Greek Police

The complete lack of protection and solidarity from those near to Thymios Bougas, and the endless torturous bullying that led him to seek isolation, is something that concerns all of Greek society.

Greek political parties and numerous LGBTQ, human rights, and other organisations at the time of the heinous killing issued statements condemning vigilantism.

Long before his 24 February invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s in his two decades in power made enormous headway in his bid to expand Russian influence in Greece.

According to Greek Police data, between January and August of this year, 208 minors were beaten up and 211 were robbed by members of other gangs.

There is a total of seven extreme-right groups that have been identified in Greek Police probes that are active in Thessaloniki, with a total of about 5,000 members or supporters.

ADAE stresses protection of private life and the right of citizens to defend their rights in the courts if they believe their privacy was unjustly breached.

Especially in periods of crisis and the underfunding of Greek Police, for many years entire neighbourhoods of Athens and Thessaloniki were controlled by criminal groups.

There have been extreme voices demanding legalisation of gun possession or the re-establishment of the death penalty. In a democracy, all views must be heard and when they are wrong they must be rebutted.

Mitsotakis summoned his citizen’s protection minister, MIchalis Chrisohoidis, to ask him to expedite the investigation of journalist Yorgos Karaivaz's murder, that he said has shocked all of Greek society.

The new environment will leave no room for revolutionary exercises fueled by blind coercion but instead will create a new relationship between the citizenry and the state, based on an agreed upon security framework.

After the chaos that prevailed when SYRIZA was in power these stricter measures were necessary and public opinion approves of them.

The only thing certain is that the occupiers used violence. They themselves admitted that they threw a number of objects toward the policemen on the street..

The supporters of violence reached the point of threatening that they will turn every neighbourhood of Athens into another Exarcheia.

One can safely assume that the climate in the days before, during, and after the commemoration of the 8 December killing of teenager Alexandros will be extremely tense.

The updating of the criminal code was necessary but the fast-track effort to pass it into law immediately was not. Indeed it proved harmful.

The investigating magistrate is responsible for coordinating efforts to track down the other culprits and commence criminal proceedings.

From elected officials at the top of the administrative pyramid down to the base there is something clearly rotten in the entire structure of the state.

Greek Police and Fire Service officials have also been charged in the case, as has a 65-year-old man who was responsible for starting the initial fire in Daou Pentelis.

'I do want to condemn this morning’s silly and senseless vandalism at the US Embassy and thank @hellenicpolice for their quick action,' US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt wrote in a tweet.

Footage from CCTV cameras at the site shows two individuals placing a bag containing the bomb and driving away on a motorcycle.

'Panagiotis Lafazanis, a former SYRIZA minister and currently a party leader, has been summoned by State Security, as was done to intimidate leftists and democrats, during the dark days of post-Civil War Greece,' the composer said.

There have been complaints by the fire-stricken in Mati, Attica, that after the assurances of ministers that there will be a full restoration of the area, there has been radio silence.

Former Fire Service deputy chief Andrianos Gourbatsis has sent an open letter to Citizen’s Protection Minister Olga Gerovasili and Deputy Minister Katerina Papakosta requesting that the ministry launch an administrative investigation of the Mati wildfire.

“Citizens feel insecure even in the centre of Athens,” New Democracy said in a statement, which comes on the heels of the death of a 25-year-old university student during a mugging on Philopappos Hill

The tragic death of a young man on Philopappos Hill in Athens, reminds us in the most dramatic manner that without security there can be no liberty

Under the law, only parliament and not the judiciary can probe the criminal responsibility of ministers, who are also granted an exceptionally short statute of limitations, almost always leading to their evading prosecution.