Two men held with small amounts of cannabis in Zakynthos and South Corfu
Police arrested a 20-year-old Greek man in Zakynthos on 9 November 2026 and a 34-year-old foreign national in South Corfu on 7 November, both for possessing small amounts of unprocessed cannabis. The two detentions were recorded in the Ionian Islands regional police bulletin, which gave no weights or further charges.
🇬🇷 Zakynthos and South Corfu, Ionian Islands · Greece
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Hellenic Police (Ελληνική Αστυνομία), General Regional Police Directorate of the Ionian Islands +2
Police arrested two people for possessing small amounts of unprocessed cannabis
over the weekend of 7 to 9 November 2026, one in Zakynthos and one in South
Corfu.[1]
In Zakynthos, officers of the DIAS rapid-response unit arrested a 20-year-old
Greek man in the early hours of Monday 9 November 2026 for possessing a small
amount of unprocessed cannabis.[1]In South Corfu, members of the Crime
Prevention and Suppression Team, the Hellenic Police unit known as OPKE,
arrested a 34-year-old foreign national on the evening of Saturday 7 November
2026, also for possessing a small amount of unprocessed cannabis.[1]
The two detentions were recorded in the offences and incidents bulletin of the
General Regional Police Directorate of the Ionian Islands.[2]
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Hellenic Police (Ελληνική Αστυνομία); General Regional Police Directorate of the Ionian Islands; DIAS rapid-response unit (Ομάδα ΔΙ.ΑΣ.); Crime Prevention and Suppression Team (Ομάδα Πρόληψης και Καταστολής Εγκλήματος)
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No weight is given for the cannabis found on either man; the reports say only small amounts of unprocessed cannabis.
The sources give the two arrests as one bulletin total covering two separate detentions in different places, 7 November in South Corfu and 9 November in Zakynthos.
No charges, court referral or outcome beyond detention were reported for either man.
The 34-year-old held in South Corfu is described only as a foreign national, with no country named; the 20-year-old in Zakynthos is described as a Greek national.
Only one original account was found (CorfuPress.com, reprinted in excerpt by Kerkyra.Net), and the police bulletin it quotes could not be opened separately.
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