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American killed in Greece hit by car to immobilise her before rapeSuzanne Eaton, the American scientist killed in Greece, was raped, police in Crete said Tuesday.Police said Monday that a 27-year-old local man had confessed to the crime.The suspect said in his confession that he had seen Eaton running, and "with sexual assault as a probable motive, hit her twice with his car in order to immobilise her," Crete's Chief of Police Konstantinos Lagoudakis said at a press conference Tuesday."Then, after she was unconscious, he put her in the trunk of his car and took her to the location of the World War II bunker" where her body was found, Lagoudakis said.The suspect raped her and dumped her body into the bunker, covering the opening of the bunker's air shaft with a piece of wood to hide it, Crete Police's head of press Eleni Papathanassiou told CNN.It is not clear if Eaton was still alive when she was raped, she said.
Greece's new PM Mitsotakis removes plan to take priests off state payrollGreece’s newly-elected New Democracy Party on Tuesday scrapped plans to remove priests from the state payroll, reversing a decision by the former Syriza government that aimed to have a clear distinction between church and state.Priests in the Greek Orthodox Church are civil servants in Greece and their salaries are paid directly from the state budget.However last October, the Syriza government reached a tentative agreement with the Church to remove 10,000 clerics from the state payroll and instead offer an annual subsidy to a special church fund.Members of the clergy complained that they did not want to lose their civil servant status.The deal also foresaw a settlement of a decades-old dispute over property rights between the Greek state and the Church, which is one of Greece’s largest real estate owners.
Half of blazes due to arson, fire service figures showAmid a spate of arson arrests in recent weeks when high temperatures and strong winds conspired to fan several large wildfires across the country, statistics acquired by Kathimerini indicate that at least half of all blazes last year were started intentionally.According to the Greek fire service’s arson department, 50 percent of wildfires last year were attributed to arson, with another 25.32 percent blamed on neglect and the remainder on undetermined causes.
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