Spata

The lack of proper planning on the part of the state for the removal of waste and branches cleared from private plots of land has led to the creation of hundreds of potential fire sources around the country.

An 18-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were killed on Thursday morning when their cars smashed into each other on the road linking Spata to Artemida, east of Athens.

Ring-tailed lemurs enjoy licking a fruit popsicle at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata suburb, eastern Athens, on Friday. With temperatures soaring to 40°C (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and expected to rise further, the zoo is providing frozen meals to a wide variety of animals to help them cope with the scorching conditions during the fourth heatwave in less than a month.

The Hellenic Society for Environment and Culture (ELLET) and three environmental organizations are calling for a review of the Erasinos River management project in the Mesogeia region of Attica. 

Following the adoption, in April 2022, of strategic investment status by the three Microsoft data centers, the next milestone for the 1-billion-euro investment is the start of construction of the facilities that will store the data and information trafficked through the internet.

Newborn ring-tailed lemurs play inside the shuttered Attica Zoological Park, in Spata, east of Athens, on Thursday. Five lemurs were born after the site was closed to the public as part of health restrictions for the new coronavirus pandemic. The government is planning next week to ease restrictions against the Covid-19 which has so far helped keep infection rates low in Greece.

Property investment group Pradera is putting both of its assets in Greece on the market.
Sources say it is at an advanced stage for the concession of the Village Entertainment Park (pictured) at Renti, near Piraeus, as well as the Florida 1 Retail Park at Pylaia in Thessaloniki.

The eastern Attica Municipality of Spata-Artemida has leased an airplane to bring back a group of students and teachers from the local high school who are on a trip to France so that they may avoid the return journey by bus via Italy.

A large drug cartel operating primarily in the Athens suburbs of Acharnes and Fyli has been unraveled by Attica police authorities.
Police said the cartel consisted of seven gangs that worked under the guidance of two criminal organizations.

Police on Friday were seeking three armed men who forced their way into a house in Spata, eastern Attica, on Thursday night and threatened an elderly couple and their housekeeper.
The robbers, who had their faces covered, rang the doorbell at around 9.30 p.m. and when the door was opened, barged in and threatened the three victims at gunpoint.