Ermioni

Yannis Rossopoulos boards the last ship leaving Piraeus' Gate E8 for the islands of the Saronic Gulf on the evening of July 6. His destination is Ermioni, a small port town on the Argolida peninsula, where he will spend the entire summer season working as a cook in a five-star hotel. He rolls a cigarette on the small deck, before the ship sets sail.

A 77-year-old woman's body was recovered from sea in the Ermioni area of Argolida, southern Greece on Tuesday. 

According to the Greece Coast Guard, the woman was transferred to a local clinic were she was pronounced dead. 

The cause of her death has yet to be determined.

An incident of animal killing has been documented in the northern Peloponnese resort of Ermioni.

As reported by the public broadcaster ERT, a 75-year-old man used a rifle to shoot and fatally wound a shepherd dog.

Consequently, he was apprehended following a report made by a 42-year-old resident from the same village. Moreover, the rifle and two cartridges were confiscated.

A municipal court in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese in southern Greece has found a 40-year-old cleric from Ermionida guilty of sending lewd video material to a 13-year-old, in a case that shocked the nation when it was first publicized a few weeks ago. 

As Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Easter on Sunday, a town on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula observed the holy day by burning an effigy of Judas at sea.

The ritual burning of Judas is a custom also observed by Roman Catholics in parts of Latin America as a symbolic punishment for Judas' betrayal of Christ for a monetary reward.

A 60-year-old man from Karditsa, central Greece, trapped a cat in a home-made cage in the yard of his home before spearing it with a harpoon, according to local reports.

According to Thessaliatv.gr, Ermioni Gianakkou, a representative of the animal rights groups Diasozo (I save) visited the scene of the attack and said the cat had been speared through the stomach.

State privatization fund TAIPED has secured revenues of 8.8 million euros from sale and lease transactions for properties in Greece on the e-Auction online platform.

Two buildings in Patra and Nafplio, a hotel in Athens, a plot in the Volos Industrial Zone and three plots near Ermioni in the Peloponnese have been sold while farmland near Tripoli, in the Peloponnese, has been leased.

Three fishermen died off the coast of Ermioni in the eastern Peloponnese on Tuesday morning after their boat capsized.

The two Egyptians aged 32 and 55, and a 56-year-old Greek, were part of a crew of five. The other two fishermen were rescued by colleagues working nearby and have been taken to a local medical center for tests.

By Vangelis Mandravelis

State bailout fund TAIPED is moving ahead with its plans for the utilization of three major state properties, the Olympic facilities at Galatsi and Markopoulo and the Sambariza property at Ermioni, all in Attica.