Hellenic Police

Revelations continue by the Greek FBI regarding the criminal activities of the extortion ring, whose dismantling led law enforcement to launch an operation yesterday, Monday, December 16.

The Evros border fence now stretches 76 kilometers, with 400 border guards, electronic surveillance systems, border patrol units, and military outposts ensuring the security of Greece’s land borders, according to Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis.

In a series of coordinated raids on Wednesday, Greek police targeted Turkish mafia members involved in organized crime across Athens and Thessaloniki.

A brutal daylight ambush on Monday in the suburb of Glyfada in southern Athens marked the latest chapter in the violent turf war among Turkish organized crime factions operating in Greece.

Armed assailants, reportedly six in number, attacked three men outside an OPAP Play betting shop on Monday morning.

Shots were fired today (09/12) inside a store in Glyfada, resulting in two fatalities. According to initial reports, there is also one injured person, who has been transferred to the Asclepiio Hospital in Voula.

A state of alert was triggered in the Hellenic Police (ELAS) on Thursday afternoon when a 39-year-old man from Albania called the authorities and confessed that he had murdered his wife the previous Thursday.

According to reports, the man stated that he killed his wife with a hammer and hid her body in the attic of their home in Ampelokipoi.

Two Metro stations will be closed tomorrow, Friday, due to assemblies taking place in the morning and afternoon to mark the 16th anniversary of the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Exarchia.

As stated in the statement of STASY:

By order of the Hellenic Police, on Friday, December 6, 2024

Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chryssochoidis and China's Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong signed a police cooperation agreement Tuesday in Athens, strengthening ties between the two countries on key security issues.

The parliamentary police officer accused of raping his children was sentenced to pretrial detention after his plea.

In a statement, the police officer’s lawyer, Othonas Papadopoulos, stated, among other things: “This case has a long way to go. We will take immediate action to prove the truth. Our first request is to conduct a psychiatric examination of the complainant.

A high-ranking officer in Greece's Narcotics Division, known for driving a luxury Lamborghini, has been arrested after being implicated in a cocaine trafficking scandal.