Thermi

A 40-year-old man who was paragliding near Thessaloniki has died after crashing into a hill in an inaccessible area.

The incident occurred near the village of Vasilika, about 30 kilometers southeast of Thessaloniki.

Fifteen firefighters and members of the mountain search and rescue team found the body but attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.

The 46-year-old driver, who on Wednesday morning drove his car into the area of Thermi in eastern Thessaloniki and seriously injured a couple walking with their two-year-old child, will be brought before the prosecutor in the coming hours in Thessaloniki.

A closed gymnasium under construction in Trilofos, in the municipality of Thermi, eastern Thessaloniki, was vandalized by unknown individuals before its construction could be completed. The perpetrators entered the construction site, opened containers of materials that were on-site, and scattered them across the stands and the playing area.

Banning both the Sheikh Su and other forested areas of Thessaloniki will be in effect today, due to the very high risk of fire outbreak according to the Fire Risk Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Ministry of Climate Change and Civil Protection.

Four minors were arrested in the northern port city of Thessaloniki following another violent incident. 

On Friday night, outside a health store in the Thermi area, the minors, along with unknown accomplices, assaulted two individuals aged 17 and 19, causing them physical injuries. 

The 19-year-old was transported by ambulance to a city hospital for precautionary treatment. 

Hundreds of farmers with 300 tractors are expected to meet Thursday in central Thessaloniki, near the iconic White Tower, to line up at the entrance to the Agrotica exhibition, to press demands for greater support of the farming sector.

In what was a difficult day for Greece, 31-year-old riot police officer, Giorgos Lyggeridis, who died on Wednesday after being injured outside a volleyball arena by a flare fired by a hooligan on December 7, and 40-year-old pilot Epaminondas Kosteas, whose T-2 aircraft crashed this week, were laid to rest on Friday.

A 50-year-old man, who has declared he is a monk living in a cell on Mount Athos, was prosecuted on Monday for the felony of abusing animals following his arrest, after a complaint that he attacked stray dogs with a knife in Thermi, a suburb of Thessaloniki.

The defendant, a Serbian national, appeared before a judicial investigator in the northern port city.

Two of the parties involved in football violence that took place on Wednesday night in the area of Souroti near Thessaloniki have been arrested.

The two defendants, aged 17, were accused of violent crimes instigated by sports events, bodily harm, and attempted assault.

Two horses caused traffic disruptions on Thursday after they began galloping on the highway connecting Moudania and Thessaloniki in northern Greece near the Thermi bridge.

The Thessaloniki Traffic Police responded immediately and arrived on the scene to regulate traffic while also ensuring the safety of drivers and that the horses were collected by their owner.