Greek police: «Less crime in 2013»

Criminal activity, as murders and robberies, was lower compared to the previous year, according to official police statistics while the entry of illegal immigrants was limited.

Newsbomb

ENGLISH NEWS
1'


The number of people who arrested for economic crimes is also interesting as 3,072 persons has been arrested for debts to State.
Compared to 2012 homicides going down by 11.9 percent, robberies down by 17.9 percent, burglaries down by 15.2 percent and car thefts down by 7.6 percent.

Greek Police handled more cases on weapons and 537 smuggling cases.

ROBBERIES

As far as it is concerned robberies he report noted that 4,919 cases were recorded across the country in 2013, compared to 5,992 in 2012.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Undocumented immigrants arrested in 2013 came to 43,002 persons and the arrests of illegal immigrants at the Greek-Turkish borders were down by 96.3 percent in 2013. This is a development which the department attributed to the implementation of the "Aspida project".