Thermi

A retired teacher in Thessaloniki is expected to appear before a prosecutor on charges of performing a lewd act on a minor to whom he was giving private lessons.

Police in the Thermi district of the northern city arrested the 72-year-old male after his student, a 14-year-old girl, and her mother filed a complaint.

Police in Thessaloniki on Friday were investigating the burglary on Christmas Day of an elderly man's home in the district of Thermi during which the robbers allegedly made off with 800 gold sovereigns. 

According to the account given by the 72-year-old, the assailants broke into his home through the balcony door and stole jewelry as well as the gold sovereigns.

With just over 60 percent of votes counted on Monday morning, the conservative New Democracy-backed candidate for Thessaloniki mayor Nikos Tachiaos was projected to secure 22.56 percent while Constantinos Zervas and Giorgos Orphanos fought it out for second place with 14.76 percent and 14.41 percent respectively ahead of the runoff next weekend.

The Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum, Noesis, is a non-profit cultural and educational foundation in the eastern part of the northern port city that aims to popularize and disseminate modern knowledge.

A memorial on the Aegean island of Lesvos erected in memory of the hundreds of migrants and refugees who have perished while attempting the crossing from Turkey to Greece and the European Union has been destroyed by vandals.

Authorities in northern Greece were on Friday investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a person whose charred remains were found in a burning car in eastern Thessaloniki.

The body was found in the driving seat of the car, which had been parked in the yard of a house in Thermi, early on Friday morning.

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris appeared confident on Wednesday that the northern port city's first crematorium will be up and running by the first half of 2019, as work continues on a unit at the First Municipal Cemetery in Thermi.

A refugee girl stands next to her mother during a protest at the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace in Thessaloniki Tuesday. Representatives of the nearby municipality of Thermi and local residents are insisting that conditions at the refugee reception facility in the area of Vasilika be improved immediately as winter is looming and temperatures are dropping.

Plans are afoot for the creation of a new reception center for refugees near Thermi, east of Thessaloniki, funded by a German nongovernmental organization, Kathimerini understands.