Underground culture

Greek police said Tuesday they had unraveled a criminal gang that made false insurance policies for people around the country that enabled them to avoid paying social insurance contributions to the state.
The gang had reportedly been active since at least 2001 and police said the scams, which involved fake hirings by fake companies, cost the Greek state more than 15.5 million euros.

Police say they have arrested 18 members of a gang that committed multiple robberies, including some violent ones, in Athens.

The 18, all foreigners, were arrested Thursday.

Police say the gang included at least 20 more individuals.

Another drug racket operating in central Athens was unraveled by police Thursday.

Four foreign nationals - three Albanians and a Tunisian - aged between 27 and 63, were arrested in the neighborhood of Aghios Panteleimonas on charges of running a criminal gang and drug dealing.

Police said the gang was also active in the neighborhoods of Amerikis Square and Victoria.

Greek Parliament on Thursday voted to open supervised drug consumption sites where people can use drugs with sterile injection equipment under the supervision of trained staff.
The legislation, presented by the health ministry, was voted with 229 votes in favour, 32 against and one "present".

A criminal gang of four Georgian citizens has terrorized an Istanbul neighborhood by tracking down and assaulting victims with drilling bits.

At least 10 Georgian members of a gang that burgled homes, mainly in Athens's affluent northern suburbs, were arrested on Tuesday during police raids of their hideouts across Attica.

So far the gang has been linked to more than 100 burglaries and robberies in the wider Attica area.

Albanian crime gangs are assuming a leading role in the UK's cocaine trade, the London Times reported on Thursday, citing new data from the police's National Crime Agency - which reported on this phenomenon last year.

A table listing the 4,600 known crime gangs on the police's radar showed Albanians "overtaking" Romanians for the first time in 2017.

A leading Paris gallery has thrown prudishness to the winds by announcing it will welcome nudist visitors in May.

THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH to play Sofia for the first time on 17th of March at club Live&Loud. Tickets go on sale via Epaygo priced 20 bgn & 25 bgn on the day of the show.

The Underground Youth has been around since 2008, delivering a discography of 8 LP albums, couple of EPs, compilations and live session recordings with FuzzClub being their label after the DIY period. 

Paris, whose bohemian culture attracted some of the world's finest painters at the turn of the 20th century, is opening its doors to a new wave of talent, driven its way this time by war and poverty.