Thessaloniki

A 36-year-old man, previously convicted of trafficking migrants, was arrested in the northern city of Thessaloniki for allegedly abusing the nine-year-old nephew of his former partner in March 2021. 

A 28-year-old Greek woman was arrested for lighting up a cigarette in the toilet of the aircraft during a flight from London to Thessaloniki on Wednesday morning.

She was arrested upon her arrival at the northern Greek city's airport by police on charges she violated the express orders of the airplane's captain.

Tens of thousands of people marched in Athens and cities across Greece on Wednesday to protest the deaths of 57 people in the country's worst train disaster , which exposed significant rail safety deficiencies.

Thousands of workers will join a nationwide strike on Wednesday in protest over Greece's deadliest train disaster that killed 57 people, and mass demonstrations are expected to culminate outside parliament in Athens.

Photo: People lght candles in honor of the 57 victims of Greece's deadliest train crash, during a protest in front of Parliament in Athens, Greece, 03 March 2023. The collision between a passenger train traveling north and a freight train traveling south on the same line occurred on 28 February night. EPA-EFE/GEORGE VITSARAS

The tax authorities are increasing the pressure on state debtors through the creation of two new Centers for Certification and Collection of Debts (KEBEIS) in Athens and Thessaloniki as it accelerates the procedures for debt certification and collection.

When the two centers are launched, the judicial departments at all tax offices will be abolished.

The official confirmed death toll of the Tempe rail crash rose to 57 late on Thursday night, with 56 passengers still missing according to the latest release by the Hellenic Fire Service.

We wake up once more asking ourselves: "How did this happen?" And again we hear of tragic shortages and oversights. As the head of the union of drivers at Hellenic Train SA, Kostas Genidounias, lamented on Wednesday: "Nothing works; everything is done manually. Even the light signals don't work. If they did, the drivers would have seen the red signals and stopped in time."

An appeals court in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Monday upheld a prior prison sentence of 15 years and eight months handed to a 40-year-old man who shot his neighbor dead after the victim complained about loud music.

After seven postponements, the trial began on Friday over the attack on the former mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, during the commemoration of the Genocide of the Pontians in May 2018 in White Tower Square.