Yiannis Boutaris

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris on Friday announced his intention to run for a third term in office in the local elections in May next year.

Boutaris announced his plans to city officials, saying that "I will be mayor until I'm 100."

A twelfth suspect was identified by Greek police on Saturday in connection to a mob attack against Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris on May 19.

The 22-year-old Greek national will face charges of verbal assault and disturbing the peace.

Just a few hours after Council of State judges in Athens issued a statement concerning an attack by the Rouvikonas anti-establishment group on the Athens premises of the country's highest administrative court, judges at a misdemeanors court in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, released three of the men who attacked the city's mayor, Yiannis Boutaris, last weekend.

United-Nations brokered talks between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the latter's name are "crucial" and "sensitive," Prime Minister Alexis Tsiras said on Friday.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was in Thessaloniki on Friday, where he met with the northern port city's mayor, Yiannis Boutaris, less that a week after the latter was attacked by a mob of far-right nationalists during an event marking a historical anniversary.

A 44-year-old local police officer has been identified as being among three more suspects believed to have been involved in last weekend's violent attack on Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris.

According to sources, the 44-year-old was stripped of his weapon in 2015 and assigned to desk duty after failing to pass the force's psychiatric evaluation.

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris has urged authorities to find the instigators behind the "footmen" carrying out attacks like that on him last Saturday by far-right extremists during a public ceremony.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis dismissed on Wednesday a threat against him posted on social media by anarchist group Rouvikonas, saying he is unfazed by the comment.

A misdemeanors court in Thessaloniki on Wednesday found three people guilty over a mob attack against city mayor Yiannis Boutaris last weekend, which resulted in his brief hospitalization.

Four males, aged between 17 and 36, punching and kicking a 75-year-old man, who is a top city official and of fragile health (Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris recently had heart surgery). It was a despicable spectacle that played out on TV and computer screens around the world. The nationalist thugs who carried out the attack should be ashamed of themselves.