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Record ransom paid for Greek shipping tycoon
Athens :: Greece | 9 months ago
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Kidnappers released Greek shipping magnate Pericles Panagopoulos on Tuesday for a record ransom which reports said could be as high as 100 million euros. The 74-year-old founder of Greece's largest ferry company Attica, one of the country's richest men,...
Tags: Pericles Panagopoulos, shipping tycoon, Greece, Athens, shipping magnate, magnate pericles, ferries company, Greek, largest ferries, Attica
Greek militant group claims attacks on police
Athens :: Greece | 9 months ago
Credibility Police say the Greek militant group Revolutionary Struggle has claimed responsibility for recent attacks on police in Athens. Police said Wednesday that the group sent a statement to the weekly Pontiki newspaper saying it carried out a Dec.
Tags: Athens, Revolutionary Struggle, claims responsibility, Pondiki, militant group, group claims, police bus
Greek shipowner abducted in seaside Athens suburb
Athens :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Three gunmen abducted an ill and elderly Greek shipping magnate Monday in a seaside suburb of Athens, police said. A Greek shipowners union identified him as Periklis Panagopoulos. Authorities did not divulge the victim's name but police cordoned off...
Greek shipping tycoon kidnapped in Athens
Athens :: Greece | 9 months ago
Credibility Three armed men kidnapped Greek shipping tycoon Pericles Panagopoulos and his driver in Athens Monday morning, police said. Panagopoulos, 70, owns Attica Enterprises and Blue Star Ferries, and also has a major interest in Minoan Lines.
Tags: Pericles Panagopoulos, Athens, shipping tycoons, Greece, tycoons pericles, tycoons kidnap, shipping magnate, domestic terrorism
Battle renewed as youths clash with Greek police
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility Riot police fought running street battles with masked youths once more after an Athens rally Friday, in the first major test of the new Greek cabinet's threat to crack down on violence after countrywide riots last month. The rally came two days after...
Gunmen attack Greek riot police
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility Gunmen shot and wounded a police officer Monday in a continuation of violence that broke out in Greece last month after the police shooting of a teenager. At least two masked gunmen sprayed more than 20 rounds of bullets at a riot police unit, striking...
Tags: teenager, Athens, riot police, police unit, Greece, seriously injured, assault rifle, gunmen attack, gunmen sprayed, Greek
Palestinians protest in Greece
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility About 200 demonstrators chanted "hands off Gaza," as they gathered near an outdoor concert in Athens main square shortly before midnight. "This is our New Year's message: For this carnage to stop in the Middle East and for governments around the world...
Tags: Athens
Rioters use rifles in Athens attack
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility The discovery has raised fears of renewed violence by urban guerrilla groups that have targeted police in the past. None of the 19 policemen on board was hurt in Tuesday's pre-dawn attack, in which at least seven shots were fired at the bus as it passed...
Tags: Athens
Shots fired at Greek police bus
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility More than 3,000 protesters chanting "cops, pigs, murderers" have marched through central Athens after an armed opened fire at a riot police bus, in a third week of anti-government protests since police shot dead a teenager. Police said the unidentified...
Tags: police, athens, teenager, Athens University, police bus, riots, Greece, police car, shots fired, riots police
Greek youths firebomb French institute
Athens :: Greece | 10 months ago
Credibility We had already, after the incidents last week, warned (French) travellers to Greece to take care in city centres," said French Ambassador Christophe Farnaud, who added it was too early to say why the institute had been targetted. "We're now going to consider...
Tags: Athens, French Institute, Greece, cultural institute, youth attack, youth firebombed
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