Nigrita
Ex-prison warden found guilty of spying on colleagues
A former prison warden has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for coercing an inmate to wiretap the correctional facility's phone line, enabling him to eavesdrop on his colleagues.
The incident took place at Nigrita Prison near Serres, northern Greece, in 2017, during the tenure of the convicted official as head of the correctional institution.
Elderly man detained after shooting three minors
A 70-year-old man in Halkidiki in northern Greece has been placed in temporary custody after appearing before an investigative magistrate on Monday accused of shooting and injuring three minors with a shotgun after a verbal altercation in the region of Olympiada.
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Robbers with suspected terrorist links remanded
Two anarchists arrested last Wednesday following a thwarted heist on a money delivery van outside Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital were remanded in custody on Tuesday after defending themselves before an investigating magistrate.
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Jailbreaker and alleged accomplices arrested for armed robbery in northern Greece
Four people were arrested on Thursday, among which a man who had escaped from a prison in the Greek town of Serres in central Macedonia in January this year, after allegedly committing an armed robbery in another town, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA.
Ministry launching Greek language classes for foreign prisoners
The Justice Ministry on Friday said it is working with the Center for the Greek Language to provide lessons to foreign inmates at the country's prisons.
The program will initially be launched at the prisons of Thessaloniki, Nigrita and Grevena, all in northern Greece. It will also include seminars to train Greek or Greek-speaking inmates to teach the language to fellow prisoners.
Guards convicted of torturing prison inmate who later died
A Thessaloniki court on Thursday handed jail terms of between five and seven years to 12 correctional officers for causing grievous bodily harm in March 2014 to Albanian inmate Ilie Kareli at Nigrita Prison in northern Greece where he later died.
Patriarch supports ancient site of Philippoi’s cultural heritage bid
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived at Kavala on Friday for a three-day official visit to Serres and Nigrita, northern Greece.
Judges insist Nigrita guards must be tried over inmates' death
Thirteen correctional officers are to stand trial over the death of Albanian inmate Ilie Kareli in Nigrita Prison last March after a judicial council in Serres, northern Greece, rejected their appeal against their indictment.
The indictment was issued last October after a judicial investigation found that the inmate had been tortured.
Release for 2 more guards detained after Kareli's death
Two more guards from Nigrita Prison who had yet to face a prosecutor in connection to the deadly torture of inmate Ilie Kareli were released on Tuesday after giving their depositions.
One of the two was bailed, the other was granted unconditional release.
Four Nigrita prison guards bailed, protests held in Albania
An Albanian man holds a placard that reads 'Kudret Kume was beaten by Greek police' during a protest in front of the Albanian Interior Ministry in Tirana, Albania, Monday.
Four guards from Nigrita Prison in northern Greece were bailed Monday after giving depositions in connection to the torture of Albanian inmate Ilie Kareli aka Kudret Kume who later died.