on Tuesday.

According to state broadcaster ERT, the owner of the rottweilers was sentenced to four years in prison without suspension or 10 euro bail per day.

The police officer who shot and killed the 17-year-old Roma boy on Saturday night was criminally prosecuted for manslaughter with intent on Monday. 

The 41-year-old police sergeant was supposed to testify before a prosecutor in Thebes on Monday which was postponed until Thursday.

Three people are facing charges in relation to the death of a 23-year-old pregnant woman in the central Athens district of Kypseli, whose dead body was found wrapped in a blanket in October 2021.

Police arrested three women known to the dead woman at noon on Wednesday.

The 69-year-old man who was arrested for the murder of his 42-year-old daughter, in the Thessaloniki suburb of Sykies was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday.

The case file was forwarded to the First Instance Prosecutor's Office of Thessaloniki which then initiated the procedure for criminal prosecution. 

The Prosecutor at the Larissa Court of Appeals filed criminal charges against four former executives at the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) on Monday over the Tempi rail collision that left 57 people dead last February.

The charges have been filed against two former Presidents and Managing Directors, one former Managing Director, and an Executive Board Member of OSE.

A 27-year-old delivery worker has been remanded into pretrial custody on charges of manslaughter through grievous bodily harm in the northern port city of Thessaloniki over the death of a man, aged 50, during a physical altercation.

Testifying before an investigating magistrate on Thursday, the suspect said he did not intend to kill the victim, who, he claimed, "started the fight."

A Cyprus court on Friday found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home guilty of manslaughter, saying that the prosecution didn't prove beyond reasonable doubt that the 76-year-old man committed premeditated murder.

A mixed jury court in Thessaloniki on Thursday unanimously found all 12 defendants in a trial over the killing of 19-year-old Alkis Kampanos in the northern port city in February last year guilty of murder.

The jury found seven of the 12 youths guilty of manslaughter with possible intent - lowered from an initial charge of premeditated murder - and five guilty of complicity.