I (Almost) Got Away With It

Police in Athens said on Thursday they found nothing suspicious in a sweep of a private school after receiving reports that two individuals had entered the school's premises holding sharp objects.

Police officers had rushed to Athens College, a co-educational private school in the northern suburb of Psychiko, after the alarm was raised by a school security officer.

Seven suspects who, according to some reports, are members of anti-establishment groups, were arrested on Wednesday in the western port city of Patra and charged with the possession of weapons and explosives.

More specifically, a raid of one of the houses yielded two pistols, 230 grams of explosives and a detonator, while four hydroponic cannabis units were also identified. 

Police in Thessaloniki announced on Monday that they had cracked the case of a robbery that occurred in November 2019 involving the theft of a safe from an apartment in the city center, which, according to the 64-year-old owner, contained money and jewelry worth more than 190,000 euros. 

A court in Athens convicted on Monday a 30-year-old woman to life in prison over the brutal murder of her seven-year-old son in 2017.

Two people stormed an OPAP Play gaming hall in western Thessaloniki on Tuesday night and took 1,000 euros in cash, police said Thursday.

The perpetrators, who appeared around 9.45 p.m., had covered their faces and were holding guns. 

After the robbery they fled on foot.

A 17-year-old boy was attacked with a screwdriver while sitting with a girl of the same age at a bus stop in the district of Egaleo, western Athens, on Wednesday afternoon, police said Thursday.

Three armed men held a jewellery store at gunpoint on Wednesday afternoon in the Athens suburb of Vari, with a nearby onlooker helping the police arrest one of them.

Istanbul police have caught the suspect wanted for 19 years on charges of embezzling $4.5 million and 500,000 pounds by getting his customers to sign blank receipts while working as a manager at a bank.

A well-known patisserie in the western Attica suburb of Peristeri was robbed at gunpoint on Saturday night. According to state broadcaster ERT, the robbery took place at approximately 10.40 p.m. when a man wearing a motorcycle helmet entered the store and managed to take off with 4,000 euros.  

Two men stole 150,000 euros from two elderly women in a village in northern Greece by pretending they were employees sent by power utility PPC to conduct maintenance work, state-run broadcaster ERT reported Saturday.