Arresting case of lovestruck Greek posing as police chief

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ATHENS (AFP) — Greek police have arrested a 49-year-old aluminium fitter for impersonating a police chief while wooing his lover, the semi-state Athens News Agency (ANA) reported on Monday.

The man regularly visited his girlfriend's home in the western Athens district of Ilion wearing the uniform to impress her.

But the woman's parents eventually became suspicious and alerted the local police station, who found no trace of his purported major-general on file.

Cases of impostors using police uniforms arise every few months in Greece.

Over the weekend, another man was arrested in the northern Athens suburb of Halandri after impersonating an officer to obtain loans from acquaintances, ANA said.

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