{"id":8459,"date":"2026-06-23T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/foreign-exhibitionist-chased-26-year-old-in-syngrou-underpass\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:00:23","slug":"foreign-exhibitionist-chased-26-year-old-in-syngrou-underpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/foreign-exhibitionist-chased-26-year-old-in-syngrou-underpass\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign exhibitionist chased 26-year-old in Syngrou underpass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A 26-year-old woman experienced terror on Syngrou Avenue, near Panteion University, on the afternoon of Monday, June 22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A foreign national of Yemeni origin followed her into an underground pedestrian crossing in the area and chased her while simultaneously exposing his genitals. The incident took place near a playground where underage children were playing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old eventually managed to get away from the perpetrator and immediately notified the authorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hellenic Police quickly located the suspect on Lagoumitzi Street and arrested him.<\/strong> A case file was formed against him for indecent assault, while he faces additional charges for illegal entry and residence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The case highlights once again the security issues faced by citizens in central areas of Attica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfg-meta\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;font-size:0;height:0;overflow:hidden;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">nfg-origin:gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old woman was chased by a Yemeni man who exposed himself in an Athens pedestrian crossing before police arrested him on indecent assault and immigration charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":8458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[158,100,242,138,3897,239,7880,7881],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-athens","tag-greece","tag-hellenic-police","tag-migrants-criminality","tag-public-safety","tag-sexual-assault","tag-syngrou-avenue","tag-yemeni-national","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}