Aspropyrgos

Four rights groups have submitted a motion to sue with a Supreme Court prosecutor over a spate of recent attacks against migrant workers in the industrial town of Aspropyrgos, west of Athens.

Three separate attacks on migrant workers living in the industrial town of Aspropyrgos near Athens were reported on Monday, as rights groups said there has been a spike in racially motivated assaults in recent months.

Greece faces a fine of at least 17 million euros for failing to comply with European Union wastewater treatment regulations at the Thriaseio Plain in western Attica.

The European Commission has proposed that Greece should face additional fines for every day that it fails to get the facilities serving the towns of Elefsina, Aspropyrgos, Magoula and Mandra up to scratch.

The European Commission is seeking to slap Greece with a fine of more than 16 million euros for failure to comply with waste-water treatment regulations at the Thriasio Plain in western Attica. Greece will also face additional fines for every day that it fails to get the facilities serving the towns of Elefsina, Aspropyrgos, Magoula and Mandra up to scratch.

The Greek Health Ministry advised the city of Aspropyrgos, west Attica, to close down following a blaze at a recycling facility broke out on Saturday. Kindergartens and schools on Wednesday shut down due to air pollution from the plant as well as dangerous toxic fumes released by the fire on its fifth day ablaze.

Minister Delegate for Relations with Romanians Abroad Angel Tilvar, at the headquarters of Romania's Embassy to the Hellenic Republic met leaders of the Romanian associative environment of Athens, Aspropyrgos and Thessaloniki, as well as Romanian language mass media representatives.

Photo credit: (c) Silviu MATEI / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Greece's Parliament on Tuesday voted to lift the immunity from prosecution of Ilias Kasidiaris, an MP and spokesman for far-right Golden Dawn, currently on trial for constituting a criminal organization.

Kasidiaris, who is one of the defendants in the ongoing trial, may also now face prosecution on charges of inciting criminal acts.

Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is on Thursday to forward to Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani the details of five mayors who have refused to provide the government with data for the evaluation of civil servants.