GREEK REPORTERS

Five  Bulgarians and Greeke were looking for  couples in Greece who could not  give birth their own  children. They approached them and promised them to make their dream come true with 20,000 euros. They then traveled to Sliven, Bulgaria, where they found poor pregnant women who could not live their children and brought them to Greece.


They  kept them  in a house in Northern Greece, and then went to give birth to Athens or Katerini - depending on the families that would  adopt the newborn children.  According to police data from 2014 to 2016, the circuit sold 5 babies.



Baby trafficking is booming in Greece because of legislation that puts a lot of obstacles in legitimate adoption, as more and more parents leave their children in public hospitals and institutions because of the crisis.

See the  report of Helen Lazarou at ALPHA TV

Yesterday, all those who watched on their TVs the football match between the PAOK and AEK teams stayed speechless when they saw in the 90th minute the Russian president of PAOK  Ivan Savvidis to invade the stadium holding a gun when the referee canceled his team's goals as  offside. The unprecedented images made the round of Greece and of the world.


The Russian businessman is being searched by the police along with the men who accompanied him, while at an extraordinary meeting the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras decided the indefinite postponement of the Greek championship

See in detail the reportage  of the journalist George  Grigoriadis from Alpha's main news bulletin.