Car chase

A 33-year-old man from Armenia was arrested in the early hours of Sunday after a police pursuit. 

According to the police, around 4 a.m. officers in the northwestern Athenian area of Fyli attempted to stop a vehicle for a search. The driver, riding in a stolen car, accelerated to escape. 

Two men have been remanded in custody after appearing before an investigating magistrate in Piraeus in relation to the fatal injury earlier this week of a 29-year-old officer of the Dias police motorcycle unit after a road chase.

The two men, aged 17 and 20, have been charged with joining and participating in a criminal organization.

Police have made a second arrest in relation to Monday's deadly car chase in which a policeman lost his life in the western Athenian suburb of Nikaia.

The 29-year-old police officer died after his motorcycle collided with a patrol car during a pursuit of suspected car thieves.

A 29-year-old police officer from the DIAS motorcycle unit was killed during a car chase in Aspropyrgos, western Attica, in the early hours of Monday.

A 41-year-old police officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Roma youth during a weekend altercation with police following a car chase in Viotia is expected to appear before a prosecutor on Thursday.

Two officers of the DIAS motorcycle unit were injured during a car chase in central Athens early Thursday morning. 

Police said a patrol car crew spotted a vehicle moving on the wrong direction on Pipinou Street at around 2:15 in the morning, and signaled the driver to stop, but he sped off. A chase ensued, involving other police forces, including the DIAS team. 

A police officer has sustained serious injuries during a dramatic car chase in western Thessaloniki in northern Greece.

Ljubljana/Trojane – The police attempted to stop a 23-year-old Turkish citizen due to speeding on Saturday evening, but he ignored their orders and sped off. Three police officers sustained minor injuries during a car chase that followed. It transpired that the man was transporting a Turkish migrant.

A van suspected of smuggling migrants in Kozani, northern Greece, crashed during a police chase in the early hours of Friday, with preliminary reports saying that one passenger was killed and 10 injured.

A 15-year-old teenager who jumped into the sea at the port of Perama, western Attica, to avoid being captured by officers looking for two theft suspects was found hidden at the pier.

The incident unfolded shortly after midnight on Wednesday during a police chase, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.