Yesterday’s News Wrap-up includes the following:
Latsco Direct Investments Cyprus Limited, an investment vehicle of Marianna Latsi’s Latsco Family Office, will acquire a 10% stake in GEK TERNA Group, the operator of the Attiki Odos toll motorway, as the latter announced in an official statement. The mega deal vindicates a report by OT.gr.
For the past weeks, the media has been awash with alarming stories about teen violence in Greece. These stories are usually accompanied by video, captured by the teens themselves, showing groups of young people assailing one person or another with kicking, punching, and hair-pulling. Yet according to the available data, teen violence in Greece is not at any particular peak, and in fact has likely decreased over the past decade.
Passenger trains in Greece will not operate on Thursday, Oct. 10, after a union representing engine drivers at Hellenic Train announced a 24-hour strike. The development is conditional on a pending court ruling.
A special UN anti-torture task force, assigned to investigate and inspect cases of possible torture, mistreatment, and violations of prisoners’ human rights, landed in Athens on Tuesday. The UN unit called the “Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment” (SPT), will be on a 12-day mission in Greece, as part of its regular audits of police stations, migrant detention centers, correctional facilities or prisons, and border security checkpoints.
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