Police

A body of a man is found in the area of Chepinsko Shosse, in the direction of Novi Iskar.

The police report was filed this morning around 08:30.

According to the initial data, the man died in a road accident.

A baby was killed and 17 people injured when a car sprang up on a pavement on the famous coastal street to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Nova TV reported. This was reported on Thursday by local authorities quoted by the France press.

The Constitutional Court has ordered an investigation into police officers who have been suspected of having a role in Süleyman Göksel Yerdurt’s broken arm during the Gezi Park incidents in 2013, saying the state’s dismissal of the case had been “out of line with human dignity.”

Two men have been charged with terrorism offences by police who had been investigating a suspected Christmas attack plot, The Telegraph writes. 

Andi Sami Star, 31, from Chesterfield, and a 22-year-old man from Sheffield have been charged with engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism, West Yorkshire Police said.

The investigation into the paint attack at the Israeli Embassy in Athens at 6 a.m. on Christmas Day has revealed lapses in security procedures, according to sources.

The Greek police force (ELAS) has dispatched hundreds of officers and increased patrols in parts of western Attica that suffered widespread damage in flash floods last week amid reports of looting.

The leader of the main conservative opposition New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Monday contacted the chief of the Greek Police force, Lieutenant General Costas Tsouvalas, to congratulate him on the arrest of a 29-year-old terrorism suspect who has been linked to a series of letter bomb attacks. 

The specialized appellate criminal court ruled that the 2 police officers from 7th police station in Sofia will remain in custody. Alexander Stanev and Edzhevit Osman are accused of protecting the criminal operations of a drug distribution gang and of taking bribes.

Members of law enforcement agencies often become the targets of excessive criticism. It is partly understandable due to the nature of their jobs, as they are called upon to act as the physical arm of the law, even if that involves, which it frequently does, the use of force.

European police forces cannot impose blanket height restrictions on recruits because that discriminates against women, the EU's top court ruled on Wednesday, throwing out an argument from the Greek government.