Piraeus court

The Piraeus court complex in southern Attica was evacuated on Tuesday morning after an unknown man called to say there was a bomb in the building.

A team from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit is at the scene to search the premises. 

The 13 crew members of the tourist yacht Persefoni I, arrested in connection with the fire on Hydra island on Friday night, allegedly started by fireworks launched from the yacht, appeared before a prosecutor at the Piraeus court shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday.

A 71-year-old man was arrested in the Drapetsona area near Piraeus after more than 4.5 kilograms of cocaine were found in his possession.

According to the police, officers from the Patra Narcotics Division located the suspect at his residence based on gathered intelligence.

The case of the falsification of financial data by jewelry firm Folli Follie is gradually entering the stage of creditor satisfaction with the confiscation of assets belonging to the Koutsolioutsos family.

In a ruling made public on Tuesday, Greece's Supreme Court upheld a decision by a Piraeus court giving a local man a 15-month suspended prison sentence for killing a neighbor's cat with an air gun and poisoning other cats in his neighborhood.

A 39-year-old Russian national suspected of bitcoin fraud and wanted by three countries on Wednesday lodged an appeal with a Piraeus court for his release or extradition to Russia for humanitarian reasons.

A blockade of the cargo terminal run by China's Cosco at Piraeus by disgruntled port workers was lifted on Saturday after the strike was declared illegal by a Piraeus court following an appeal by the companies who supply the work force to Piraeus Container Terminal.

A Piraeus court judge has ordered the arrest of two Turkish citizens in connection to the Noor 1 drug smuggling case. The men have been accused of financing the attempt to smuggle some 2 tons of heroin into Greece on board the Noor 1 cargo ship in 2014.

A criminal prosecutor probing Wednesday's collision between a water tanker vessel and a fishing boat off the island of Aegina on Thursday told a Piraeus court that further investigation was necessary to determine the causes of the tragedy that left two brothers, aged 62 and 74, dead.

Meanwhile the captain and a crew member of the water tanker were released without charge.

The captain and a crew member of a water-tanker vessel that crashed into a fishing boat, killing the two brothers on board, were charged by a Piraeus court on Thursday with negligent manslaughter.