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Minor Gangs Spark Fear in Elefsina with Four Attacks in Three Days
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Minor Gangs Spark Fear in Elefsina with Four Attacks in Three Days

From Ta Nea · () Greek

Translated from Greek, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Gangs of minors are causing concern in Elefsina, Greece, with four attacks by groups of children reported in three days.
  • Victims' parents describe shocking violence, with attackers surrounding peers, threatening them, and stealing money or valuables.
  • Police have arrested two minors and their parents for neglect, while authorities review footage to identify other gang members.

Gangs of minors are instilling fear in Elefsina, Greece, following four reported attacks in just three days. Parents of the young victims have shared harrowing accounts of the violence their children endured.

At first they started kicking his bicycle, cursing him properly, pushing him and hitting his bicycle, and five surrounded him and then someone punched him, a fist in the stomach.

— Victim's motherDescribing an attack on her son by a minor gang.

The young perpetrators reportedly intimidate, threaten, and assault their peers without hesitation, causing significant anxiety among residents who describe the situation as uncontrolled criminality. One mother recounted how her son was surrounded by five attackers who punched him in the stomach after kicking his bicycle.

The gang's modus operandi involved surrounding their victims, applying psychological and physical pressure. They would demand money or valuables, with one parent noting that victims could lose anywhere from five euros upwards. The attackers' actions escalate if victims do not have money.

They tell them 'let's go further' and they take whatever they have on them. From five euros up to I don't know what a child can carry. We don't know what they do if they don't find money.

— Victim's motherExplaining the gang's methods of extortion.

Parents reported the incidents to the police, leading to the arrest of two minors and their parents for neglecting their supervision. Authorities are reviewing video footage to identify the remaining members of the youth gang that has disrupted the peace for parents and students in Elefsina.

They argued a little, they kicked him a few times. He took quite a few, okay, his face swelled up a bit, his face. His face was bleeding a little, then we went to the police normally. You see what's happening, right? They stabbed the other one the day before yesterday, the situation has gotten very out of hand.

— Victim's fatherDetailing his son's injuries and the escalating violence in the area.
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Originally published by Ta Nea in Greek. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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