Halandri

The Municipality of Halandri in northern Athens has hailed the ruling by the Council of State against the transfer of the Parnitha casino to the nearby suburb of Maroussi (at the Dilaveri estate) as a major victory.

According to the information so far the well-known lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos was shot at his office in Asklepios Street 154, by two men wearing full-face balaclavas a few minutes after 7:30′ local time.

Sources report that Michalis Zafeiropoulos has been killed.

The Rematia Theater in the northeastern Athens suburb of Halandri has been destroyed, possibly in an arson attack.

The former mayor of Halandri, Grigoris Zafeiropoulos, is due to stand trial on Wednesday accused of failing to take down a billboard frame on Kifissias Avenue into which a 21-year-old driver crashed his car and died in August 2009.

The Regional Administration for Attica, which is part of the central government, on Wednesday provided the Municipality of Halandri with a list of 16 locations that Roma currently living in a camp next to the Nomismatokopeio metro station can move to.

Earlier this month, authorities knocked down uninhabited shacks at the camp but met resistance in their efforts to move the Roma.

Police were called in on Wednesday to ensure that public administration inspectors in Thessaloniki could carry out checks on the work contracts of local authority employees.

Authorities on Wednesday went ahead with the contentious demolition of 12 uninhabited residences at a Roma camp in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri but have postponed the relocation of dozens of residents to a new site west of the capital amid reactions.

A Roma encampment that has stood just off Mesogeion Avenue behind the present-day Nomismatokopio metro station for the best part of 40 years is set for demolition on Tuesday, with residents of the settlement trying to block the operation from going ahead and resisting orders to evacuate.