Glyfada

A receipt led authorities to the arrest of a 31-year-old Bulgarian for the murder of Greek-Australian businessman John Macris, 47, in Voula, southern Athens, last October, police said Friday.
The receipt, for clothing, was found in a Glyfada hotel that the suspect, and his 33-year-old brother, had stayed in the night before the killing, Giorgos Kanellos, the Athens police chief, said.

The Hellenic Coast Guard on Wednesday launched an investigation following the discovery of a woman's body on the Asteria beach in Glyfada, southern Athens.
The woman, who was found some 10 meters from the water, was about 1.60 meter tall and between 80 and 90 kilograms with black hair.

Police in southern Athens on Thursday were investigating the death of a 70-year-old man who reportedly shot himself after trying to kill his partner.

The pair were rushed to the Asklipeio Hospital in the coastal suburb of Voula at around noon on Thursday with severe gunshot injuries, where doctors were unable to save the man.

A man who sustained serious injuries in a powerful blast on Friday morning at an open-air car park in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada has been identified as an Australian national.

A powerful explosion at an open-air car park rocked the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada on Friday morning, with initial reports saying that one person has been injured.

Police and firefighters have been dispatched to 128 Vouliagmenis Avenue and have closed down a large section of the thoroughfare as they manage the incident.

A report that a wheelchair-bound teenager was marooned at a pedestrian crossing for 45 minutes by an illegally parked car in Glyfada, southern Athens, caused a social media storm on Saturday.

Four women, aged between 17 and 34, faced an Athens prosecutor Tuesday after being caught in the act of breaking into a house in the affluent southern Athens suburb of Glyfada.

The four suspects were arrested by police after the person who lived at the property saw them trying to enter his home and telephoned the authorities.

She got into her car soon as she finished work on Tuesday afternoon, laden with donations made by friends and relatives, and headed out to the municipal indoor gymnasium of Rafina in eastern Attica. It was not the first time that Selena Gomez, a member of the Glyfada branch of the Greek Guiding Association had headed to a disaster site to help in day-after crisis management.

Seventy-one out of 323 beaches inspected by the Panhellenic Center for Ecological Research in the Greek capital's Attica region were found unfit for swimming, with low cleanliness scores going to popular spots like Loutsa, Oropos and Schinias.

Manchester-based electronic pioneers Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, aka the Chemical Brothers, come to Greece on September 8 with what they describe as a "mind-bending" new show.