Agios Dimitrios

The Prime Minister visited Agios Dimitrios - "There is no other governance proposal today, because we are talking about how we will change the country and their only concern is how Mitsotakis will fall."

Members of the student associations of Athens occupied the Rectorate of the University of Athens on Thursday, as protests around the country mount in response to a government bill allowing the establishment of private universities.

Seven people were arrested in southern Athens on Monday in a large police operation to smash an organised crime syndicate involved in extortions and violence against business owners. 

Polykleitos Rengos (1903-1984) is the subject of an exhibition at the Byzantine Museum (byzantinemuseum.gr) that casts light on his important contribution to the reintroduction of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine tradition in religious painting.

Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrisohoidis called on the people of Patras to celebrate the city's patron saint at home on Monday and avoid social gatherings that could spread the coronavirus.

A 33-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in the southern Athens suburb of Aghios Dimitrios in connection with 44 supermarket robberies across Attica.

The suspect, a Ukrainian national, committed the robberies over a period of five months. He was remanded in custody on Wednesday after appearing before a prosecutor.

A 37-year-old woman and her four-year-old son were killed in a fire that broke out in their home in the Athens suburb of Aghios Dimitrios on Easter Sunday.

Firefighters rushed to the scene after reports of thick smoke billowing from the building. Firemen recovered the woman and boy from the house and ambulance transferred them to the hospital but they were declared dead on arrival.

‘Protothema.gr’ has released the video of the engagement between the Greek gunboat ‘Akteoros’ and a Turkish patrol boat in the Aegean Sea. Earlier on Good Friday, a Turkish patrol boat threatened to arrest the crew of Greek fishing boat ‘Agios Dimitrios’ claiming it was in Turkish waters.