Thermaikos

An boat with two passengers was drifting uncontrollably last night, Thursday, August 29, in the sea area of Epanomi, in eastern Thessaloniki.

Matenisa Trading has won the tender for the utilization of the Agia Triada coast and camping in the Municipality of Thermaikos in Thessaloniki, state asset utilization fund TAIPED announced on Thursday.

A 33-year-old man died while swimming in a popular beach in northern Greece, authorities said on Saturday.

Two men, aged 23 and 24, suspected of participating in the hooligan attack that occurred late Monday night in the area of Nea Michaniona in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, were arrested by the police on Tuesday.

They are expected to appear before a prosecutor on Wednesday, while the investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, have arrested 12 suspects in connection with an attack against two men on Monday night that appears to have been motivated by local soccer rivalries.

The two men, brothers aged 37 and 42 years old, told the police they were assaulted while walking in the seaside suburb of Nea Michaniona at around 8.30 p.m. by a gang of at least 10 males. 

 A 45-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki on Saturday for sexually harassing a 12-year-old girl.

The suspect approached the girl at the beach of Epanomi and caressed her genitals, state-run news agency AMNA reported.

It was not clear who alerted the police.

The possibility that Greece could develop its own version of Silicon Valley has grown more likely, as the state has recovered ownership of the 760,000-square meter plot at Peraia in Thessaloniki, where a fourth-generation technology park is to be developed.

The citizens of Thessaloniki strolling along the port of Thermaikos were in for a surprise, as the waters had turned red. The natural phenomenon, which is known as the “red tide”, is created from a rapid development of uni-cellar photosynthetic plankton organisms. It is phenomenon that appears on a regular basis in Thessaloniki, which results in reddish spots on the water surface.

A search and rescue operation was under way on Thursday for a 53-year-old woman who went missing in the Thermaikos Gulf after she reportedly abandoned her car in a flash flood in the area between Mihaniona and Epanomi in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, late Tuesday.