Kifissia

Many Athenians woke up to a blanket of snow on Monday morning, as the cold front "Medea" that swept into Greece on Saturday affected most parts of the country and particularly higher altitudes.

In the capital, snowfall came early in the morning and blanketed northern suburbs like Kifissia, Ekali and Melissia, while also giving a dusting to the downtown area.

A policeman who is accused of shooting and killing his estranged wife and her colleague on Wednesday afternoon outside a super market in northern Athens was charged with intensional manslaughter and illegal use of a firearm on Thursday.

Three Roma men were arrested on Tuesday by police after a car chase on Kifissias Avenue from the northern suburb of Maroussi to Kifissia.

After residential properties, it is the turn of modern office spaces in Athens to record major hikes in their rental rates.

According to the latest report by Geoaxis Property & Valuation Services, at the start of the year the average increase amounted to 8 percent from a year earlier, and in several cases the hikes were even higher.

Trains in Greece went out of service for a second day on Thursday, as the Panhellenic Federation of Railway Workers (POS) said talks with Italian-owned railway service operator Trainees and its rolling stock maintenance provider, Rosco, over their collective labor agreement yielded no results.

A 30-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of a Greek businessman in Athens in April last year was extradited to Greece from Belgium.
Greek authorities had issued a European arrest warrant for the suspect, charging him of murder, robberies, thefts, being a member of a criminal gang and other crimes. He was arrested in Belgium  in February.

More and more candidate buyers are turning to the property market in the northern suburbs of Athens because they cannot or will not match the increased demands of apartment sellers in the city center or the southern suburbs.

Traffic will be diverted on parts of Kifissias Avenue, one of the capital's main thoroughfares, from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m. until June 13 due to works, which began on Monday, for the installation of a fiber optics network.

Traffic will flow normally on May 31 and June 2.

There will also be traffic disruption in the wider area of Kifissia in northern Athens for the same reason. 

Unknown assailants blew up two cash machines in the Athens suburb of Kifissia and in Kalyvia in eastern Attica but failed in both instances to retrieve any money.
According to reports, the explosion in Kifissia occurred at 3.50 a.m., while the one in Kalyvia occurred about half an hour later.

Police are investigating.
 

The 65th annual Kifissia Flower Show is under way in the leafy northern Athenian suburb, inviting residents of the Greek capital to spruce up their balconies and gardens, exchange ideas with growers and aficionados, and ask for advice and tips. The municipal event, which dates back to 1937, takes place in the park stretching between the Kifissia ISAP train station and the bus terminus.