Hooliganism

The drug trafficking network in which numerous members of violent fan groups associated with AEK Athens football club were also involved consisted of four separate criminal organizations - How did they operate? How did they communicate? - Why has the government done nothing?

Asked about the troubling impression caused by the suspension of a sentence imposed against Aris FC after the blackmail and threats lobbed by Theodoros Karpidis, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that the government had no involvement in the matter

Theodoros Karypidis didn't hesitate to threaten the government and ministers with hooligan violence at the Thessaloniki metro. MPs of the 3 major parties condemn his actions

"If Karypidis wanted to give us a heads up, he’d have gone to the prosecutor. He wouldn’t have called me and told me at least twice to go tell Mitsotakis," Nikos Tachiaos stresses, explaining his decision to take the matter to the justice system after the threats from the Aris FC executive

The alleged protection racket emerged amid a police probe into a particularly violent hooligan rumble last week outside a football stadium in central Athens

According to reports, one mas was slightly injured in the central Athens square, who was alternately identified as an Iraqi or Egyptian national

As long as Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis remains a hostage to the Hellenic Football Federation’s system, the longer pro football in the country will be plagued by a “gangrene” eating away at its flesh – A “holistic” study produced by FIFA-UEFA has never been implemented in its entirety – Impunity of the Baltakos-Filippousis duo continues

The 31-year-old had been intubated for the past three weeks

The development frees 102 Croatian nationals, all young males and reputed “ultras” of the Dinamo Zagreb football club.

PM: "We’ll proceed with their immediate implementation, (of measures) which may have applied in the past but weren’t implemented by the teams.”

The teen was identified as the younger brother of an 18-year-old already in custody. His DNA was allegedly found on a hand-held flare launcher used last week in a near-fatal incident.

 Another 10 Croatian nationals, all young men believed to be Dinamo Zagreb “ultras”, were released on Monday from pretrial remand, slightly more than four months after a deadly hooligan rampage outside the AEK Athens football pitch in northwest Athens’ Nea Philadelphia district. One local man, 29-year-old Michalis Katsouris, was stabbed to death outside the OPAP […]

Latest instance of hooligan violence in Greece after 2 recent fatalities may lead to suspension of pro leagues

The officer was hit with a highly incendiary distress flare fired by a flare gun of the type stored aboard vessels. Reports have the perpetrator firing directly at the victim, rather than a random shot.

A convoy of vehicles carrying Dinamo Zagreb “ultras” crossed half of Greece to end up directly outside AEK Athens’ home field