Xanthi

A police officer in the northeastern prefecture of Xanthi has been charged with manslaughter through negligence after confessing to running over a 19-year-old woman who later died of head injuries.

The woman was run over by a police car last week in the village of Palaio Zygo in Xanthi and died in hospital on Tuesday.

The Olympia Group, founded by Panos Germanos, has donated medical and technological equipment valued at two million euros to the ministries of education and health, to assist in the fight against Covid-19.

The donation will be made through the Group's subsidiaries, Public- MediaMarkt and Sunlight.

All top three teams on the Super League table scored hard-fought away victories over the weekend, but questions are growing over the use of the video assistant referee (VAR) system that has raised great controversy in the first weeks of its application in the domestic game.

The government has submitted legislation to Parliament that will oblige the early retirement of two government-appointed muftis in the Greek border region of Western Thrace.

AEK's slip-up at Larissa on Saturday left PAOK alone in second, one point behind Super League leader Olympiakos, as both the Thessaloniki and Piraeus giants scored easy home wins on Sunday. Yet the weekend's best match was at Ioannina.

Larissa held AEK to a goalless draw at home to remain ninth at the table, while AEK dropped to third on 38 points.

PAOK is the new leader of the Super League after AEK dropped two points at nine-man Xanthi away on Sunday.

Host PAOK had an easy afternoon beating promoted Lamia 4-0 through an Aleksandar Prijovic brace and goals from Marin Leovac and Dimitris Pelkas.

Syriza?s Western Thracian deputies Ayhan Karayusuf and Hüseyin Zeybek are both hopeful of solving Greece?s minority problems, pledging to tear down the ?wall of shame?

By George Georgakopoulos

Apollon followed Aris to the second division and Xanthi will contest a relegation play-off, as the end of the regular season of the Super League on Sunday produced predictable results that also included defeats for PAOK and Panathinaikos.

By George Georgakopoulos

Aris has been mathematically relegated from the Super League after its home loss to Ergotelis on Wednesday, while Olympiakos suffered its third league loss this year, going down at Asteras Tripolis.