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Prison staff slammed Minister calls for investigation as governor, guards suspended Following Sunday's daring escape of two convicts from Athens' Korydallos prison on board a hijacked helicopter, Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras suspended yesterday the prison governor and three guards on duty and ordered an investigation into the incident.

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DNA tests to give clues in boy’s death

Police in Veria investigating the disappearance of 11-year-old Alex Meshivili yesterday started...

Focus turns to environment

Bids to save endangered sea turtles and to encourage greater use of public transport...

Answers near on Tsalikidis

A four-month investigation into the death of Costas Tsalikidis, a Vodafone software engineer who may have been linked...

University standoff intensifies

University teaching staff and students are stepping up their campaign against government plans to introduce non-state universities...

Progress on trafficking but more still needed

The US State Department has taken Greece off its watch list of countries not doing enough to tackle human trafficking...

IN BRIEF

ND says it has no official record of 2003 bid to head to ICJ with Ankara : Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos said yesterday...

PM to meet Papandreou tomorrow : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is due to meet with PASOK leader...

Strike threat : The Federation of Civil Aviation Authority Unions (OSYPA) threatened...

Salvaging job : A firm will soon begin salvaging the remains of a cargo ship...

Firefighters take off : The firefighting season began officially yesterday...

Street sellers : Migrant street-traders protested in Syntagma Square yesterday...

Pacifier recall : The Consumer General Secretariat said yesterday that parents...

Earthquake aid : Environment Minister Giorgos Souflias said yesterday that residents on the island...


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New Zealand’s governor...
EDITORIAL

The fruits of a bankrupt society Frozen with horror, the Greek public is closely following the news as it unfolds about the alleged involvement of five schoolboys, aged 11 to 14, in the brutal murder of their 11-year-old classmate. It has taken this tragic event to make officials grasp the implications of non-action and indifference to bullying.

COMMENTARY

They’re our children In order to condemn, one must first go to the trouble of pinpointing the facts, presuming one does not want to play the role of a tele-psychiatrist who makes snap diagnoses while the cameras send direct footage from the digging at Veria (where a missing child was supposed to have been buried by schoolmates who allegedly have confessed to killing him).

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