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As government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said, the Prime Minister will then go to Thessaloniki for the conference of the New Democracy party

Tens of thousands of men, women and youngsters took to the streets in Athens, Thessaloniki and other parts of Greece on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the country's deadliest rail disaster and protest what is perceived as a systematic attempt to obscure the circumstances of the tragedy and cover up responsibilities.

A Thessaloniki businessman has unveiled plans to plant a new forest in a northern suburb of the city.

Under the plans, presented by Stavros Andreadis to the mayor of Pavlos Melas, Dimitris Aslanidis, 300,000 trees will be planted on site of 300 hectares in the Efkarpia district.

In his lab in Alexandroupoli, northeastern Greece, coroner Pavlos Pavlidis has been receiving the bodies of migrants for two decades. Their remains are often trapped at the bottom of the Evros River for months. However, on August 22, he was called to a scorched hillside near the village of Avantas.

In the charred Greek landscape close to the border with Turkey, a group of blackened corpses lay amid the ashes of what was once a lush forest that offered migrants the perfect cover to cross into the European Union. Two of the dead found this week were children.

Eighteen people died in the village of Avantas in Evros, northeastern Greece, where fires raged on Tuesday for a fourth straight day, along with dozens of new blazes.

The victims, which included two children, are believed to be migrants who apparently had not been informed of the fire's progress.

A senior Golden Dawn member convicted over the 2013 murder of leftist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, among other crimes, was led away in handcuffs from Athens Appeals Court after hurling insults at Fyssas' mother.

Yiannis Lagos, a member of the European Parliament and among the party's highest cadres, said Magda Fyssa was a "professional" and told her to "f**k off."

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of The Netherlands will pay an official three-day visit to Greece on Sunday, following an invitation by Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

In recent days, the Parliament has been transformed into an arena, care of SYRIZA MP Pavlos Polakis, with conflicts beyond and outside any parliamentary precedent.

At the same time, the pandemic continues to rage, while Greek society is in a new shock from the murder of the 19-year-old for football team differences.

"Thessaloniki is changing its face and I believe that this is one of the reasons why it is gaining its own distinct development dynamics," said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, visiting the former "Pavlos Melas" army camp, which is being transformed into a metropolitan park.