Domokos

Ilias Kasidiaris, the imprisoned former deputy leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, was sworn-in as an Athens municipal councilor on Friday.

Ilias Kasidiaris, the jailed former deputy leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, is slated to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of the new municipal authority next week. The ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Kypseli Municipal Market in central Athens on Thursday.

Self-styled anarchists barged into the building housing the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Tuesday, chanting slogans expressing support with jailed terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

Epaminondas Korkoneas, a police special guard convicted for the deadly shooting in December 2008 of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia, was on Tuesday released from the high-security prison in Domokos, near Lamia in central Greece.

A village was safely evacuated in central Greece on Wednesday as flames aproached the yards of houses in one of the four separate blazes which started at the same time in different areas of the regional unit of Lamia.

The Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) has launched an investigation into the damage caused to electric cables on a section of the line between Lianokladi and Domokos in central Greece, which was spotted before it could cause an accident. 

Officials at state-controlled railway company OSE said on Thursday they are looking into the damage caused to electric cables on the railway section between Lianokladi and Domokos in central Greece, which were found cut.

A brawl between inmates reportedly took place at a high-security prison in Domokos, near Lamia in central Greece, on Christmas Day.

According to local media reports, a 34-year-old Turkish inmate, who is serving time for a migrant smuggling conviction, was injured in the face with a sharp object.

It was not clear how many people took part in the brawl.

When it comes to issues of national significance, how they are presented and by whom is always important, particularly if that person is in a responsible position. Naturally such issues are rich fodder for the media and are propagated with alarming speed, usually under catchy titles, but this serves no purpose in solving the real problem.

A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for murdering the warden of Domokos Prison in central Greece three months ago.

Makis Galimanis was gunned down outside his home in Lamia in February in a drive-by shooting.