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Greece's Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned the vandalism of the Holocaust Monument and the wall of the local Synagogue in the city of Larissa on Thursday, describing it as "heinous."

"This abhorrent act offends the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and is not in line with Greek culture and the values of Greek society," the ministry said in a statement.

Clashes erupted outside a Roma settlement in Nea Smyrni, Larissa, central Greece, on Friday, when residents set fires to prevent the transfer of 35 people who had tested positive for the coronavirus to a facility where they will be quarantined for 14 days.

Greek police have found a body in the river Pinios, at the regional unit of Thessaly, a local news website reported on Monday afternoon.
Officers and firemen have cordoned off the area and are expected to use a boat to pull the body out of the water, according to larissanet.gr.

The Superleague Thursday announced the postponement of this weekend's soccer championship games due to a strike called by the country's top-flight referees.

As Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou reviews the case of a 53-year-old woman who was given a 10-year prison term for falsifying a school certificate to get a cleaning job in a state kindergarten, a Larissa court is to hear her appeal for release pending the review.