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ATHENS – Greek police took into custody a fringe TV host who a prominent investigative journalist claimed wanted him killed and had orchestrated an attack on police and his own home to justify getting police protection.
Menios Fourthiotis was to be questioned over the accusations made by Kostas Vaxevanis that came three weeks after the shooting death of well-known crime journalist Giorgos Karaivaz, gunned down outside his home.
Police raided Fourthiotis home in a northern Athens suburb, said Kathimerini as Vaxevanis said he was making public the alleged death threat to protect himself in the wake of Karaivaz s murder.
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File- Kostas Vaxevanis outside a courtroom at the Athens Appeals Court on Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (Photo by Eurokinissi/Tatiana Bollari) 4/25/2021 TNH Staff
ATHENS – As police are investigating the April 9 killing of crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz, gunned down outside his home, another noted investigative journalist said he s received death threats as well.
The Athens Prosecutor’s Office ordered a preliminary investigation of allegations made by journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, who publishes the highly-followed site Documento that someone is out to kill him, said Kathimerini.
On his site, he said that had gotten information earlier in April that a figure cited in news reports and is being investigated, minor TV presenter Menios Fourthiotis, wanted him and a colleague killed.
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An indictment report against the doctors who treated a baby who died of COVID-19 was submitted today to the prosecutor’s office by the parents through their lawyer, Antonis Sakaroudis.
The family asked for an investigation into whether there was negligence by the medical and nursing staff of the children’s hospital where the unfortunate baby was treated for about a month,
“The family wants justice and learn the cause of death,” said Sakaroudis when leaving the Athens Prosecutor’s Office.
“We want to know if there was medical negligence,” he added.
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ATHENS - Tension over enforcing COVID-19 health measures erupted into violence in the neighborhood of Nea Smyrni when police and demonstrators clashed in a battle that saw tear gas and stun grenades used to break up a crowd.
Police said they were attacked while the protesters said police officers pulled out batons and started whacking people and produced social media videos showing people were arguing with the officers who then assaulted them.
The crowd was also protesting what demonstrators said was police violence after an earlier altercation the same day on March 7 when squads of law enforcement officers went there to investigate reports of violations of the health restrictions during a third extended lockdown.
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