I (Almost) Got Away With It

A pharmacy located in the Sykies district of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, was burglarized in the early hours of Wednesday.

According to police, the culprit broke through brick and concrete walls by digging a tunnel to gain access to the pharmacy and stole an unknown amount of cash.

No suspects have been identified yet, and no arrests have been made.

Police say they have identified three members of an international crime gang who were behind the theft of the contents five safe deposit boxes from an Athens bank in July 2022.

The robbery took place in July 2022 in the Nea Smyrni suburb.

International prosecuting authorities also contributed to the investigation.

At least three people were arrested on Wednesday in a police operation in ilia, a region in the western Peloponnese. 

Within the scope of the investigations carried out by the "earthquake crimes investigation offices" established by the Justice Ministry, the number of arrests of those involved in shoddy and illegal construction methods has increased to 298, of which 104 are contractors.

A 23-year-old man from Thessaloniki was convicted to 18 months in jail on Tuesday for stealing the credit card details of a lawyer to buy 10,250-euro-worth of goods from online shopping sites in 2020.

A man is threatening to jump from the roof of the courthouse in Karditsa in central Greece.

Police have cordoned off the area while a trained negotiator is trying to convince the man to come down.

The man's motivation is not yet understood.

No more information is available at this point.

The body of a 31-year-old man was found under the bridge of Racho the monument of Racho the Blacksmith in Gabrovo.

The police were alerted at around 8 o'clock this morning by people passing by. An on-site inspection was carried out, video surveillance cameras in the area are also being reviewed.

Police in Thessaloniki have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of the attempted rape of a 19-year-old woman, who is being treated in a hospital in the city.

On Friday evening, the woman told police that in the early hours of the same day, she was approached by the suspect in the Toumba area, who attempted to rape her and stole her backpack.

A police officer of the DIAS motorcycle unit was shot in the abdomen while chasing a thief in western Attica but avoided serious injury because he wore a bulletproof vest. 

The incident occurred on Wednesday night in the industrial area of Aspropyrgos where officers had been called to locate the man who robbed a pedestrian.

An armored car guard was robbed at gunpoint on Wednesday morning while he was loading cash in an ATM located at the entrance of a supermarket in the district of Sepolia, central Athens.

The three suspects confronted the guard, removed the cash boxes and fled with an undisclosed amount, police said. The incident took place shortly after 11 a.m.