Lambros Tsongas

A prosecutor on Monday ordered an urgent investigation into a firebomb attack against a riot police unit that had been guarding the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki on Saturday night which caused serious damage but no injuries.

The regional governor for central Macedonia, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, and local mayors were to meet on Monday with a first instance prosecutor in Thessaloniki over a rupture in the northern port's water supply pipeline that left much of the city without water for five days.

A prosecutor in Thessaloniki has demanded the arrest of all the "protagonists" in a violent incident outside an elementary school on Monday, sparked by a group protesting the attendance of nine migrant children from a nearby refugee camp.