Stavroupoli

The water supply in Thessaloniki is being gradually restored after many parts of the northern port city found themselves cut off for several hours on Wednesday and Thursday.

German singer-songwriter Christian Ronig - the talent behind the excellent English adaptation of "Minore tis Avgis" called "Dawn in Minor" - will appear at the Lazariston Monastery as part of the venue's summer festival, on Friday, September 7.

In a solo show in his native Thessaloniki Kostas Tsolis uses current affairs photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, and documentary fragments pertaining to major global events and historical figures to comment on the notion of collective and individual memory. "Another Day in Paradise," at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, runs Friday to Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Unidentified vandals early on Thursday damaged a bank ATM in the Pefka suburb of Thessaloniki, fleeing with an unidentified sum.

The assailants appear to have first smashed the glass screen of the ATM before channeling flammable gas into the machine and igniting it.

A similar incident earlier this week targeted an ATM in the Stavroupoli suburb of the northern city.

Unidentified arsonists vandalized a bank ATM in the Thessaloniki district of Stavroupoli in the early hours of Monday, causing damage but no injuries.

The assailants appear to have first smashed the glass screen of the ATM before channeling flammable gas into the machine and igniting it.

They fled with an undetermined sum, police said. 

A 42-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in the Thessaloniki neighborhood of Stavroupoli on charges of possessing material containing child pornography. He was detained after police received a complaint.

A 50-year-old Thessaloniki bus driver was released from custody on Sunday after fatally injuring a 70-year-old pedestrian in an alleged hit-and-run incident in the area of Stavroupoli on Friday.

Facing a local prosecutor, the suspect argued that he had not seen the victim on the road. The prosecutor ordered a probe as well as the bus driver’s release pending trial.