A Thessaloniki court of appeal, after finding the inmate guilty of intentional homicide, recognized what it called a "mitigating circumstance of subsequent good behavior" and reduced the sentence to 15 years behind bars
The victim, 15, in the latest shocking instance of "revenge porn" allegedly tried to end her life twice when she learned of the circulated lewd material
Meanwhile, pressure builds on Yannis Panagopoulos, the president of the GSEE trade union umbrella group, to resign
According to the local media in the south-central city of Lamia, the boy’s mother abandoned the child when hearing a court decision giving custody to the biological father
The physician was arrested last September in possession of 3,000 euros in marked bills
A European arrest warrant was issued last October and concerned seven cases of attempted sabotage on five different German Navy warships at a Hamburg shipyards
The 46-year-old suspect served only four years of a 16-year-sentence, mostly in a prison psych ward, for fatally stabbing his mother in 2014; shocking incident again generates public debate on recidivism, lenient sentencing in Greece
A case that reached the highest level of Greece's justice system involved two divorced parents, a lawyer and a lower court judge, who clashed over their child's name, place of baptism, custody and child support
An Athens mixed jurist-juror felony court ruled that a 45-year-old defendant gunned down the victim in July 2024 outside his Neo Psychiko office as part of a contract killing linked to real estate deals on the island of Mykonos
According to reports, Greece's independent authority against money laundering has reportedly frozen all assets owned by the pair in the country, while conveying to Swiss authorities a request that banks accounts they maintain in that country also be frozen
Observers who have closely followed political and judicial developments in recent years note that while the Tempi tragedy and its judicial handling have further shaken public confidence, they merely added to a longstanding sense of frustration among citizens
Latest judicial reform, accompanied by a specific online platform, aims to dramatically cut 'red tape', free up judges and court staff; notaries to publish wills
The pair is being tried for allegations, made in testimony before anti-corruption prosecutors, that 10 politicians received kickbacks by Novartis’ subsidiary in Greece
Judge Frank Caprio, the Rhode Island jurist known worldwide for his compassion and globally viral courtroom show 'Caught in Providence,' has died at 88.
The former political leaders and top lawmaker was arrested at the Athens airport this past week on an international arrest warrant issued by his home country, where authorities accuse him of embezzlement reaching one billion USD
Earlier in the week Petros Filippidis’ 2 felony convictions for attempted rape were upheld by an Athens appellate court
The development comes in the wake of revelations regarding an explosive case involving the alleged murder of at least five infants and toddlers, dating back to 2013, by a local woman
The ruling by the court, which considers salary and benefit issues affecting judges and prosecutors, may point to a similar fate for similar legal challenges by public sector unions
The period under scrutiny is between 2017 and 2020, and focuses on subsidies doled out to beneficiaries claiming pastureland that either did not belong to them or was never leased to them
Vassilis Kalogirou's disappearance achieved a greater degree of notoriety because he is the son of a top Larissa prosecutor involved in the Tempi rail collision investigation