Serres

Thirteen correctional officers are to stand trial over the death of Albanian inmate Ilie Kareli in Nigrita Prison last March after a judicial council in Serres, northern Greece, rejected their appeal against their indictment.

The indictment was issued last October after a judicial investigation found that the inmate had been tortured.

A coroner?s report concerning the death of a 70-year-old woman whose body was found on Thursday in her home in the municipality of Alistrati in Nea Zichni near the northern city of Serres has suggested that the victim was probably murdered.

The 70-year-old, who was not named, appears to have died of suffocation, according to the coroner?s report.

Seven people in Serres in northern Greece were sentenced to between three and six years in prison on Friday, after being found guilty of embezzling European farming subsidies.

Another 34 people were acquitted in the same case, which concerns more than 900,000 euros in subsidies granted for tomato cultivation on the basis of falsified certificates.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic received on Wednesday in Belgrade the charter of the Greek city of Serres awarding him the title of Citizen of Honor.

Nikolic met with a delegation of Serres, headed by Mayor Petros Aggelidis.

Authorities in much of northern Greece remained on standby on Monday night after heavy rainfall caused serious flooding, particularly in the region of Evros and across much of the prefecture of Thessaloniki.

An investigation has been launched after a 4-month-old baby died on board a tourist coach in northern Greece early on Friday.

The coach was traveling from Romania to Thessaloniki when the child’s parents, a Romanian couple, asked the driver to call an ambulance after their child started to run a high temperature.

The cost of excavation operations on Kasta Hill in Serres, northeastern Greece, has not exceeded the sum of 590,000 euros, Culture Minister Costas Tasoulas told Parliament on Monday.

Tasoulas presented the information to the House following a question by Independent Greeks MP Nikos Nikolopoulos.

A 36-year-old woman was detained by police on Wednesday in Serres, northern Greece, on charges of fraud and deception after she allegedly embezzled 15,000 euros from the funds of a local association where she was employed before claiming to have been the victim of an armed robbery.

A Thessaloniki court on Wednesday sentenced a 63-year-old supermarket owner from the village of Neo Petritsi, near Serres, to life in prison after finding him guilty of murdering a 53-year-old mother of two with whom he is alleged to have had an affair before throwing her into a mountain ravine.

A 64-year-old farmer was killed on Thursday after an earth-moving machine fell on top of him at his farm in the village of Triantafyllia, in the northern regional unit of Serres.

According to sources, the accident occurred while the man had been trying to repair the machine.