Megara

Nicolas Cage is in Greece, specifically in Megara, for the needs of his new movie titled “The Carpenter’s Son.”

By August 21, the platform for support measures for fire victims in Attica will be open, said Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Christos Triantopoulos, on Wednesday morning.

Residents in two areas near Athens were ordered to evacuate on Sunday as dozens of firefighters battled to contain blazes fuelled by strong winds and hot temperatures.

The wildfire tearing through southern Viotia and West Attica since Monday has reached the outskirts of the town of Megara, with local officials appealing for assistance.

A fire broke out near the town of Megara in Attica on Wednesday afternoon. According to information available to Kathimerini, the fire broke out in a wooded area in a gorge and no residential areas are under threat.

The Hellenic Fire Service announced that 35 firefighters, nine vehicles and two aircraft are operating to put the fire out.

Responding to the new conditions and challenges that have been created in Attica and its peculiar ecosystems in recent years, the Environmental Association of Athens-Piraeus Municipalities has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the ANIMA animal care center for the more effective protection of wildlife.

Firefighters intensified water drops using planes and helicopters before nightfall on May 20 after a wildfire west of Athens forced hundreds to flee their homes and sent a huge cloud of smoke and ash over the capital, obscuring the view of the Acropolis.

A racket that was peddling vast quantities of heroin from Iran was unraveled this week after a series of raids conducted across Attica.
Police said on Wednesday that five foreign nationals, aged 28, 31, 31, 35 and 53, were arrested and that they seized 45 kilos of heroin and a pistol during raids conducted in Ilion, Zofria, Kypseli, Dafni and Sepolia on Tuesday.

An Athens prosecutor has brought charges against Attica Regional Governor Rena Dourou and another nine officials in connection with the flash floods in Mandra, western Attica, in November 2017 which resulted in the deaths of 25 people and the destruction of hundreds of properties.

A group of between four to six robbers drove a car into a bank branch in the town of Megara, west Attica, early Thursday morning and removed an automatic teller machine (ATM), Greek broadcaster Skai reported.

The suspects, who had their faces covered, loaded the ATM on a second vehicle they had parked outside and fled.