Neos Kosmos, Athens

The story of two Swedes, a man and a woman, who were arrested yesterday, Wednesday (10/9), in Neos Kosmos for the murder of a 27-year-old woman, also Swedish, that took place in mid-September in Sweden, is shocking.

Back for another one of those block-rockin' parties, Onassis Stegi (107 Syngrou) will host its annual seasonal neighborhood bash in Neos Kosmos. The event opens with a kids' program by Bobos Arts Festival, followed by performances from DJ Breakin Moves, rapper Ladele and Australian producer Haai and more.

A car crashed into a school bus in the Athens suburb of Neos Kosmos on Wednesday morning, resulting in minor injuries to a chaperone.

At the time of the accident, which occurred at the intersection of Evdoxou and Angylis streets, there was only one minor child on the school bus. The child was not injured.

Athens Nomad Fest (athensnomadfest.com), the city's first festival for digital nomads, runs this weekend at Panteion University (136 Syngrou Avenue). Designed to unite remote workers and entrepreneurs, the event features keynote talks, networking dinners, wellness sessions and live DJ sets.

I've been looking at them for months; but perhaps they've been this way for years, showing different wrong times. I'm talking about the two big round clocks at the tram's Syngrou-Fix stop on Kallirois Street in central Athens.

Two bombing incidents this year at a gas station in Piraeus on March 8 and a liquor store in Kallithea on March 11, as well as a shootout with Kalashnikovs on Syngrou Avenue on March 23, were just the latest incidents in the ongoing turf war between rival gangs despite the recent police crackdown on the so-called Greek mafia.

The recent police operations in the wake of last week's mob-style killing in the Athens suburb of Neos Kosmos reveal that criminal networks thrive on specific sources of illegal wealth, including the smuggling of fuels and tobacco. 

The mafia prospers in areas where the state has consistently failed to establish control, despite the significant cost to the public treasury.

An Athens prosecutor indicted two ethnic Greeks from countries of the former Soviet Union, aged 39 and 21, who were arrested in connection with the murders of two prominent members of the so-called Greek Mafia. They were charged with nine felonies and seven misdemeanors. A third person, who is allegedly connected to one of the suspects, was only charged with misdemeanors.

Three suspects arrested in connection with the assassinations of two prominent members of the so-called Greek Mafia were led before a public prosecutor on Thursday.

The three were allegedly involved in the murder of Yiannis Skaftouros in May 2022 in Dervenochoria and Vassilis Roubetis in a late-night ambush in the Korydallos district of Athens, in June 2023.

Firefighters have found the body of an elderly man after extinguishing an apartment fire in Athens' Neos Kosmos suburb.

The fire service stated that the blaze broke out shortly after 10 a.m. in a bedroom in the apartment. 

Firefighters located the deceased 88-year-old man at the entrance to the apartment.

Seven firefighters and two fire engines attended the scene.