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Top shipping tycoon seized by gunmen

Pericles Panagopoulos, 74, said to be ill

A massive police hunt was under way yesterday after one of the country's most prominent shipping magnates was kidnapped at gunpoint near his home in the affluent coastal suburb of Kavouri.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

ND turns its attention to education

The new education minister, Aris Spiliotopoulos, is due to meet Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis today...

Ties with Turkey ‘static,’ FM says

As Turkish fighter jets violated Greek air space in the Aegean again yesterday, Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis said that efforts to improve relations with neighboring Turkey had stalled...

EU rap over FYROM road

European Union officials yesterday criticized a decision by the prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to name the country's main national highway after the ancient Greek warrior Alexander the Great...

Drugs link in deadly Piraeus street shooting

A 26-year-old man died after being shot three times near a rehabilitation center for drug addicts in Piraeus...

IN BRIEF

Policeman gunned down in Exarchia breathing unaided : The 21-year-old police officer seriously injured in an attack...

PASOK pays for Laliotis slander : PASOK said yesterday that it would foot the 100,000-euro bill faced...

Climber death : An army helicopter yesterday recovered the body of a 60-year-old climber...

Coach chase : A man who stole a tourist coach from Athens and may have planned to drive it to Albania...

Angry lawyers : The Athens Bar Association (ABA) yesterday called the behavior of the police...

Missing fishermen : Port Authority officials in Rafina yesterday scoured the coast for a third day...

Firebomb : Police in the Cretan port of Hania were seeking the perpetrators of a firebomb...


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Spirit of Humanity... An activist cries as a Greek-flagged vessel sails for Gaza...

EDITORIAL

Dangerous lack of security Public safety has become a top priority for this country. The kidnapping of Greek shipping magnate Pericles Panagopoulos at gunpoint in an Athens suburb yesterday morning underscores the alarming lack of security. After all, the incident is only the latest in a long series of deeply disconcerting events. Greece is in great need of a professional and well-organized police force that will dismantle the new terrorist groups, that will free Athens from the fear of anti-establishment youths and which will effectively tackle the new and extremely dangerous forms of crime.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

Cultivating terror The most frightening thing about the shooting of a young police officer by suspected members of an extreme-leftist terrorist group is how predictable the whole thing was. As 21-year-old Diamantis Mantzounis lies in critical condition in the Red Cross Hospital, wounded by bullets in Monday's attack, Greeks are once again witness to the equivocations that have kept public debate tangled up in myths and nonsense for the past 30 years or so.

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