Ierapetra

A 53-year-old teacher who molested an 8-year-old girl on the island of Crete has been sentenced to 54 years in prison.

The 53-year-old was arrested in February after a report by the girl's parents.

Another 13 cases emerged after that.

The Ierapetra court found him guilty in a total of four cases. He is expected to serve 25 years.

The Port of Heraklion, Crete became a battlefield when hundreds of of angry farmers attacked striking seamen on Friday with flares, setting the ticket offices of ANEK on fire.

Farmers and livestock farmers on Naxos reportedly used fishing boats on Friday in order to transport supplies, such as dairy products, to neighboring islands, following an extended strike by Greece's seamen's union, PNO, which has resulted in no ferry services.

Reports suggested the farmers and livestock farmers would continue supplying islands in the coming days.

In protest at the latest round of pension cuts, a worsening tax status and increased job insecurity, seamen have declared a new 48-hour strike that will keep ships docked until Tuesday.

42 refugees and migrants were rescued off the coast of the town of Ierapetra in Crete, Thursday at midnight. The refugees were stranded in a boat 35km to the north of Ierapetra, located on the northeast side of the island of Crete and the Greek coast managed to save them after an 8-hour operation and bring them to safety.

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A Crete woman returning home after picking up her son from school was shocked by the sight of a nude burglar hiding in her bed and with practically all of the household’s fine cutlery next to him.

Around 700 migrants aboard a freighter that had been drifting in the Aegean Sea for two days began disembarking on the Greek island of Crete on Nov. 27, local officials said.
      
The migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, include "a lot of women and children", said Theodosis Kalantzakis, the mayor of Ierapetra.
      

Officials say a broken-down smuggling ship carrying 700 men, women and children trying to emigrate to Europe has been safely towed to just off the southern Greek island of Crete.

Authorities there are preparing to provide the migrants with temporary shelter.

A Pakistani national died while a 50-year-old Cretan businessman was in critical condition in Ierapetra, in Lasithi, Crete, after allegedly being attacked by a Pakistani man late on Saturday.

Early reports suggested the suspect killed his compatriot in a shop where the latter was working before attacking the entrepreneur with a meat cleaver at a nearby taverna.