September 22, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Two primary school classes in Thessaloniki were suspended due to a large number of Covid-9 infections among the pupils, the Ministry of Education announced on Wednesday. These are the first classes that close down due to the pandemic, just eight days after the start of the new school season …
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September 21, 2021
Social, Society
A 2-year-old toddler was left in a kindergarten school for over five hours in the seaside resort of Varkiza in south-eastern Athens. The girl’s parents filed a lawsuit against those in charge of the kindergarten, including the bus driver and those monitoring the children transfer. The child is thought to …
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September 20, 2021
Very Mix
Gamers turned the gaming space into a “battlefield” and destroyed dozens of PC screens at the end of the Gameathlon during the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair. The ‘smashing event’ was the highlight of the end of both the Gameathlon and the 85th TIF on Sunday. According to local news website …
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September 17, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A public prosecutor in Thessaloniki has opened an investigation against a priest who is allegedly advising church goers not to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The inquiry opened after a local news website reported on the priest, whome the parishioners denounced a “anti-vaxxer.” Citing local parishioners and residents, the story reports …
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September 12, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Αnti-vaxxers clashed with police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, outside the premises of Thessaloniki International Fair where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis delivered an important speech that included economic police measures. Hundreds of protesters against Covid-19 vaccination, among them also families with children, gathered in downtown Thessaloniki on Saturday afternoon. At some …
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August 23, 2021
FEATURED, Social
A 55-year-old woman was beaten and stabbed to death by her partner in a suburb of eastern Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, on Monday. It is the ninth femicide in the country since the beginning of 2021 and the third in the month of August. The body of the woman was found …
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August 23, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Employees at the Emergency Ambulance Service (EKAV) in Thesaloniki held a protest on Monday morning against the compulsory vaccination of health workers and the measure of suspended work for the unvaccinated. The president of the workers’ union of Central Macedonia Prodromos Devletoglou stressed that a total of 170 EKAB employees …
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August 9, 2021
Very Mix
A 46-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki on Monday for involvement in a terrorist group, “Revolutionary Self-defense”, tied to attacks at PASOK and the Mexican and French embassies. The man, identified only by his initials (D.Ch.), was arrested shortly after robbery at an Alpha Bank branch in the northern Greek …
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June 30, 2021
Archeology, Culture
Greece’s highest administrative court, the Council of State (CoS), has given the green light for the temporary removal and repositioning of the antiquities unearthed during excavation work for the Thessaloniki metro in northern Greece. With the majority of a single vote (13-12) the judges of the CoS approved the removal …
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June 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A foreign national who arrived in Greece four days ago has been intubated in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Thessaloniki. The 65-year-old tourist arrived in northern Greece with negative molecular PCR test on May 29. He was admitted to ICU on Tuesday, June 1. When he sought …
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May 25, 2021
Politics, World
The United States Embassy in Athens hung a Black Lives Matter banner on Tuesday, marking the one-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd. “We raise this banner in honor of George Floyd, murdered one year ago today, in solidarity with people around the globe seeking a world without racial …
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May 25, 2021
Economy, FEATURED
An investment that will total six million euros for the production of initially industrial and then medical cannabis, which will be exported mainly to Europe and Israel, is underway in the coastal area of Epanomi, Thessaloniki, by a business group consisting of Israeli private investors, state run news agency amna …
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May 24, 2021
environment, FEATURED
Τhe public prosecutor of Thessaloniki filed a case against the general manager of Ippokratio hospital for discarding mattresses and rubble to the river Gallikos, a NATURA 2000 protected wetland, beginning of the year. Τhe issue turned into ping-pong ball between the Hospital and the Municipality and led to tragic-comic situations. …
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April 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, Economy, FEATURED
They opened their stores and hanged black flags, banners and funeral announcements. They turned on the lights and stood at the entrance doors of their empty shops. Retailers in Thessaloniki, Patras and Kozani did not accept customers as this would risk a 3,000 euros fine for them and 300 for …
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April 3, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Friday evening, Greek television channels were showing retail store owners in Thessaloniki zealously preparing their shops for the re-opening on Monday. Friday night, the smiles disappeared and optimism was replaced by anger. At an extraordinary meeting a couple of hours in between, the country’s epidemiologists had decided that the virus …
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March 10, 2021
Refugees
Greece’s fire department says three migrants have been found dead following a fire in an abandoned building in the center of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. The three men, believed to have been from Algeria, had been living on the third floor of the abandoned building. Firefighters said the …
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February 26, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The public prosecutor of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, investigates complaints according to which children with special needs at two institutions in the city did not receive Covid-19 vaccinations; 24 people were inoculated instead, bypassing the priority list of the national program. The scandal touches also two elected officials at the Municipality …
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February 23, 2021
Greece
Greek police on Monday stripped a protesting student, forced him to lie on the ground, stepped on his chest and then tear gassed him. The footage below was taken at the campus of the University of Thessaloniki on Monday afternoon, where students gathered to protest the new Education law allowing …
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February 14, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Two mega vaccination centers are scheduled on open their gates in Athens and Thessaloniki on Monday, February 15, 2021. The centers aim to ramp up the number of daily inoculations. The vaccination center in Maroussi suburb of northern Athens is housed in the Helexpo exhibition hall. It will operate from …
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February 12, 2021
Greece, Politics
The Public Prosecutor of Thessaloniki ordered investigation by the internal affairs department of Greek Police after riot policemen were filmed to hit a citizen in the face with the elbow and kick him, while they moved with baton against another one. The incident took place in the center of the …
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