Amfissa

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday presented a program of 540 projects with a budget of 4.2 billion euros for the region of Central Greece, including key motorway and rail upgrades.

A search on Monday afternoon in a cell and a communal area of the Amfissa Detention Centre, in central Greece, turned up a makeshift knife with a 8.3-centimetre blade, as well as cellphones and bootleg alcohol.

Prison guards six cellphones and seven chargers, 11 hands-free and six little of illicit alcohol.

The prison informed police and a prosecutor about the finds.

Firemen trying to extinguish a car blaze on the Amfissa-Prosilio highway in central Greece found a body inside, according to a press release by the fire service on Tuesday.
Authorities have not yet identified the victim and no details were available as to the cause of the fire. 

A local community in the Fokida region in central Greece was reeling on Friday after the revelation that a mentally disabled 16-year-old was impregnated by her father.

According to reports, the girl, who lives with her family in Itea, was found to be pregnant after she was rushed to a hospital in the town of Amfissa suffering from stomach pains.

"It is like a small Benaki," Delphi Mayor Thanasis Panayiotopoulos said referring to the emblematic Athenian museum when describing its lesser-known counterpart in Chrisso, one of the prettiest villages in the region of Fokida in the foothills of Mount Parnassos.

The olive-growing area of Amfissa at the foot of the world-famous 4th-century BC Delphi Sanctuary in central Greece, is to become a global ambassador for olives and olive products thanks to a proposal by Greek scientists that has been endorsed by Yale University.

The 34-year-old butcher who turned himself in on Monday for the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old Roma girl last week in Amfissa, central Greece, was transferred to the Korydallos maximum-security prison in Athens Thursday pending trial.

The unnamed man drove out to a Roma camp near Amfissa on June 4 and shot the 13-year-old, who was standing beside his intended victim.

Police in the central Greek town of Amfissa have beefed up security amid fears of reprisals around a 34-year-old shepherd who reportedly turned himself into the police on Monday night in connection with the shooting death last week of a 13-year-old Roma girl.

Fokida, situated only a few hours away from Athens, constitutes an exceptionally gifted, rough and at the same time warm and hospitable land. Such unprecedented and unspoiled natural beauty is generously encountered throughout the whole region not only at mounts Giona, Vardousia and Oiti, but also at Mornos lake and at its gorgeous beaches!

Farmers from central Greece decided to toughen their stance and are already on their way to Athens-Lamia motorway in order to close the road at the 200km at Bralos interchange.

Seventy tractors are already at the spot and have closed the entrances and exits to the motorway blocking the traffic to all vehicles to and from Bralos and Amfissa.