Paraskevopoulos

Georgian national Roberto Sohakian, the suspect arrested immediately after the shooting death of a Thessaloniki jewelry shop owner this week, was recently released from prison under the so-called “Paraskevopoulos Law”, named after the SYRIZA justice minister whose signature graces the legislation.

Former Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) prime minister Alexis Tsipras has been in Thessaloniki since early Sunday morning ahead of a speech he is due to give at the 80th Thessaloniki International Trade Fair (TIF) in the evening. He was greeted at the Macedonian airport with limousines that transferred him and his associates to the TIF’s facilities.

Who’s who: Vassiliki Thanou

Greek Supreme Court president Vassiliki Thanou is the first female prime minister of Greece, serving as a caretaker premier for what will be roughly a month in office.

She was sworn in on Thursday.

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece decided Friday to launch a campaign against the extension to same-sex couples of a so-called cohabitation agreement which grants heterosexual couples living together similar rights to those who are married.

A day after Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Church of Greece, attacked cohabitation agreements as a ?poor imitation? of marriage, Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos defended the pact as well as plans to extend it to same-sex couples.

Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Church of Greece, on Wednesday slammed cohabitation agreements, which grant couples living together similar rights to those who are married, describing the pact as ?a poor imitation? of marriage.

Greek authorities feared a backlash on Wednesday following an Athens prosecutor?s proposal that a request by anarchist and convicted robber Nikos Romanos asking that he be allowed to attend classes at an Athens technical college (TEI) wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet be rejected.

The trial of Golden Dawn MPs and members is due to continue Thursday after its recent adjournment.

The resumption of the trial will coincide with a fresh protest by locals and activists who want the case moved from a special courtroom at Korydallos Prison.

 Group of leftist protesters try to burst into makeshift prison courtroom

The trial of Golden Dawn was adjourned again Friday when a group of protesters tried to barge into the makeshift courtroom at Korydallos maximum security jail.

The resumption on Friday of the trial of Golden Dawn leaders and members at Korydallos Prison was marred by upheaval after anti-establishment protesters being escorted to an adjacent courtroom for a trial of alleged members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire guerrilla group burst into the premises of the GD trial.