YIANNIS PAPADOPOULOS

‘Call 100. We don’t make arrests’

“I had hoped Georgia would be the last,” says Maria Poutou. Her 43-year-old sister called their mother asking for help one night last December, after a beating from her 71-year-old partner that left her with a fractured leg.

Protocols not followed in woman’s murder

The commander of the Agioi Anargyroi Police Department in northern Athens that received a complaint by a woman who was being threatened by her former partner and subsequently murdered on Monday night, and the 100 emergency dispatch operator whom she called asking for a police escort to her home were both suspended on Wednesday.

31.03.2024 / 18:40

Material taken from Tempe crash site to be analyzed

The investigation of special appellate investigator Sotiris Baikamis into the deadly collision between a freight and a passenger train at Tempe in central Greece on February 28, 2023 is continuing with the appointment of a new expert.

24.03.2024 / 09:23

A decades-old unresolved bank heist

On December 19, 1992, robbers drilled holes in the basement wall of what was then an Ergasias Bank branch in central Athens, opened hundreds of safes and removed valuables, cash and bonds worth billions of drachmas – millions of euros today.

14.03.2024 / 19:19

Non-traditional dwellings proliferate on Sifnos

Nestled amidst holiday homes and tourist accommodations stands an architectural gem – a traditional “themonia,” as the locals affectionately call it. This quaint farmhouse, crafted from whitewashed stone, stands in accordance with the materials available in the region.

28.02.2024 / 21:36

Sons of Opy Zouni root out fakes attributed to their artist mom

Yannis Zounis had learned to identify his mother’s works. He didn’t only have a detailed photographic archive she had left him and his brother to consult.

01.02.2024 / 12:43

Defenseless against the masters of the fake

He harbored no illusions. It was only the low price of the artwork – a mere 1,500 euros, when its value should have been multiple times higher – that made him suspect it was of “doubtful origin.” The painting was attributed to a Greek artist and was supposed to have been […]

30.01.2024 / 21:12

Measuring the height of Mt Olympus, a century later

A group of climbers, research geologists and topography specialists have recalculated the altitude of Mt Olympus, Greece’s highest mountain, with modern methods, a century after the Swiss surveyor and alpinist Marcel Kurz in 1921.

23.01.2024 / 21:15

The Moncalvo mystery: Italian appraiser bought the work for 600 euros

Il Moncalvo’s work “St Diego de Alcala in Ecstasy with the Holy Trinity and the Symbols of Passion,” a pen and sepia wash drawing, was the only artwork never recovered after the what was described as the “theft of the century” at the National Gallery in Athens in January 2012.

04.12.2023 / 08:29

The notion of ‘Britishness’ and the Parthenon Sculptures

It was no ordinary breakfast gathering. In June 1808, Sir Anthony Carlisle, a surgeon and leading member of London’s elite, had prepared a surprise for his all-male, art-loving toffish guests.

30.11.2023 / 13:54

Sensitive data stolen from Aegean University leaked to dark web

Ηundreds of files containing sensitive data stolen from the University of the Aegean by the cybercriminal group Lockbit earlier this year were published on the dark web on November 27.

07.10.2023 / 18:47

Hacker posed as Greek police to get into EU site

A resident of Portugal, known as a hacker under the handle USDoD (for US Department of Defense), has claimed in an interview that he broke into the websites of a European police training center and NATO’s Cyber Security Center (NCSC), using the hacked emails of a Greek police officer and a military officer, respectively.

30.09.2023 / 14:21