I (Almost) Got Away With It

A 69-year-old man who had been missing since September 2023 after violating his prison leave was arrested on Wednesday, police said. 

The man had been handed a total prison sentence of 26 months and a fine of 750 euros or an unspecified crime.

A video has surfaced showing a woman jumping from the window of her mezzanine apartment in the port city of Patra to escape her violent partner, who was beating and swearing at her.

In the video, the woman can be heard screaming as her partner assaulted her.

Police are seeking a suspect who robbed a supermarket of an undisclosed amount of money in Aigaleo, western Athens, late Thursday.

According to the police, the man entered the supermarket around 10.30 p.m. armed with his face covered. He threatened an employee, emptied the cash register, and fired two shots in the air before taking off.

A 34-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday night for attempting to rob a woman in the northern Athenian suburb of Psychiko, police said.

The victim was about to enter a car when the unknown man approached her and pulled a gun, asking her to hand over personal items and cash. The victim managed to escape and the suspect fled.

Authorities in the southern Nea Smyrni district in Attica apprehended two 16-year-olds riding a stolen motorcycle on Wednesday. 

Despite attempts to evade arrest by speeding and running red lights, police subdued the two boys. One minor was found with a small amount of cannabis. 

A man wearing a mask help up a bank branch in the Athenian suburb of Holargos on Wednesday morning, police said. 

The suspect entered the bank located on 25th March Street shortly after 9.30 a.m. He pulled out a gun, forced employees to hand over an unknown amount of cash, and fled. 

Police said it is searching for the suspect.

Police officers opened fire during a car chase in northern Athens, as they attempted to stop a vehicle and arrest the driver.

A video published on Thursday shows at least seven policers officers trying to stop a vehicle while on foot. They had earlier signaled the driver to stop the vehicle for police check, but he fled crashing into a police motorcycle before fleeing.

A 67-year-old woman in the town of Iraklio, Crete, prevented a robbery in her convenience store by using a rolling pin to scare off the suspect.

The would-be robber, who remains at large, entered her store on Kalokairinos Avenue holding a long knife in his hands and tried to remove the money from the cash register.

A 20-year-old foreign national was arrested in Thessaloniki in the early hours of Sunday for migrant smuggling. 

During routine police checks on the Thessaloniki National Road, a vehicle, driven by the accused, sped excessively in an attempt to evade inspection breaking toll barriers at three toll booths.

Members of a Corinthian family that lived in an underground hovel with a 30-meter-long tunnel were found to have stashed weapons in the structure, police said on Friday.