In a controversial decision, the Supreme Court decided to send Alexandros Giotopoulos back to prison after reversing a decree by a council of judges at the Piraeus Court of Appeal. Source link
The stage that has been temporarily set up for the rehearsals at the Greek National Theater’s Irene Papas Drama School is curved, creating a constant sense of instability – as if everything is about to collapse. Source link
Four waterbombing aircraft were helping a small ground force of firefighters and volunteers battle a wildfire on the island of Syros in the Cyclades Sunday, authorities said. Source link
Police said Sunday they have solved a €100,000 armed robbery that targeted an elderly man in Athens last month and was allegedly masterminded by a relative of the victim. Source link
An Athens taxi driver has been arrested on suspicion of using his vehicle to traffic marijuana, after a police check discovered more than nine kilograms of the drug in the car’s boot. Source link
Two people were arrested overnight Sunday near Greece’s northeastern land border with Turkey for allegedly driving cars crammed with migrants who had entered the country illegally and were seeking to travel on into Europe’s prosperous heartland. Source link
Four people drowned swimming in various parts of Greece within the past 24 hours, the Coast Guard said Sunday, while a fifth body was found in the port of Piraeus but the circumstances of the person’s death were not immediately clear. Source link
Dozens of firefighters assisted by a water-dropping helicopter were battling Sunday to extinguish a new wildfire in the southern Corinthia region. Source link
A planned new summer music and theatre festival in the Zappeion Gardens in central Athens has been cancelled hours before its launch after critics complained that the temporary venue built to host events clashed with its surroundings. Source link
Police are linking a pre-dawn petrol bomb attack in Thessaloniki Sunday with the previous targeting of a former senior prison official who lives close by, state ERT television said. Source link