6 February: The island of
Aegina is left without
drinking water after an
explosion disables a 12-kilometer-long (7.5-mile) undersea fresh water pipeline.
Greater Athens governor Nikos Hardalias calls it an act of
sabotage.[1]
12 February: A man
opens fire at a
shipping company in
Glyfada, killing three people, before killing himself.[2]
3 May:
Nikolaos Michaloliakos, the leader of the far-right
Golden Dawn party, is granted early release following a legal request and on account of his elderly age, albeit with several conditions such as a ban on traveling outside the greater Athens area.[5] However, the decision is overturned by another panel of judges following an appeal, leading to his arrest on 3 June.[6]
16 May: Forty-two migrants and rescued and three others are reported missing after their vessel undergoes an emergency south of
Crete.[7]