CRIME

Forty-seven wild animals found poisoned in Evros
NEWS

A record number of animals, most of them wild, were found dead in the northeastern border region of Evros, a local environmental group said on Tuesday, adding that their death was the result of poisoned baits.


Far-right MP detained for attacking fellow lawmaker
POLITICS

Konstantinos Floros, independent lawmaker – formerly with far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party – was detained on Wednesday following a physical attack against another lawmaker in Parliament, during a debate over a defamation lawsuit. 


Inner workings of hooligans revealed
NEWS

The case file put together by the police Sub-Division for the Prevention of Sports Violence against the participants in the incidents that led to the death of 31-year-old policeman Giorgos Lyngeridis outside a volleyball stadium in Athens last December has shed light on the way the Olympiakos club hooligans orchestrated the attack, the internal hierarchy of Gate 7 organized fans and their relationship with the management of the team.


Racist violence surges in Greece, report finds
NEWS

Attacks against migrants, refugees and LGBT people in Greece surged to their highest level in nearly a decade last year, a report by the Athens-based Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) has found.

67 hooligans charged with 28 offences
NEWS

A prosecutor has charged 67 Olympiakos club hooligans, arrested on Monday for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis, with 28 charges, including 12 felonies.

Suspended sentence for police officer for migrant smuggling
NEWS

A three-member Criminal Appeal Court of Thessaloniki convicted on Tuesday a police officer to seven years and eight months in prison for his involvement in the illegal smuggling of migrants through Thessaloniki’s international airport.



Hooligans arrested over officer killing
NEWS

In the largest ever operation against fan violence in the country, Attica police proceeded with a barrage of arrests on Monday of Olympiakos club hooligans for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis and in at least 14 more cases.