“Karaïskaki Square, watch out – they’re cutting tickets” – See the messages in Viber groups about Traffic Police roadblocks

A 29-year-old and a 55-year-old man had acceptable up an online assemblage with 200,000 members to alert drivers astir traffic constabulary checkpoints successful Athens, Thessaloniki, and Crete. Protothema.gr reveals the messages exchanged successful these Viber groups.

The 2 arrested individuals were administrators of Viber groups that posted real-time updates connected constabulary postulation controls.

• One managed a radical focused connected Attica,
• while the different handled updates for Thessaloniki and Crete.

The archetypal radical had over 168,000 members, and the 2nd more than 30,000.
Although the groups were private, anyone who joined had full access and could post unrecorded updates astir constabulary checks by the Hellenic Police connected the roads.

Protothema.gr obtained messages from the groups “Alarm moto” that exposed the cognition of these online “lookouts.”

One connection read:

“Karaïskaki Square, ticker retired — they’re cutting tickets.”

Another subordinate warned:

“Agioi Anargyroi, they’re penning tickets by the religion utilizing a crane,”
alerting different drivers astir a constabulary checkpoint wherever officers were issuing fines for traffic codification violations.

In different post, a idiosyncratic provided an exact location of constabulary controls extracurricular a café successful Petroupoli, portion idiosyncratic other reported a mixed constabulary unit connected Kifisias Avenue conducting inspections for emission cards, conveyance inspections (KTEO), and helmet use among motorcyclists.

A last connection read:

“They’re cutting tickets adjacent Karaïskaki Square — debar the bluish gross of the airdrome towards Spata.”