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A police officer was arrested on Thursday afternoon in Attica for pimping Ukrainian and Russian women following a months-long investigation by the internal affairs division.

A prosecutor's recommendations for the chief suspect in the case of an Athens girl, who was sexually abused and forced into prostitution when she was 12 years old, spurred tension in Parliament on Thursday, as a protest rally was planned to take place in the city center.

Police arrested three people in different parts of Athens on Thursday on suspicion of involvement in a child prostitution ring.

A 31-year-old woman and two men, aged 33 and 55, are suspected of pimping out children under the age of 15 and recording child sex abuse material, among other offenses.

The trial of 28 defendants linked to the pimping of a 12-year-old Athens girl began on Monday behind closed doors. 

A former soccer referee was remanded in custody on Thursday over his link to the case of the sexual abuse and pimping of a 12-year-old girl from the Athens district of Kolonos. 

An Athens court on Tuesday rejected a request for release from pretrial custody of the mother of a 12-year-old victim of rape and sexual exploitation.

The decision was unanimous, with the judges on the Council of Misdemeanors ruling that the 37-year-old woman is facing serious charges, including of profiting from the pimping of her daughter and other related offenses.

Four people - two men and two women - were to face a prosecutor on Lefkada on Friday on charges of people trafficking and rape after a 37-year-old woman claimed to have been detained against her will at a house on the Ionian island and forced to become a sex worker.

Procuring Russian S-400 defense systems is a matter of national security for Turkey, the ruling party spokesman said on April 12.

Greece is at serious risk of becoming a lot like Ukraine in terms of seeing its media and public affairs slipping into the hands of a small group of new oligarchs who will make the maligned old guard seem like nice guys.

A French court on June 12 acquitted former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of pimping charges, drawing a line under a series of legal woes over his sexual escapades.