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Outcry over jail conditions Fire at Korydallos kills three inmates; overcrowding, lack of facilities probed The state of Greek jails was thrust into the spotlight again yesterday after three inmates at Korydallos Prison burned to death and another was seriously injured after a fire broke out in their cell.

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Take off delayed for old airport

Five years after the Athens airport moved from Hellenikon, the vast space left behind remains unexploited...

Local authorities prompt gripes

Greece's Ombudsman revealed in an annual report yesterday...

Life term for Lesvos murderer

A court on Samos yesterday handed down a life sentence on a 33-year-old man from Lesvos after finding him guilty of murdering a woman and burning her in his fireplace.

Million-euro heist in Crete

Police launched a manhunt on Crete yesterday after armed robbers held up an armored truck and made off with an estimated 1.25 million euros in one of the biggest heists of its type to take place in Greece.

Drug dealers finding customers on Internet

Drug dealers are abandoning street corners for chat rooms, police said yesterday after arresting a 25-year-old man in Athens for allegedly selling cocaine to teenagers he met on the Internet.

IN BRIEF

Meeting between Papadopoulos and Talat set to happen soon : Nicosia yesterday welcomed a suggestion by Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat...

Five people arrested in Crete in connection with sale of babies : Five people were arrested in Iraklion, Crete, yesterday in connection to alleged cases of baby-selling...

Ministry's electronic files disappear : Files containing details of Greece's cultural agenda for the next two years were wiped off...

Unusual find : Greece's Culture Ministry announced yesterday the discovery in downtown Athens of substantial remains...

EYP denial : The National Intelligence Agency (EYP) does not have a mobile unit that can eavesdrop on phone calls...

Road toll : A total of 102 people were killed on the country's roads in January this year...

Playground death : A 13-year-old boy was killed in a schoolyard in Larissa...

Drug operation : Five people were arrested in Thessaloniki yesterday after allegedly dealing in heroin...

Food faults : The Athens Prefecture said yesterday that it had confiscated some 1,300 kilos of shrimp...


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EDITORIAL

Our woeful jails are a cause for shame It took another tragic incident to make us address the chronic problems of Korydallos Prison. The fact that this institution accommodates an excessive number of inmates has long been acknowledged. But the problem is now spilling across the entire penitentiary system, which will soon be obliged to absorb some 3,660 foreign convicts.

COMMENTARY

A road of no return Seven months still remain before the local elections, so one wonders whether PASOK opposition leader George Papandreou's recent rhetoric will continue at its current level and what reactions it may provoke within Greek society. When he accuses the prime minister of being «in hiding» - even though he duels with him in Parliament twice a month - and when he accuses him of being a «crook,» what choice phrases might he come up with on the eve of the elections?

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