March 22, 2019 FEATURED, Social
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 …
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March 17, 2019
World
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 …
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March 10, 2019
Eat-Drink
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 …
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March 1, 2019
Social
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. …
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February 19, 2019
Refugees
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. …
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February 4, 2019
Refugees
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 …
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January 26, 2019
Greece, Politics
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 …
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January 22, 2019
Social
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 …
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January 21, 2019
environment
Greece’s first vertical garden on a public building has been planted in Thessaloniki, the second biggest city in the country. The facade of the Urban Environment Directorate building on Kleanthous Street in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has been converted into Greece’s first vertical garden, covering an area of …
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January 14, 2019
FEATURED, Tourism
Low-cost flyer Ryanair has announced on Monday that it will halt all flights between Thessaloniki and Athens and vice versa as of 1. April 2019, right at the begin of the tourism season. The route Athens-Thessaloniki was the most used among the domestic flights. The last flight from Thessaloniki to …
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January 12, 2019
FEATURED, Video GRID
The pilot of an Airbus 320 landed in “Macedonia” airport in snowy Thessaloniki, North Greece. On that specific snowy day, on January 4th 2019, the visibility was low, a phenomenons that occurs often in Macedonia airport. According to YouTube Channel “Pilots View” it was the pilot who shot the video …
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January 9, 2019
weather
A shock for Eurowings passengers heading to Thessaloniki in North Greece from Cologne in Germany on Wednesday morning. A lightning stroke Eurowings flight EW652 forcing the pilot to return to departure airport for safety reasons. Eurowings flight EW652 had to return to Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday morning, after the airplane …
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January 5, 2019
Tourism
Dozens of Ryanair passengers were shocked to find themselves in Romania instead of Greece on Friday night. The plane from London to Thessaloniki landed in Timisoara airport in west Romania on Friday evening, as the pilots could apparently not land in Macedonia airport in Northern Greece due to low cloudiness. But …
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November 13, 2018
Refugees
One woman died and nine people were injured in one more traffic accident with migrants in northern Greece. The traffic accident occurred at a side road of Egnatia Highway near Thessaloniki at 8 o’ clock Tuesday morning. According to local media, the driver did not stop at a police signal …
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November 11, 2018
Greece, Politics
90-year-old Djordge Mihailovic could not be absent from the ceremony marking 100 years from the end of World War I. Serbian Djordge Mihailovic is the keeper of the Serbian cemetery Zeitenlik Allied Cemetery in Thessaloniki, the biggest military cemetery in the Balkans. Dressed in military uniform, the guardian of the …
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November 10, 2018
Refugees
A 4-year-old child died and 27 people were injured when a van transferring migrants collided with a truck on the old national highway Thessaloniki-Kavala on Friday night. Among the injured are five children with the youngest to be a 5-month-old baby. Injured are also two traffickers who are hospitalized guarded. …
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November 3, 2018
Video GRID
Thessaloniki by Night. Amazing footage by Up Drones. It is not a coincidence, that the second biggest city in Greece is called the “Bride of Thermaikos” Gulf.
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October 28, 2018
Greece
Macedonia protests against the Prespes Agreement between Greece and FYROM were part of the official parade held in Thessaloniki to commemorate the Oxi Day, the historic day when Greece rejected the Italian invasion on 28. October 1940. “GREEKS SAVE MACEDONIA” was read on two placards held by children, when Members …
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October 22, 2018
Social
Greek police has arrested a young street musician in Thessaloniki and triggered an outrage in media and internet community. The young woman was playing music in the city’s central Aristotelous square on Sunday. Police officers arrested her and furthermore they filed a lawsuit for beggary. The arrest triggered an outrage …
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October 8, 2018
Refugees
Dozens of migrants from Iraq and Iran have been camping on the main square of Thessaloniki and outside the police station awaiting to be arrested. Once arrested, the police can give them the necessary documents so that they can apply for asylum, many of them told local media. Families with …
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