Komotini

The U.S. Embassy in Athens, for the fifth consecutive year, is bringing contemporary dance to five high schools in Komotini and five high schools in Athens. In collaboration with the Onassis Cultural Center and with support from the Municipality of Komotini, the embassy announced its support to the “Dancing to Connect” educational program.

A 15-year-old Roma boy on Wednesday faced a prosecutor in Komotini, northern Greece, charged with the sexual assault and murder of a 6-year-old deaf boy, also a member of the local Roma community.

Authorities have not yet managed to get the deposition of the 15-year-old as he is also deaf. An interpreter is due to arrive in Komotini on Friday.

A coroner on Tuesday concluded that a 6-year-old boy found dead in an abandoned house in Komotini, northern Greece, was sexually assaulted before he was strangled to death.

Police in Komotini, northern Greece, on Monday detained a 15-year-old member of the local Roma community after he allegedly admitted to killing a 6-year-old boy who went missing from a Roma settlement on Sunday night.

The youth led investigators to the body of the 6-year-old at a derelict house, according to local reports which said the boy had been bound hand and foot.

A 6-year-old deaf boy who went missing from a Roma settlement in Komotini, northern Greece, on Sunday night was found dead on Monday, according to local police sources, who said foul play appeared to be involved.

A coroner was to examine the body on Monday night.

One of the articles included in the constitutional amendments jointly proposed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) centers on who is eligible to be elected as president.  

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Friday that the coexistence of Christians and Muslims in Thrace is cause for optimism in the face of new challenges the world is faced with.

Tsipras made his remarks during a visit with Education Minister Costas Gavroglou to a state-run music school in the town of Komotini, northeastern Greece, which is attended by students of both faiths.

Authorities in Komotini, northeastern Greece, have arrested four Bulgarian nationals in connection to an illegal adoption. Those arrested are the baby's biological mother and father, aged 32 and 36 respectively, a 41-year-old Bulgarian woman with whom the couple stayed in Greece, and another Bulgarian woman, aged 37, who accompanied the mother to hospital in Katerini for the birth.

A civil servant working for a state-run veterinary service in the town of Komotini, in northeastern Greece, has been suspended and will face a disciplinary committee for allegedly taking bribes on a regular basis, the Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday.

The decision, taken by Agriculture Minister Vangelis Apostolou, follows the civil servant's indictment by a local prosecutor.

Violent episodes occurred on Wednesday morning in Komotini between Greek farmers and the police.

The farmers were gathered outside the building of the Regional Unit of Rodopi where Minister of Rural Development Vangelis Apostolou was. They asked him to come out and discuss, but he refused.