Eleni Zaroulia, a former Golden Dawn MP and the wife of convicted party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, was heading to prison on Thursday morning after turning herself in at a police station in the northern Athens suburb of Pefki.
A strong earthquake with preliminary magnitude 4.8 was felt across central Greece around noon Thursday, but no severe damage or injuries were immediately reported.
A 34-year-old man faces charges of online slander over a video posted on social media that allegedly targeted Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis.
Two teenagers have been arrested in the northern city of Thessaloniki for allegedly stealing €40,000 worth of specialized electrical engineering equipment, police said Thursday.
Four employees of Greece’s HEDNO power distribution network operator have been summoned to testify as suspects in connection with a wildfire near Athens last summer that killed one man.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias is traveling Thursday to neighboring NATO ally Bulgaria, which Athens has pledged to help shield against potential attack by Iranian ballistic missiles amid the US and Israeli bombings of Iran.
Greece is considering legislation to ban full-face coverings worn for religious reasons, Migration Minister Thanos Plevris told Parliament, though no framework has been finalized.
Farmers in northern Greece are planning a protest rally in Thessaloniki on Thursday afternoon, called to coincide with the inauguration of an agricultural expo at the northern port city’s fairgrounds.
The key Syntagma Square Athens metro station will close at 5:30 pm Thursday, police announced, shortly before a planned protest against the US and Israeli attacks on Iran that’s also expected to disrupt traffic in the city center.