Moschato
Fire breaks outs in abandoned Athens building
A fire broke out at an abandoned building in Athens' Moschato neighborhood on Friday, the fire service has reported.
The blazing building on Artemidos Street prompted the response of 18 firefighters and six fire engines as well as a hook-and-ladder truck.
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Dozens of old church icons retrieved
Police located and seized 56 old church icons and arrested a 43-year-old man and a 74-year-old woman, accused of violating legislation for the protection of antiquities and cultural heritage.
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Dozens of historically significant religious icons recovered by police
Experts have confirmed that at least 20 religious icons from a haul of more than 50 seized by the police in Athens on Wednesday are historically significant and protected by cultural heritage laws.
The icons were seized in the southern Athens suburb of Moschato from a 43-year-old man who claimed to have acquired them from a woman, aged 74, who has also been arrested.
Celtic Music Festival | Athens | December 8-10
Singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and fiddler Dónal O'Connor, two prominent figures in Irish traditional music, will be among the Irish acts performing at the 6th Athens Celtic Music Festival, which takes place over three days at the Athina Live venue (3 Poseidonos Ave., Moschato).
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Molotov cocktails thrown by minors after student rivalry
An incident of violence occurred on Thursday at the 2nd High School of Moschato in southwestern Athens when a group of about ten people carried out an attack with Molotov cocktails.
Around 2 p.m. on Thursday, three Molotov cocktails were thrown, while only one exploded.
No injuries were recorded, while the police arrested eight minors for violating the arms law.
Three minors arrested after throwing bulky objects off a terrace in Moschato
Three minors, aged 15, 16, and 14, were arrested for damage to private property and complicit bodily harm in the late hours of August 31 by Greek police officers.
Officers involved in deadly pedestrian crash released
Two police officers detained after hitting and killing a pedestrian with their patrol car in southern Athens on Wednesday were released, state-run broadcaster ERT reported Thursday.
According to eye-witness testimonies, no evidence emerged that they had run a red traffic light, ERT said, though the official investigation is still under way.
A rebetiko sensation with a laika heart
Apostolos Nikolaidis started working in construction at the age of 13, singing as he climbed the scaffolding. "Give us another song," the other workmen would shout when he stopped. As a teenager in Thessaloniki, he sang along to the bouzouki played by other boys in the neighborhood, before sneaking off to Athens with dreams of becoming a professional singer.
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Local authorities request realty tax cuts
The continuation of large deviations in the taxable property rates (known as objective values) in relation to the actual prices in the market makes the objective value review process that has already started in several municipalities more difficult.
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Municipalities clash with regional authority over Faliro Bay project
A war has erupted between the southern Athens municipalities of Moschato-Tavros and Kallithea and the Attica Regional Authority over the redevelopment of Faliro Bay.