{"id":21072,"date":"2026-09-07T05:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/gunmen-on-motorcycle-shoot-man-in-athens-suburb\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:54:45","slug":"gunmen-on-motorcycle-shoot-man-in-athens-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/gunmen-on-motorcycle-shoot-man-in-athens-suburb\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen on Motorcycle Shoot Man in Athens Suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<h3>A man suffered a gunshot wound in the early hours of Monday after two men on a motorcycle opened fire in Patissia, northern Athens.<\/h3>\n<p>The shooting took place shortly before 5 a.m. at the intersection of Vroutou and Themo Anninou streets, when the two men approached the victim and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>The man, described in initial reports as a foreign national, suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. The attackers immediately fled the scene on their motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>An ambulance from Greece\u2019s National Emergency Aid Centre (EKAB) took the injured man to Georgios Gennimatas Hospital, where he received medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers arrived at the scene and collected three shell casings and a bullet from the road as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating the circumstances and motive behind the shooting and are searching for the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"category_container author-information\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<section id=\"authorpage\" class=\"authorpage\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/74a7af42a3ee68b1eb9b880b91e3e713144e269e50db87b04a35501c8e1351f8?s=164&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/74a7af42a3ee68b1eb9b880b91e3e713144e269e50db87b04a35501c8e1351f8?s=328&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-164 photo lazyload\" height=\"164\" width=\"164\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-content\">\n<h5>Kosta Papadopoulos<\/h5>\n<p>Kosta Papadopoulos is an editor at Greek City Times, covering Greek and international news, travel, sport, and entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/09\/07\/gunmen-on-motorcycle-shoot-man-in-athens-suburb\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man suffered a gunshot wound in the early hours of Monday after two men on a motorcycle opened fire in Patissia, northern Athens. The shooting took place shortly before 5 a.m. at the intersection of Vroutou and Themo Anninou streets, when the two men approached the victim and opened fire. The man, described in &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Gunmen on Motorcycle Shoot Man in Athens Suburb\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/gunmen-on-motorcycle-shoot-man-in-athens-suburb\/#more-21072\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gunmen on Motorcycle Shoot Man in Athens Suburb\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shots.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}