>Greece shifting many police guards to patrol duty
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece plans to shift roughly half of its police officers who are used for guard duty to crime-fighting efforts in cities instead, the national police spokesman said Tuesday. He...
View ArticleGreece to shift hundreds of police from guard duty to patrols in hopes of...
ATHENS, Greece - Greece plans to shift roughly half of its police officers who are used for guard duty to crime-fighting efforts in cities instead, the national police spokesman said Tuesday. He added...
View ArticleGreek police detains 1,130 immigrants
AFP - Greek police vowed Sunday not to relent in their efforts to evict undocumented immigrants after a sweep they said had netted 1,130 in central Athens over the weekend. Police said a total of...
View ArticleGreece cracks down on undocumented migrants
Greek authorities detained undocumented immigrants in the capital over the weekend. The move signals the beginning of an effort to free up jobs and resources for the crisis-stricken country. Police...
View ArticleFor Albanians, taste of capitalism turns sour in Greece
TIRANA/ATHENS (Reuters) - Artur Metaj made his first drachmas in 1991 selling Bermuda shorts to U.S. soldiers stationed in the Greek capital, Athens. Greece offered Albanians like Metaj their first...
View ArticleMigrant group says more than 100 Asians, Africans attacked during racist...
ATHENS, Greece - Government officials appealed for calm Friday after three days of attacks by ultranationalist mobs on dark-skinned foreigners in Athens, sparked by the fatal mugging of a Greek man in...
View ArticleGreece shifting many police guards to patrol duty
Click photo to enlarge FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 file photo shows young immigrants standing behind a fence at a detention center, in the northeastern Greek village of Filakio near the...
View ArticleGreek police detain 1130 immigrants
GREEK police have vowed not to relent in their efforts to evict undocumented immigrants after a sweep they said had netted 1130 in central Athens over the weekend. Police said a total of 4900 people...
View ArticleGreek police evict immigrants from Athens
Police said Saturday they had rounded up about 2,000 people in an operation to evict undocumented immigrants from central Athens, claiming that "national survival" was at stake for debt-choked Greece....
View ArticleGolden Dawn glows amid Greece gloom
- The Athenians of Amerikis Square are in no doubt about it - Golden Dawn, the far-right nationalist party many describe as neo-fascist - is to be thanked for cleaning up their neighbourhood....
View ArticleAlarm at Greek police 'collusion' with far-right Golden Dawn
Greece's far-right party, Golden Dawn, won 18 parliamentary seats in the June election with a campaign openly hostile to illegal immigrants and there are now allegations that some Greek police are...
View ArticleGreece's crackdown on illegal immigration
NEA VYSSA -- Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, the convoys have been repelling wave...
View Article>In crisis, Greece rounds up immigrants
NEA VYSSA, Greece (AP) — Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, the convoys have been...
View ArticleGreece cracks down on illegal immigration amid financial crisis
August 5, 2012: Police detain a group of migrants in central Athens.AP NEA VYSSA, Greece – Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks...
View ArticleIn crisis, Greece rounds up suspected illegal immigrants, tries to seal border
NEA VYSSA, Greece - Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, the convoys have been repelling...
View ArticleGreece Illegal Immigration: Police Crack Down During Crisis
In this Thursday Aug. 9, 2012, photo illegal immigrants walk along a road in Lavara village, northern Greece, near the borders with Turkey. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis) NEA VYSSA, Greece -- Border...
View ArticleGreeks confront crime wave amid austerity
Greece's faltering economy has put many people out of work and cut support for illegal immigrants. Now Greeks are facing a rise in crime their police seem unable to stop. It probably never occurred to...
View ArticleEvros crossings down radically
The number of people crossing illegally into Greece via the Evros border has dropped by 84 percent since the government launched a massive crackdown on clandestine migrants this summer, police said...
View ArticleIn Crisis, Greece Rounds Up Immigrants
NEA VYSSA, Greece (AP) — Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, the convoys have been...
View ArticleOnce-Lively Square Is a Center of Greek Woe
By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH ATHENS—Once the vibrant commercial heart of Athens, the capital's central Omonia Square now is ringed by shuttered hotels and vacant shops and haunted by drug dealers, addicts and...
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View ArticleThe tourists held by Greek police as illegal migrants
Greek police have stepped up efforts to catch illegal immigrants in recent months, launching a new operation to check the papers of people who look foreign. But tourists have also been picked up in...
View ArticleMIGRATION: Greece - “an unsafe environment for migrants”
BANGKOK, 17 August 2012 (IRIN) - Human rights groups have condemned recent police crackdowns in Greece on undocumented migrants, inhumane detention conditions, and hate crimes committed with impunity....
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