Menidi

A man was killed and three injured late on Sunday when the car they were traveling in while fleeing the theft of a food delivery worker collided with a bus in Menidi, northern Athens.

According to police, the car was traveling at a high speed when it crashed into an upcoming bus at the junction of Karamanlis and Aghia Triada streets.

A 49-year-old man has allegedly confessed to killing his 81-year-old mother in her home in the district of Menidi, eastern Attica, on Friday night.
The suspect walked into a police station in Nea Philadelphia shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday and reportedly told officers he smothered her with a pillow.

Bomb disposal experts destroyed a "suspicious" shoebox in a controlled explosion outside the town hall of Menidi in northern Attica late on Friday night.

Police said the box contained a shoe, a board, wires, and a piece of cloth.
 

A manhunt was under way on Tuesday for an escaped suspect accused of shooting at police during a post office hold up.

The 27-year-old suspect, an Albanian national, is one of two suspects in the robbery who managed to break out of a holding cell in the police precinct of Menidi, west of Athens. The second man was stopped by police as the pair fled the premises.

Heavy rainfall on Sunday evening caused serious problems in Attica, prompting Traffic Police to close off flooded roads and leading to several calls to the fire service to pump out flooded homes and basements.

Among the roads closed by the authorities were a section of Pireos Street as well as a stretch of the Athens-Corinth national highway.

Local authorities on Wednesday were ringing the alarm bells after a violent incident at a high school in the impoverished northwestern Athens suburb of Menidi on Monday was described as a turf war between rival juvenile gangs.

A 45-year-old man was in the intensive care unit of the Irakleio University Hospital on Crete on Friday after being hit in the chest by a stray bullet during an outdoor event in a village in the area of Acharnon-Asterousion.

Local police were seeking to determine the exact circumstances of the man's injury.

In a joint press conference on Friday, five ministers heralded a comprehensive plan aimed at cracking down on crime in Menidi, northwestern Athens, where an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet last week, and improving the education and social integration of the area's significant Roma population.

A week after an 11-year old boy was fatally shot by a stray bullet during an open-air school party in Menidi, northwestern Athens, Public Order Minister Nikos Toskas said the issues in the area that led to the tragedy will take time to resolve.

A week after an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet in Menidi, northwestern Athens, officials agreed Wednesday on the implementation of long-delayed measures to increase policing and curb widespread crime in the area.