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.

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.

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.

Civil servants planning strike, protest rally on Tuesday

The umbrella union representing Greece’s public sector workers, ADEDY, has announced a nationwide 24-hour strike on Tuesday.