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Last September, just 30 asylum seekers made the 190-nautical-mile journey from Tobruk in Libya to the Greek island of Gavdos and Crete’s southern coast just above it; that number swelled to 397 in December and has passed 1,100 in the first couple of months of 2024.


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09.03.2024 / 15:10

A request by two prosecutors last year to check whether the 92 people targeted by illegal spyware Predator had also been surveilled by the country’s intelligence service, EYP, remains pending four months after it was submitted to the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE.


09.03.2024 / 09:34

Investigators have linked members of a racket arrested on Tuesday for fuel smuggling and adulteration, to underworld businessmen with criminal histories for related offenses.


06.03.2024 / 09:15

The police and fire department decided to remove the damaged wagons and use diggers to clear the site of the railway accident, the country’s deadliest, in Tempe, central Greece, in February 2023, according to statements given at the end of January 2024 to the Larissa Magistrate’s Court by the digging machine operators and what was stated, on condition of anonymity, to Kathimerini by officials with knowledge of the matter. 


05.03.2024 / 19:55

In a move aimed, according to sources, at bolstering Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) in its fight against organized crime, the government on Tuesday replaced the agency’s deputy chief, Lieutenant-General Giorgos Kellis, with Antonis Tzitzis, a former officer of the Greek Police (ELAS).



03.03.2024 / 20:00

Citizen Protection Ministry officials are not ruling out the possibility that two military pyrotechnicians who were arrested last week for their involvement in the case of a parcel-bomb that was sent to the president of the Thessaloniki Appeals Court on February 12 may be linked to other terrorist plots, such as the attempted attack on the police riot unit headquarters in Athens last December. 


28.02.2024 / 10:29

Even though a year has gone by since the February 28, 2023 rail disaster near Larissa at Tempe, central Greece – which claimed the lives of 57 people, most of them young university students returning from a long weekend break – judicial authorities appear to have widened the scope of inquiries in recent weeks, adding more names to their list of suspects.


27.02.2024 / 20:45

The police’s Anti-Terrorism Division launched raids in different parts of Athens on Tuesday that were most likely linked to a parcel bomb that was sent to the prosecutor of the Appeal Court of Thessaloniki earlier in the month.


27.02.2024 / 13:15

The police’s Anti-Terrorism Division launched a crackdown on Tuesday against urban guerrilla groups operating in different parts of the Greek capital, including, reportedly, from two prisons.


26.02.2024 / 09:29

A year after the deadly train crash near the Vale of Tempe, which left 57 dead, it is clear that the relatives of the victims and survivors will wait a long time to see justice done.


22.02.2024 / 11:07

The Hellenic Coast Guard has been placed on alert due to a dramatic spike in migrant movements from Turkey to Greece’s eastern Aegean islands in recent days. Such was the concern that a decision was made to dispatch the chief of the coast guard, Giorgos Alexandrakis, to Mytilene on Lesvos to closely coordinate the response […]