Kalamaria

Christos Staikouras spoke on Friday morning from one of the stations of the Thessaloniki Metro, which will start operating in a few days.

Following decades of delays, the main line of the Thessaloniki Metro will definitely start operating in November, Ministry of Infrastructure officials said Tuesday.

But the extension to the suburb of Kalamaria will be further delayed and will not open until the end of 2025, they said.

Two suspects, a woman aged 37 and a man, 36, are facing hate crime charges in the northern port city of Thessaloniki after assaulting a fellow bus passenger because of her race.

The incident took place on Monday morning when the victim, identified as a 23-year-old Congolese national, was riding a bus in the Thessaloniki suburb of Kalamaria.

A body was found in the Thermaic Gulf in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Sunday. The corpse was discovered floating in the water near the Kalamaria marina, approximately 7 kilometers southeast of the city center.

Coast guard officers retrieved the body, and authorities are currently awaiting the results of a forensic examination.

Greece's privatization agency TAIPED plans to open, or reopen, bids for several marinas in the coming months. 

The most important one is the Kalamaria marina, about 7 kilometers southeast of the northern city of Thessaloniki, because it is very close to an area, the Halkidiki Peninsula, with very heavy tourist traffic and a lack of modern marinas. 

Authorities in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, said on Tuesday that they have identified five individuals from among a larger group that barged into an art gallery and demanded, with the use of threats, that the exhibition it was showing be taken down.

Sergej Andreevski, the artist from North Macedonia whose exhibition in a municipal gallery in the Thessaloniki suburb of Kalamaria was disrupted last week by a far-right group, released a statement to the media Monday thanking the municipality, Greek authorities, the public "who stood by art" and commenting on the place of art in today's world.

The full statement follows:

Members of the youth wing of the far-right Greek group Golden Dawn, with masks on their faces, on Wednesday night broke into an exhibition of the fine artist Sergej Andreevski from North Macedonia, held in the gallery of the Thessaloniki municipality of Kalamaria. They verbally attacked the artist and bragged later on the internet that they had shut down the exhibition.

A Thessaloniki prosecutor has ordered a preliminary investigation into an incident in the city where a group of masked youths stormed into a municipal gallery exhibiting the work of an artist from North Macedonia, harassed the artist and the staff and ordered them to pull down the works.

About 10 black-clad individuals belonging to a far-right group barged into a municipal gallery in Thessaloniki exhibiting the work of an artist from North Macedonia, harassed the artist and the staff and ordered them to pull down the works.