Murder attempt shocks Serres
A 55-year-old man accused of attempting to burn his estranged wife alive in the city of Serres in northern Greece was ordered into pretrial detention after testifying before judicial authorities on Friday.
A 55-year-old man accused of attempting to burn his estranged wife alive in the city of Serres in northern Greece was ordered into pretrial detention after testifying before judicial authorities on Friday.
The Parliament rejected the no confidence motion jointly submitted by four opposition parties, 157-136, late Friday.
Clashes broke out in Greece’s two largest cities Friday, as protesters hurled gasoline bombs and flares outside parliament.
Three Mykonos residents with ties to the island’s tourism sector have been arrested for allegedly coordinating surveillance on a team of inspectors checking for building violations on the island.
A new MRB poll published by OPEN TV on Friday reveals that a majority of citizens favor early elections amid growing public resentment over the handling of the Tempe railway disaster.
The handling of the deadly fire that ravaged the coastal town of Mati, near Athens, in July 2018 cannot be an excuse for what went wrong at Tempe in the train crash in February 2023.
The week ended with a mixed picture on the Greek bourse.
At the start of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ speech in Parliament, during the debate on a no-confidence motion over the government’s handling of the Tempe disaster, protesters in the visitors’ gallery threw flyers and loudly chanted “guilty,” briefly disrupting the session.
A court has set April 2 as the trial date for Filistor Destempasidis and Maria Marangeli, former protected witnesses in the Novartis bribery case, now facing charges of perjury and false accusations.