Winemakers

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris on Friday announced his intention to run for a third term in office in the local elections in May next year.

Boutaris announced his plans to city officials, saying that "I will be mayor until I'm 100."

The mayor of the small town of Argos in southern Greece, Dimitris Kambosou, was expelled from the New Democracy party on Friday over anti-Semitic references regarding his counterpart in Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris.

The decision was taken by the conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

A twelfth suspect was identified by Greek police on Saturday in connection to a mob attack against Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris on May 19.

The 22-year-old Greek national will face charges of verbal assault and disturbing the peace.

Just a few hours after Council of State judges in Athens issued a statement concerning an attack by the Rouvikonas anti-establishment group on the Athens premises of the country's highest administrative court, judges at a misdemeanors court in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, released three of the men who attacked the city's mayor, Yiannis Boutaris, last weekend.

A 44-year-old local police officer has been identified as being among three more suspects believed to have been involved in last weekend's violent attack on Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris.

According to sources, the 44-year-old was stripped of his weapon in 2015 and assigned to desk duty after failing to pass the force's psychiatric evaluation.

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris has urged authorities to find the instigators behind the "footmen" carrying out attacks like that on him last Saturday by far-right extremists during a public ceremony.

A misdemeanors court in Thessaloniki on Wednesday found three people guilty over a mob attack against city mayor Yiannis Boutaris last weekend, which resulted in his brief hospitalization.

Four males, aged between 17 and 36, punching and kicking a 75-year-old man, who is a top city official and of fragile health (Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris recently had heart surgery). It was a despicable spectacle that played out on TV and computer screens around the world. The nationalist thugs who carried out the attack should be ashamed of themselves.

Three out of the four suspects detained in connection with a mob attack on Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris last weekend will appear before a misdemeanors court Wednesday to face charges of grievous bodily harm, aggravated damages and breaching the peace.

The fourth accused, a 17-year-old man, will be tried by a court for minors on October 4.

It takes a lot of nerve for someone to accuse the main opposition party of being responsible for the attack on Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris. Especially when the ones pointing the finger are people who justified or even committed acts of violence in the name of the struggle against austerity and other such causes.