Glyfada

Workers began dismantling a cemetery in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada on Friday that was built illegally by the local municipality.

The cemetery was established on the slopes of Mount Hymettus in 2011 but only a few burials took place before authorities stepped in.

A 22-year-old man alleged to have confessed to killing a 41-year-old homeless woman in Glyfada, southern Athens, as a “sacrifice to Satan” on Easter Sunday was to be transferred to the psychiatric unit of Attica’s high-security Korydallos Prison on Thursday after testifying before a prosecutor and an investigating magistrate.

A 22-year-old man will be facing an Athens prosecutor on Tuesday after allegedly confessing to killing a 41-year-old homeless woman in the coastal suburb of Glyfada on April 20 as a "sacrifice to Satan."

The tram was running normally again in Athens on Wednesday after the completion of engineering works.

Services had been disrupted for several days due to works between the Glyfada Town Hall and Asklipeio Hospital stops in southern Athens.

Trams bound for the southern Athenian suburb of Voula from Syntagma Square in the city center and the Peace and Friendship Stadium (SEF) near Piraeus will terminate at Glyfada’s old city hall on Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 p.m. until the end of the shift.

The change is due to maintenance work being carried out on the track from the Glyfada stop to the Askleipio terminus in Voula.

The Municipality of Glyfada insisted on Thursday that a cemetery it opened in 2011 is perfectly legal and indicated that it would defy a central government order to dig up and remove the bodies that had been buried there as well a demolishing a small chapel.

Authorities were questioning a 34-year-old man over the weekend in connection to the fatal stabbing of his 59-year-old mother in Glyfada, southern Athens, late on Thursday.

The Venetis 1948 bakery chain has invested 3 million euros in a big new outlet in a neoclassical building on Omonia Square in the center of Athens that covers a surface area of 1,200 square meters.

By Nikos Roussanoglou