An 85-year-old man was detained early Thursday after allegedly brandishing a weapon to intimidate students outside a middle school in the Athens suburb of Agios Ioannis Rentis. No injuries were reported.
Student and university associations staged and completed a rally in central Athens on Thursday afternoon ahead of the third anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster, organizers said.
Outside the Pilgrims’ Bureau in Ouranoupoli – the main gateway to Mount Athos – men gather well before dawn, crowding together to collect their diamonitirio, the short-term “visa” required to enter the medieval, male-only monastic community.
An 87-year-old man died Thursday after falling from a second-floor balcony in the Sykkies neighborhood of Thessaloniki.
Organizers of the annual Patra carnival, Greece’s largest carnival celebration, said Thursday they are preparing legal action following alleged acts of vandalism during last Sunday’s grand parade in the western city.
A Greek Orthodox priest went on trial in Thessaloniki Thursday accused of allegedly defrauding members of his flock out of at least €1.3 million in donations that would supposedly have helped him to jockey for power within the Church.
The decline in demand recorded from abroad for large-scale holiday homes in Greece, especially if they are old properties, is significant.
Another four shepherds have been arrested in central Greece for allegedly grazing their flocks outdoors in breach of regulations against the spread of a livestock disease that has severely hit animal husbandry, officials said Thursday.
Nikos Andoulakis, leader of center-left PASOK-KINAL, said the conviction on Thursday of four businesspeople involved in the illegal wiretapping of dozens of high-profile Greek figures, including him, is a “major defeat of the state within a state” created by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Two people were arrested on Thursday after allegedly attempting to bring large knives into the Evelpidon courthouse complex in Athens, authorities said.