A 40-year-old Dutch tourist has drowned while attempting to rescue a friend who ran into trouble swimming near a rented speedboat off Malia, Crete, as three children aboard the vessel watched in horror.

A foreign tourist was arrested after driving under the influence of alcohol in a crash that sent his car airborne before it struck a tree and multiple parked vehicles in Chersonissos, Crete, authorities said.

Greek anti-organized crime units have arrested 20 people in Crete — including a sitting municipal deputy mayor — over an alleged €3 million fraud against EU agricultural subsidy funds that operated for five years through three state-approved farm grant processing centres, with investigators tracking approximately 90 additional suspects.