Petralona

A campaign by the City of Athens to prettify the capital continued on Sunday with a cleanup of two of the city's most popular squares: Exarchia and Kolonaki.

A man accused of killing, dismembering and disposing of the body of his godfather on December 28 was ordered to remain in prison until his trial after testifying before an investigative magistrate on Friday, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

Police in Athens are seeking the unidentified arsonists who torched two cars in the neighborhood of Petralona early Friday morning.
Fire fighers were called on Kifisodotou Street around 2.30 a.m. to extinguish the fires. No injuries were reported
The motive behind the attacks was unclear.

Police in Athens on Monday were searching the capital's main landfill in Fyli for the remains of a 52-year-old man after a 21-year-old confessed to murdering him, cutting up his body and disposing of it in the trash.

The 21-year-old man reportedly confessed on Saturday to stabbing his 52-year-old godfather to death in his sleep because the older man used to beat his mother.

Candid American comedian Liza Treyger, who rose to fame in the Netflix series "The Degenerates" and on the US talkshow "Late Night with Seth Meyers," will be performing in Athens on Thursday, September 26. In between jokes about her own sexual experiences, Treyger doesn't shy away from important topics such as sexism and feminism.

Police in Athens are seeking the unidentified arsonists who torched four cars in the neighborhood of Petralona early Thursday morning.
The vehicles had been in the ground-floor parking area of an apartment block when the attack occurred, shortly after 3 a.m. according to witnesses.

The pictured building on Plapouta Street in Exarchia is one of 13 derelict structures that are to be demolished in the wake of concerns following last Friday's 5.1-magnitude quake in the capital. Municipal authorities have ordered that the buildings - in Exarchia, Monastiraki, Petralona, Aegaleo and Piraeus - be torn down amid fears for their stability following the temblor.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake that hit the Greek capital on Friday afternoon damaged several buildings, while four people were hospitalized with injuries, none of them serious.

Two old buildings reportedly collapsed in Athens and two people were lightly injured after the 5.1-magnitude earthquake that hit the Greek capital on Friday afternoon, authorities said.
The Seismological Center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki said the quake, which struck at 2:13 p.m., was close to the surface, which explains why it was widely felt in the Greek capital.

Two old buildings reportedly collapsed in two districts of Athens but there were no reports of any serious injuries after the 5.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Athens on Friday afternoon, Greek authorities said.