Last November, in Neos Kosmos, a 58-year-old man was beaten to death after a fight with a motorcycle driver who, as he claimed, had stopped him. Several years ago, in the summer of 2007, two brothers killed a 29-year-old man in cold blood in Agios Ioannis Square in Agia Paraskevi.

Two local men on the large island of Crete were taken into custody early Tuesday morning on charges of assault and attempted assault against a group of German tourists four days ago, a “road rage” incident that generated intense media coverage and led to a police manhunt for the pair.