Athens Appeals Court

Former prosecutor Ioannis Diotis, who became widely known for his role in the arrest of the 17 November protests, has died in Kythnos. Hs leading role in the interrogation of Savvas Xiras was crucial.

Georgia Adilini, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court, has called for an investigation into organised crime activities on Mykonos, other Cyclades islands, and even in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adelini instructed the Prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Court to explore the possibility of appealing the court's decision on the Mati wildfire case.

On July 13, 2018, a wildfire in Mati, a village on the east coast of the Attica region, took 104 lives and injured many. 

Police have arrested a Turkish citizen, an ethnic Kurd, wanted for membership in a terrorist organization.

The 41-year-old had gone to the police's aliens' division in Athens to renew his asylum request papers; when the officer entered his name an INTERPOL Red Notice appeared, asking for his arrest.

A senior Golden Dawn member convicted over the 2013 murder of leftist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, among other crimes, was led away in handcuffs from Athens Appeals Court after hurling insults at Fyssas' mother.

Yiannis Lagos, a member of the European Parliament and among the party's highest cadres, said Magda Fyssa was a "professional" and told her to "f**k off."

Police radios used by units guarding sensitive locations in Athens, such as the US Embassy, the Athens Appeals Court and the residence of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Maximos Mansion, are faulty or don't work at all, and this situation is raising security concerns, according to senior Greek Police (ELAS) officials who spoke to Kathimerini.

The Municipality of Acharnes in eastern Attica has begun procedures to evict Greek police from a piece of land in the area of Amygdaleza which currently hosts police academy facilities and a detention center for undocumented migrants.

An Athens court on Tuesday turned down a fresh request for the extradition of one of nine men arrested in November on suspicion of belonging to a Turkish far-left militant group.

The long-running trial of MPs and members of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party on Thursday shifted to the next stage of examining hundreds of documents following the completion of testimonies delivered by more than 130 witnesses for the prosecution.

After 224 sessions since the launch of the trial in April 2015, the party's leadership has yet to appear in court.

An Athens Appeals Court prosecutor on Wednesday reopened the case of the alleged suicide of a mobile telephone company executive implicated in a major wiretapping scandal in the wake of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.