Farkadona

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the town of Farkadona in Thessaly on Monday, a year after the area was devastated by storm Daniel.

During his visit, he met with the Farkadona Reconstruction Committee at the town hall and toured the local primary school, which is being reconstructed after the floods.

The Ministry of Rural Development and Food estimates that damage caused by the Daniel weather system to crop and animal production on the Thessaly Plain, a region famous for its agricultural production, will be three times worse than that which resulted from Ianos in 2020.

Some 73,000 hectares across Thessaly are under water, with 50,000-55,000 sown with cotton. 

Police have have redoubled their efforts to trace Spyros Dravilas, a 34-year-old being sought in connection with armed robberies involving jailed Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis, after an investigation pointed to Dravilas?s involvement in a heist last Thursday on a bank branch in the small town of Farkadona, near Trikala, central Greece.