Crimes

Young people are facing an unprecedented wave of violence and sexual abuse driven by war, climate change, hunger, and displacement, the U.N.'s special representative on violence against children has warned.

Police in Iraklio, Crete, are investigating multiple child abuse allegations against a retired physical education teacher dating back to the late 1980s.

Recent highly publicized episodes of violence among schoolchildren have authorities - government officials, teachers, judges, even the Church - scrambling to deal with the problem and keep it from spreading further.

There is much official talk about more severe penalties and sending parents of violent students to prison.

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Criminal defense attorney Apostolos Lytras will be barred from practicing law for the next six months, the Athens Bar Association has decided. The suspension comes in the wake of a domestic violence incident against his wife.

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A 27-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to three years and six months in prison after being arrested for arson by investigative officers of the fire service in Ilia. 

According to the fire service's announcement, the fire occurred on Sunday in a plot of land in Kyllini, Peloponnese. 

After the sentencing, the 27-year-old was taken to Nafplio prison.

Six teenagers from northern Greece were arrested for beating up a 15-year-old and recording the act on their mobile phones. 

The teens are facing charges of causing bodily harm to vulnerable persons and violation of personal data.

A Turkish family is awaiting answers after their restaurant in the Canadian province of Quebec was the target of two arson attacks in just over two weeks.

Pizza Mozza, owned by three brothers of Turkish origin, was first hit on the night of Aug. 31, resulting in minor damage. The second incident on Sept. 2 caused significant damage.

An investigative magistrate in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, ordered on Saturday the jailing of a 46-year-old driver who hit a family of three on Wednesday while driving drunk.

He is expected to be taken to a prison in central Greece.