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Pre-trial detention ordered for the 89-year-old gunman for the shootings at EFKA and the Court of Appeal

In front of the investigating magistrate, he repeated what he had said during the preliminary investigation, namely that he had no intent to kill and that he had been planning the attack for months

The police officer who arrested the 89-year-old in a hotel in Patras: “I pretended to be a guest—he told me ‘now all the tv channels will show me’”

Police officer Charalambos Tsitsikas described, minute by minute, how he approached and subdued the 89-year-old gunman who had injured five people at the EFKA office in Kerameikos and at the Athens Court of First Instance building

The 89-year-old man who opened fire & injured five people at EFKA & the Court of Appeals was arrested in Patras – He had a .38 caliber revolver with him

According to reports, the elderly man was located near the KTEL bus station and was allegedly preparing to flee to Italy

Kastoria: Bear cub killed by firearm

It was a male bear cub, approximately six months old and weighing 10.5 kilograms – The necropsy revealed it had received a direct shot from very close range

Sweden: Government seeks to restrict access to semi-automatic weapons after school massacre

The massacre at an education center in Örebro, central Sweden, left ten dead on Tuesday afternoon

Larissa: 52-year-old man arrested for hiding an arsenal in his house

Apart from the weapons, police also discovered cannabis

Western Attica: Large cache of weapons and explosives discovered – Ammonium dynamite, detonators, and automatic weapons

An investigation was conducted in two underground locations in Western Attica, where five individuals were arrested during the operation

Amalia: 20-year-old man in hospital after being shot – He suffered a ruptured spleen

Probably the wound was caused by a BB gun - Authorities are investigating the incident

Maroussi: Tightening the grip on the perpetrator of the murder – A matter of time his arrest, say police officers

Most of the 10 or so people involved in the scuffle that took place outside the shop are said to have a criminal past

Maroussi: Suspect of a murder outside a bar is on the run

What preceded the cold-blooded execution and what the police are investigating - Dead a 23-year-old man, wounded a 26-year-old soldier and a 23-year-old man

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