Urban decay

The union representing notaries in Athens, Piraeus, the Aegean and Dodecanese islands on Friday protested against a recent spate of initiatives by activists opposing foreclosures on homes, noting that the auctions in question related to people owing millions of euros.

Doctors in the western port city of Patra on Thursday were trying to save a man who was stabbed during a brawl at a migrant squat in a former factory.

The brawl reportedly broke out at around 9.30 a.m. between rival migrant groups in the former AVEX factory at Patra port, where hundreds of undocumented migrants are squatting in the hopes of slipping onto a ferryboat to Italy.

t least 28 prisoners died and 3 were injured during an uprising in a Mexico prison. The altercations between different groups started in the center for social rehabilitation in the morning, reported by Reuters.

The reason for the conflicts is the constant struggle for power and competition between rival gangs inside the prison.

Police said on Monday that a Roma gang it began unraveling in November had made more than 50 million euros from its criminal activities.

According to reports, a police raid on a house last Friday in Halandri, northern Athens, yielded more than 700 kilos worth of jewelry, precious stones and gold items worth more than half a million euros. Officers also found 105,000 euros in cash.

A group of masked assailants Thursday smashed the windows of an office building in the southern Athens neighborhood of Kallithea.

The office is being used by a company that expressed interest in taking part in the electronic auction of homes foreclosed upon due to their original residents being unable to make payments.

The Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office and the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime on 12h of june identified a supermodern greenhouse for growing marijuana in an apartment in the coastal city of Burgas, reported BNT.

Six people have been arrested on allegations of organized crime group for drug production and distribution.

Leonidas Papadopoulos is a doctor, his brother Ilias an economist, and once a week they take a break from ordinary life to fight the government.

They go to court every Wednesday, the day homeowners in default on mortgages lose their properties at auctions - the final step of foreclosure in a country where the government and its citizens are overwhelmed by debt.

According to UN’s data, the average murder rate in El Salvador is 10 murders per day. This makes the country one of the world’s most violent ones.

What is unbelievable though, is that on Wednesday there was no murdered recorded by the police, something that even they can not explain!

Dynamic urban changes have been central to Turkey's modern political history. From the Kemalist nation-building project, to the dawn of multi-party democracy in the 1950s, to violence between left and right in the 1970s, to the rise of Islamism after the 1980 coup d'état, cities have always been the country's political bellwether.

At least seven police officers, including a high-ranking retired one, from precincts around the country have been implicated in crime rings run by members of the Roma community.

Two of the rings, behind robberies that netted at least 1 million euros, were smashed in a wide-scale operation last week.