Frenchman rams police car in Greece after security check
A 49-year-old Frenchman is to be deported from Greece after ramming a police car following a security check for suspected Islamic militants returning from Iraq and Syria.
A court in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki issued a 15-month suspended sentence and ordered his summary deportation Monday, records seen by The Associated Press showed.
Police testified the man had been held for questioning for two days after crossing the border from Turkey. He was released without charge but later attacked an unmarked police car. He rammed the vehicle with his car, jumped on the hood, and pushed a nearby female police officer, the court documents said.
Greek authorities frequently question travelers believed to be returning to Europe from Syria, often acting on information from police in other European Union countries
Mason accountant charged with embezzlement
An Athens court of first instance prosecutor has brought charges of embezzlement against the accountant of the Grand Lodge of Greece, the organization of Greek freemasons, in connection with the alleged mismanagement of millions of euros.
According to an investigation, the accountant has been linked to the mismanagement of some 2 million euros in funding, chiefly membership fees, in the period between 2006 and 2015.
Seven indicted for stealing army fuel
A Thessaloniki prosecutor has indicted seven people, including a senior army officer, to stand trial on charges of stealing fuel from a pipeline used by the Greek military and selling it for a profit.
The members of the alleged racket are believed to have stolen nearly 294,762 liters of fuel worth some 300,000 euros.
Evia hospital worker charged with fraud
A civil servant working in the accounts department of a hospital in Halkida on Evia has been charged with siphoning money into an account belonging to a retired hospital worker.
Hospital authorities said that the case file, opened after an internal investigation of both suspects, has been sent to a prosecutor.
Hospital authorities said the clerk transferred sums amounting to more than 160,000 euros.
Armed robbery at home of famous music producer
The home of a well-known music producer in Ano Glyfada, southern Athens, was robbed early Wednesday morning by an undisclosed number of armed men.
The producer said he saw a suspicious looking car parked outside the house and that when he approached it, armed men jumped out and forced him back into his home.
They then tied him and made off with money and jewelry. Police have launched a manhunt for the suspects.
Police break up two gangs
A gang distributing large quantities of contraband cigarettes in Greece has been unraveled, police said Thursday.
According to Attica Police Chief Christos Papazafiris, more than 16 million cigarettes and 4 tons of tobacco were confiscated.
The amount of money in lost tax and levy revenues, he said, amounted to more than 5 million euros.
Two Romanian nationals, aged 39 and 36, have been arrested in Aspropyrgos, while five Greeks, aged 37, 47, 50, 56 and 84, are also facing charges.
Another gang that had carried out more than 100 robberies across Attica was also broken up Thursday.
Police are investigating a suspected link between the latter gang and the attempted murder of a police officer in November 2015 in the region of Avlida on Evia.
Seven people aged between 21 and 41 were arrested during house raids conducted in Athens suburbs Ano Liosia and Acharnes.
Cab drivers arrested on fraud charges
Three taxi drivers, aged 52, 55 and 59, were arrested Tuesday in a police sweep in the area of Petralona and the the KTEL Liosion bus terminal.
The 59-year-old was detained on charges of using counterfeit money, while the 55-year-old is accused of tampering with his taximeter.
The 52-year-old was nabbed for using a fake driver’s license.
All three appeared before an Athens prosecutor.
Man arrested in credit card scam
A 39-year-old Albanian national was arrested in central Athens on Saturday over charges of allegedly using hacked credit card details to make purchases on the Internet.
The suspect was detained at a store while collecting a mobile phone he had purchased.
Authorities estimate the suspect had used 15 credit cards to conduct 13 successful online transactions worth 4,486 euros, as well as 16 transactions that had failed to go through, worth nearly 5,000 euros.
Anarchists detained after breaking into offices of Hellenic-American Union
Police detained 22 people on Monday morning after members of an unknown anarchist group broke into the offices of the Hellenic-American Union at around 8 a.m. and held a banner outside the offices reading "Solidarity against slavery."
A group calling itself "The Solidarity Convention for political detainees, prisoners and persecuted fighters" claimed responsibility for the act with a statement posted on the 'net later in the day.
It said the act had been "in solidarity with the fight of detainees protesting slavery in the jails of the USA."
Police break Thessaloniki bus mugging ring
Police in Thessaloniki on Saturday arrested three suspected members of a mugging racket that operated on city buses, exploiting the cramped conditions during rush hour to snatch wallets and other valuables.
Members of the racket are believed to have carried out 140 muggings in April alone.
Thessaloniki police issued a statement yesterday, calling on commuters not to carry large sums of money with them when traveling on buses, not to put wallets in their back pockets and to keep an eye on their bags.
Riot police attacked in Athens's Exarchia district
Riot police units clashed with a group of around 40 people hurling petrol bombs in the Exarchia district of Athens early on Monday morning.
The standoff began on the corner of Tositsa and Patission streets at 1.30 a.m. and continued until around 4 a.m. and led police to cordon off Patission street.
One 26-year-old was detained.
The clashes followed a string of confrontations in central Athens over the weekend.
Trial of wife killer starts in Kastoria
The trial of a 40-year-old man accused of murdering his wife and burying her body in a field started on Tuesday at a court in Kastoria, northern Greece, with a considerable police presence.
The man admitted to killing 37-year-old Anthi Linardou in January after police found her remains in Velvento, near Kozani.
The man had previously denied knowing what happened to his wife.
He has been in pretrial custody since then in Grevena Prison and was transferred to the Kastoria court on Tuesday under a heavy police escort.
The couple’s three children are staying with their grandmother, Linardou’s mother, in Athens.
Urban terrorists suspected in bank robbery
Counterterrorism officers are taking part in the investigation of an armed robbery at a bank in Malesina, central Greece, on Tuesday, when three suspects took off with 180,000 euros.
Police said the officers had been brought in because of the way the robbery was carried out, leading them to suspect the involvement of Pola Roupa, a fugitive member of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group and partner of convicted militant Nikos Maziotis.
Two women and a man entered the bank, telling employees at gunpoint that they were “expropriating money” as part of their “social intervention,” before escaping in a stolen Toyota Starlet, later found abandoned.
Thessaloniki man detained over hoard of Byzantine-era artifacts
A search by Thessaloniki police on the home of an elderly man in the northern port city’s Meteora neighborhood on Saturday turned up 130 bronze coins dating to the Byzantine period (AD 330 to 1453).
The man, who was not identified, was to face a prosecutor over the weekend on charges of violating laws aimed at protecting ancient artifacts.
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