Traffic police in the Greater Athens region stopped tens of thousands of motorists over the past three days for spot checks, fined more than 4,000 for a series of traffic violations and arrested 16, police said Sunday.
A Greek Air Force colonel held since Thursday for allegedly selling NATO military secrets to China was under surveillance for a year and a half before his arrest, officials told Kathimerini.
Authorities on Crete said Sunday that another 27 migrants have reached the island’s southern shores after making the long and dangerous journey from north Africa.
Two men have been arrested in the town of Volos on suspicion of stealing cash and jewellery from an elderly woman using the increasingly common wiring fault scam, police said on Sunday.employees.
Farmers protesting high production costs will hold a rally outside Parliament in central Athens on Friday with their tractors and remain on the spot overnight, a protest organizer said.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday pledged “full transparency” in the ongoing investigation into the death of 15 migrants during a collision between their inflatable boat and a Coast Guard vessel in the Aegean Sea.
A group of 43 migrants, mostly minors, was rescued Friday from a small boat south of Crete, the Coast Guard said.
A Moroccan survivor of the deadly collision off Chios that killed 15 people has been ordered remanded in pre-trial custody on suspicion of steering the inflatable boat that was clandestinely ferrying some 40 Afghan migrants from the Turkish coast to Greece.
Two men believed to be migrants have been found dead overnight near the town of Didymoteicho in the northeastern border region of Evros, reports said Sunday.
The investigation detailed by Kathimerini reveals how authorities uncovered a 54-year-old Air Force colonel accused of leaking classified military data to China.