Nigrita

Eight Romanian soccer fans arrested just after they crossed the border into Greece have been sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment by a court in Serres under fan violence laws.

The period of jail time is mandatory under the new laws and cannot be appealed. The jailed Steaua Bucharest fans can, however, the remainder of their 18-month sentence.

“Can an offender also be a poet? A prisoner thinker, a human being with sensitivities, dreams, fears, worries, like everyone else?

In the Prosecutor the 30-year-old man who yesterday, while carrying out agricultural work, caused a fire in Nigrita Serres

A former prison warden has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for coercing an inmate to wiretap the correctional facility's phone line, enabling him to eavesdrop on his colleagues.

The incident took place at Nigrita Prison near Serres, northern Greece, in 2017, during the tenure of the convicted official as head of the correctional institution.

A 70-year-old man in Halkidiki in northern Greece has been placed in temporary custody after appearing before an investigative magistrate on Monday accused of shooting and injuring three minors with a shotgun after a verbal altercation in the region of Olympiada.

Two anarchists arrested last Wednesday following a thwarted heist on a money delivery van outside Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital were remanded in custody on Tuesday after defending themselves before an investigating magistrate.

Four people were arrested on Thursday, among which a man who had escaped from a prison in the Greek town of Serres in central Macedonia in January this year, after allegedly committing an armed robbery in another town, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA.

The Justice Ministry on Friday said it is working with the Center for the Greek Language to provide lessons to foreign inmates at the country's prisons.

The program will initially be launched at the prisons of Thessaloniki, Nigrita and Grevena, all in northern Greece. It will also include seminars to train Greek or Greek-speaking inmates to teach the language to fellow prisoners.

A Thessaloniki court on Thursday handed jail terms of between five and seven years to 12 correctional officers for causing grievous bodily harm in March 2014 to Albanian inmate Ilie Kareli at Nigrita Prison in northern Greece where he later died.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived at Kavala on Friday for a three-day official visit to Serres and Nigrita, northern Greece.