Tag Archives: Thessaloniki

The life of brand new, shinny blue and white wagons of Thessaloniki Metro was short. Unknown perpetrators entered the depot where they are parked and sprayed them with graffiti and slogans. The vandals entered the depot in Pylaia on Sunday. No security guard was around to hinder them. There was …

Read More »

Pontic Greeks in Thessaloniki let 100 lanterns high into the night sky in order to commemorate the Genocide of Pontic Greeks first by the Young Turks and then by Kemalist forces. May 19th commemorates the beginning of the ethnic cleansing when the forces of the founder of modern Turkey Mustafa …

Read More »

“Metro in Thessaloniki’: For three decades this sentence was a joke among the residents of Greece’s second largest city in the north of the country. But now, the metro in Thessaloniki is a train closer to become true. The carriages of the first metro line have been parked in Pilaia …

Read More »

Metro digging in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, has unearthed an extraordinary treasure trove of more than 300,000 ancient artefacts, from gold wreaths and rings to statues of the goddess Aphrodite. The construction of a metro network beneath the Greek city of Thessaloniki has unearthed an extraordinary treasure trove of ancient artefacts, …

Read More »

A dog in Thessaloniki alerted its owners on a fire that had broken out in an neighboring apartment. Dog Chloe barked and woke up her owner who realized the building was filled with fumes and called the Fire Service, preventing the worst. The fire broke out at 7 o’ clock in …

Read More »

The first private crematorium in Greece has received a license and it looks as if it will go in operation before the public ones. The private facility is located in Ritsona in North-East Attica, near Halkida. It is expected to go in operation in upcoming autumn. According to daily ethnos, …

Read More »

Residents of Thessaloniki, North Greece, have started recycling their plastic waste transforming it into 3D printed street furniture with the help of new technologies. They use a new laboratory set up studio The New Raw and project Print Your City that makes furniture for the city from plastic waste. The Zero …

Read More »

Customs authorities at Macedonia Airport in Thessaloniki stroke a blow against illegal human organ and tissue trade on Friday. They intercepted a female passenger carrying a complete, full-thickness corneal ring used in cornea transplants. The discovery was made whule the customs authorities were checking the baggage of passengers arriving in …

Read More »

The public prosecutor has ordered preliminary investigation into the legal framework for the operation of Lime scooters in the city of Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. The investigation follows a lawsuit submitted submitted by a citizen. Assigned with the investigation is the local Traffic Police that has to explore whether there is …

Read More »

Mayor of Thessaloniki, Yannis Boutaris, announced on Friday that he is determined to  implement the anti-smoking law by the book and will impose fines to owners of restaurants, cafeteria etc as well as to their smoking customers. “Until Easter we will inform the entrepreneurs and then, with the minimum [law …

Read More »

A resident in Thessaloniki found an original way to protest the huge hole on his neighborhood street, the poor infrastructure conditions and the indifference of the municipality. He planted a small cypress right in the middle of the hole and the street. “The soil must be fertile as the hole …

Read More »

“I will never sell my bootees again,” says the 90-year-old granny that spent twelve in a police station in Thessaloniki for selling her handmade garment without vendor’s license. Days after the arrest that triggered an outage in the Greek society, the woman is still in shock. Video: granny at police …

Read More »

A 90-year-old woman has been arrested and kept at police station for 12 hours after she was found to sell handmade bootees without a vendor’s license. The arrest has triggered an outrage with the woman’s daughter to denounce that the granny did not even receive water during the nightmare hours …

Read More »

A silent march from Thessaloniki’s Freedom Plaza to the city’s old railway station was held in the city on Sunday to mark the 76th year since the departure of the first ‘death trains’ carrying Thessaloniki Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Hundreds walked in silence, carrying white balloons bearing the …

Read More »

Vegan dietary habits are gaining more and more fans in Greece and Vegan Food Festivals are organized in one city after the other. After a Vegan event held in Athens last October attracted more than 20,000 visitors, the city of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece is preparing for its First Vegan …

Read More »

One firefighter died and another was transferred with respiratory problems in hospital on Friday. Both men were actively operating against a fire in an open plot near a factory in the industrial area of Sindos by Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. The tragedy took place around 3 0′ clock Friday afternoon. …

Read More »

Unknown perpetrators staged an attack with Molotof cocktail bombs against an apartment where refugees from Iraq have been living in Neapoli, Thessaloniki, northern Greece. At the time of the attack, two women and eight children aged 1 to 15 years, were sleeping inside the home, state broadcaster ERT TV reported. …

Read More »

A few dozens migrants have set up an informal refugee camp in the area near the old Railway Station in western Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. The tents have been reportedly set up between rubble and garbage, exposed to the rain and cold. The migrants, mostly from Pakistan, told media that they …

Read More »

For one more time, the Jewish Memorial Cemetery in Thessaloniki became the target of vandals. The unknown perpetrators violently unripped and broke the marble plaques. The Jewish Memorial Cemetery is located in the court yard of Thessaloniki University Campus. The Memorial stands on the old Jewish Cemetery that was destroyed …

Read More »

A 17-year-old girl has been charged for the murder of her newborn after she had given birth in an apartment in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, last week. The baby died of severe head injuries. The newborn allegedly slipped off the young mother’s handa right after the labor and fell on the …

Read More »