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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 21:00:25 »
22 forest fires across Greece during 24 hour period prior to 18:00 on 20/05/24
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 20:34:47 »
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Public told to report invasive Asian Hornet sightings amid surge warning

The public are being warned to report sightings of Asian Hornets this summer as experts warn of a potential surge of the damaging invasive predatory wasp.

While Asian Hornets pose no greater risk to humans than native hornets, they threaten honey bees and insect pollinators.
https://www.itv.com/news/2024-05-20/public-told-to-report-invasive-asian-hornet-sightings-amid-surge-warning
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 20:30:01 »
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Nursery deputy manager guilty of killing baby girl after strapping her face down at Cheadle nursery

A nursery deputy manager has been found guilty of killing a baby girl after she placed her face down, tightly swaddled and strapped to a bean bag for more than an hour and a half.
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2024-05-20/nursery-nurse-killed-baby-after-strapping-her-face-down
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 20:26:05 »
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Fire Totally Destroys Unit Suspected in Mass Food Poisoning

The head of the Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) on Monday revealed that state inspectors were due to arrive the same day at a south-central Greece production unit where meals distributed to pupils in the wider Lamia area last week caused food poisoning of 63 minors from seven separate schools.

The specific unit, however, identified as the Giannitsis Logistics S.A., burned to the ground on Sunday evening.
https://www.tovima.com/society/fire-totally-destroys-unit-suspected-in-mass-food-poisoning/
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 20:22:52 »
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Greek diplomats in London rack up £1.6 mln in unpaid congestion charge fees

Greece’s embassy in London has clocked up £1.6 million in unpaid congestion charge fees, new figures have shown.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1239214/greek-diplomats-in-london-rack-up-1-6m-in-unpaid-congestion-charge-fees/
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 20:10:41 »
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Government to extends coverage of ‘Panic Button’ app for domestic violence victims

Greece’s government announced on Monday that the “Panic Button” app will be provided to all adult victims of domestic violence of both sexes across the country.

Until now, the “Panic Button” mobile app has been provided by police stations as well as by the advisory centers of the General Secretariat for Equality and Human Rights, only to female victims of domestic violence residing in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Since March 2023, the app has allowed domestic violence victims to discreetly notify the police of their abuse, undetected by their abuser.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1239197/government-to-extends-coverage-of-panic-button-app-for-domestic-violence-victims/
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 20:01:23 »
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Minor with loaded revolver arrested in Athens

A teenager who was arrested by police after being found in possession of loaded revolver on Sunday night in Athens is expected to be led before a prosecutor.

The young man was apprehended by police in the Kolonos area. Police sources said that during a routine search of his vehicle, officers noticed that he was carrying a gun on his waist that was loaded with five bullets.

The minor’s 39-year-old father was also arrested on the spot.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1239210/minor-with-loaded-revolver-arrested-in-athens/
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 19:57:28 »
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Corfu: Brutal beating of a minor by a 15-year-old boy

A 16-year-old, a high school student, was the victim of a savage beating in Corfu.

The incident occurred at 10 o’clock on Friday night, when the minor student went to a central point in Corfu and specifically to the ‘Psychiatriou’ Square with his friends.

Then another student invited him to enter the area of the former Psychiatric Hospital where there is a ‘refreshment’ room to talk.

According to the father’s allegations, when his son went there, the-15 year-old, began to hit him with punches and kicks, to the point that the child fell unconscious. Despite this, he continued to hit him while he was on the ground.

After a short time the 15-year-old fled and the 16-year-old was taken to the hospital where he was treated as a multi-injury victim with a broken nose, broken jaw, dislocated knee and bruises on his body.

The parents proceeded to file a complaint at Corfu Police Station and began the process of locating the 15-year-old who was arrested on Saturday morning. At the same time his parents were also arrested for neglect of supervision of a minor.
https://en.protothema.gr/corfu-brutal-beating-of-a-minor-by-a-15-year-old-boy/
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 19:40:15 »
Body of a 54 y-o foreign male recovered midday yesterday from the sea at Zesta Nera, Old Kammeni, Santorini.
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Grapevine / News Briefs / Re: 20/05/24
« Last Post by Maik on Monday, 20 May, 2024 @ 17:52:50 »
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Why fuel remains so expensive in Greece
The factors making local unleaded gasoline and diesel rates among the highest in the EU

Fuel prices in Greece are not just high, they are consistently higher than the European Union average, both before and after taxes.

This finding is not new and besides consumers it has from time to time concerned both the competent authorities and the operators of the oil market itself, which is characterized by intense phenomena of fraud and unfair competition to the detriment of healthy businesses.

The fuel market has not yet complied with measures instituted back in 2012 to address violations and the lack of competition, so Greeks are burdened twice: As consumers from high prices and as taxpayers from the loss of public revenue of hundreds of millions of euros per year.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1239148/why-fuel-remains-so-expensive-in-greece/
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