Manchester United defender Harry Maguire is due to go on trial in Greece on Tuesday on assault charges following his arrest after a brawl last week on the island of Mykonos.
Concern is growing over a significant number of accidents, some of them fatal, involving all-terrain vehicles (ATV), or quad bikes, a popular mode of transport among tourists on the islands, amid lax enforcement of rules relating to their rental.
Thirteen people who had been detained on Sunday morning during a police raid in a burned-out squatted centre in Thessaloniki were released pending trial on Monday.
Ahead of the scheduled reopening of Greek schools on September 7, the Greek Police’s cyber crimes division has launched an investigation into certain groups on Facebook that have been exhorting parents and children to defy authorities’ demands for the mandatory use of face masks by pupils to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Police on Mykonos raided a rented villa in the area of Ftelia where a private party was under way in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Two men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after they threw flyers and red paint outside the Turkish embassy in central Athens.
The webpage of the state-run Business Program for the Development of Human Resources (epanad.gov.gr) was targeted by Turkish hackers on Wednesday.
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras on Wednesday posted a message on his Twitter account, clarifying that an email received by a large number of citizens including his name in connection to an ostensible financing scheme is fraudulent.
A violent brawl that broke out in Hersonissos, northern Crete, between two groups of French tourists on Monday had followed an argument over two cans of an energy drink, according to local news website www.cretalive.gr.
Police in Hersonissos, northern Crete, on Monday arrested 12 foreign nationals who face charges of drugs possession and causing bodily harm following a brawl in the tourist resort which resulted in the injury of one of the men.
Firemen pulled the charred remains of an elderly couple out of an apartment in the downtown Athens neighborhood of Kypseli, where a fire broke out on Monday afternoon.
Police on Monday raided a squat in Thessaloniki believed to have been used by its anarchist occupants to prepare attacks against police officers and political targets.
Police officers raided a squat in central Thessaloniki on Monday morning known locally as Terra Incognita, according to police sources.
The woman who was attacked with acid outside her workplace in southern Athens three months ago was released from hospital on Thursday.
The arrests of foreign nationals at regional airports in western Greece and on the Ionian islands with forged or stolen travel documents have increased drastically since Greece opened its borders 35 days ago at the end of the lockdown.
A foreign national was arrested in Greece on Wednesday afternoon after he was found with thousands of pills of an unspecified drug which he had smuggled into the country from Turkey.
Dozens of foreign nationals trying to travel with forged documents have been arrested by police conducting passport checks at Kalamata Airport in southern Greece.
Police on Tuesday were investigating an ax attack on a woman by a man late Monday evening in the Athens district of Kallithea.
Unknown assailants set fire to two ATMs at the Piraeus Bank branch in Pefki, northern Athens, early on Tuesday morning.
The Panhellenic Association of Physiotherapists (PSF) has called for immediate action to combat the phenomenon of pseudo-doctors and bogus physiotherapists in response to reports that the spread of the coronavirus on the island of Poros began from the practice set up by one such “physiotherapist.”