Offences against the person

A well-known trapper and an accomplice who attacked and seriously injured a student in a Thessaloniki nightclub in January have been handed a three-year suspended sentence after being found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of grievous bodily harm.

The trapper, 25, and his friend, 24, were released from custody, following sentencing at Giannitsa Mixed Court.

On April 4, Apostolos Lytras will sit in the dock of the Monopolium Court of Appeal, accused of beating her estranged wife Sophia Polyzogopoulou. The hearing of this case was set for next April and before a single-member Court of Appeal, due to special jurisdiction, given the accused’s status as a lawyer.

The investigated offences, under preliminary examination, concern the disruption of public service and unlawful violence

A 23-year-old man, who had been beaten by two suspects in Thessaloniki on Friday, remains hospitalized in critical condition after sustaining severe injuries.

The victim was assaulted by two men in the earlier hours Friday. One of the alleged suspects is a well-known trap music artist. 

A woman was arrested on the island of Lesvos for pouring flammable liquid over her husband and setting him on fire. 

The victim, a businessman in the catering industry, was rushed to an intensive care unit in the island's capital of Mytilini with extensive burns and breathing difficulties. 

The union of Attica police's special guards said Monday that they taking legal action to change the charges brought against twenty people arrested in Saturday's operations to remove people from two squats in central Athens from a misdemeanour to a felony.

A court in Thessaloniki charged a 26-year-old truck driver on Tuesday with intentionally causing grievous bodily harm during a fight that broke out on Monday at a road blockade by protesting refugees outside the Diavata camp in northern Greece.

A court in Thessaloniki Friday handed a suspended three-year sentence to a pizzeria owner for beating up a former employee.

The 33-year-old defendant was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm and illegal possession and use of a weapon.

The trial of seven people arrested during riots on Saturday night in Athens has been deferred to November 29.

The suspects face charges of attempted grievous bodily harm, disturbing the peace and resisting authorities.

The riots took place after events commemorating the 45th anniversary of a student uprising against Greece's military dictatorship in 1973.

Six people arrested during the rioting that followed events to mark the 45th anniversary of a student uprising against the military dictatorship are to defend themselves before an investigating magistrate on Wednesday.

The six face criminal charges of using explosives and the misdemeanor of causing grievous bodily harm.