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05.03.2024 / 18:21

The Athens prosecutor’s office has ordered an investigation into SYRIZA head Stefanos Kasselakis’ shipping business interests in the United States after documents revealed that he has owned a company abroad.


03.03.2024 / 10:22

Hundreds of organized crime trials have been left pending due to an abstention of lawyers that lasted for two years owing to their opposition to a provision in the Penal Code passed in 2020. 


29.02.2024 / 08:16

The judge handling the investigations into the train collision in late February last year in Tempe, central Greece, which claimed the lives of 57 people, is to launch additional inquiries regarding allegations and the unanswered questions raised by the relatives of the victims and their technical adviser.


21.02.2024 / 09:48

A prosecutor on Tuesday asked for guilty verdicts for nine of the 21 defendants in the trial regarding the response to the deadly fire that ripped through the East Attica town of Mati in July 2018, claiming 104 lives. 


15.02.2024 / 17:40

The Athens Prosecutor’s Office launched an ex officio investigation on Thursday into a server outage at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on Monday, which prevented students from completing online examinations.


14.02.2024 / 02:16

The poor performance of the Greek judicial system in administering justice and all that entails for citizens’ rights, the economy and investments are, experts stress, directly related to its incomplete digitalization, lagging behind the EU and many other countries.


09.02.2024 / 20:50

The long overdue reforms to the country’s judicial system are expected to be voted on by the end of March as the government seeks to reverse decades of pathologies and problems that consigned Greece to 146th place in the relevant global index in terms of justice delays. 


29.01.2024 / 19:04

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the head of the Athens prosecutor’s office to investigate the case of a dog that appears to have been beaten to death with a metal rod in West Attica.


26.01.2024 / 09:26

The prosecutor in the trial of 35-year-old Roula Pispirigou from the western port city of Patra who stands accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter Georgina, has recommended she be found guilty of murder, and for an earlier failed attempt.


15.01.2024 / 07:20

Thousands of legal cases will soon be handled outside of courtrooms and be resolved by lawyers and some by notaries, according to a Justice Ministry bill aiming to decongest Greece’s judicial system.



19.12.2023 / 21:39

If a few days ago, when petrol bombs and naval flares were raining down on people during clashes between police and hooligans in Renti, a bystander or one of the hundreds of unsuspecting fans who had gone to the stadium to watch a match had been injured, then many would have protested – and rightly so – about the responsibilities of the police who did not prevent the tragic event, or their responsibility for not arresting the culprits in time.



05.12.2023 / 07:46

In an effort to ensure the effective implementation of its announced reforms in the field of criminal justice – particularly the regulation stating that penalties exceeding three years, for all offenses, will now be served – the government is working on a plan to establish new prisons nationwide.