Paleokostas

A Hollywood-based journalist has spent a year working on the movie-like story of Greek bandit Vassilis Paleokostas, the Greek Reporter can reveal today. Paleokostas, 46, famously escaped from Korydallos prison in a helicopter for the second time in 2009,...

Alket Rizaj, a convicted Albanian contract killer who took hostage six guards at Maladrino Prison in Central Greece on March 16 and held them nearly 24 hours in a bid to escape jail for a third time, surrendered late...