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The owner of the dogs who fatally injured a 5-year-old boy in 2016 in Kozani, western Macedonia was convicted of manslaughter on Tuesday.

According to state broadcaster ERT, the owner of the rottweilers was sentenced to four years in prison without suspension or 10 euro bail per day.

The police officer who shot and killed the 17-year-old Roma boy on Saturday night was criminally prosecuted for manslaughter with intent on Monday. 

The 41-year-old police sergeant was supposed to testify before a prosecutor in Thebes on Monday which was postponed until Thursday.

Section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023 bans any activity that “interferes with the use or operation of any key national infrastructure in England & Wales”

The 69-year-old man who was arrested for the murder of his 42-year-old daughter, in the Thessaloniki suburb of Sykies was charged with manslaughter on Wednesday.

The case file was forwarded to the First Instance Prosecutor's Office of Thessaloniki which then initiated the procedure for criminal prosecution. 

An appeals court in Crete has confirmed the conviction of a Norwegian man for the murder of his wife in January 2021.

The man, now aged 50, will continue to serve his life sentence for the murder, which the court unanimously ruled was premeditated and committed in a clear state of mind.

The Prosecutor at the Larissa Court of Appeals filed criminal charges against four former executives at the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) on Monday over the Tempi rail collision that left 57 people dead last February.

The charges have been filed against two former Presidents and Managing Directors, one former Managing Director, and an Executive Board Member of OSE.

The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office informed that it is conducting an investigation into the crime of espionage under Chapter One of the Special Part of the Criminal Code. This was announced today by the SCPO regarding the information about three Bulgarian citizens detained in Great Britain for espionage in favor of Russia.

A 27-year-old delivery worker has been remanded into pretrial custody on charges of manslaughter through grievous bodily harm in the northern port city of Thessaloniki over the death of a man, aged 50, during a physical altercation.

Testifying before an investigating magistrate on Thursday, the suspect said he did not intend to kill the victim, who, he claimed, "started the fight."

A Cyprus court on Friday found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home guilty of manslaughter, saying that the prosecution didn't prove beyond reasonable doubt that the 76-year-old man committed premeditated murder.

A mixed jury court in Thessaloniki on Thursday unanimously found all 12 defendants in a trial over the killing of 19-year-old Alkis Kampanos in the northern port city in February last year guilty of murder.

The jury found seven of the 12 youths guilty of manslaughter with possible intent - lowered from an initial charge of premeditated murder - and five guilty of complicity.