Murder

Under the terms of the new penal code (Article 110A) passed in parliament by the ruling party recently and which is in effect as of 1 July, the convicted leader of the 17N terrorist group Alexandros Giotopoulos and other prominent members can apply for release from prison under the condition that they wear a prison bracelet.

Dunja Mijatovic said at the opening of an exhibition entitled 'Srebrenica - Mothers' Long Fight for Justice' in Strasbourg on Wednesday that the Council of Europe should mark July 11 as an official remembrance day for the victims of Srebrenica.

An Athens appeals court sentenced a former police officer to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for the murder of his 6-year-old daughter in April, 2017 in the western Athens suburb of Aghia Varvara.
The child's body was found in a dumpster.

UN tribunal chief Carmel Agius told a conference entitled 'Stop Genocide and Holocaust Denial' in Sarajevo on Thursday that denial of genocide is unacceptable and those who do it should be prosecuted.

"We must always respond by strongly condemning those who deny it," Agius said.

"It is time to start a big cultural attack. People who deny genocide must be uncovered," he added.

Divers head to Memi Lake to search for a little girl, one of seven victims in the serial killer case, one day after a third body was recovered from the red lake.

The trial of a suspected serial killer in Cyprus was pushed back for at least another week, as Cypriot police are still trying to gather crucial evidence in the case and the search for two slain victims continues.

One of two inmates who escaped from a prison in Avlona, north of the Greek capital, on Monday night has been arrested in downtown Athens.

Police tracked the unnamed convict to Omonia Square and are still looking for the second.

The Serbian Parliament has voted amendments to the Penal Code to abolish the 30- to 40-year prison sentence and introduce life imprisonment for the worst crimes, Tanjug reported.

The changes to the Balkan country's criminal law were approved with 159 votes in the 250-member assembly. 

74-year-old woman was murdered in Varna, the police press reported.

Criminalists work on investigating a serious criminal offense. The victim is a 74-year-old woman living on the territory of the Third RU.

There is a pre-litigation process which is managed by a prosecutor from the District Prosecutor's Office in the city.

Eighteen years after his crimes were committed, Greece's most notorious criminal, Costas Passaris, was sentenced in absentia to four life terms and a further 71 years in prison for four murders and a slew of other felonies by an appeals court in Athens.

Judges and the jury found him unanimously guilty of four murders, six attempted murders, three robberies and an abduction.