Achaia

A 65-year-old principal in Achaia, southern Greece, was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a 14-year-old female student. 

The General Secretariat of Civil Protection issued its daily fire risk prediction map, forecasting extreme risk of fire (risk category 5) for seven regions of Greece on Thursday.

Firefighters were battling several blazes on Friday in different parts of the country and although strong winds and tinder-dry conditions hampered their efforts, they had managed to bring most under partial control by nightfall.

Two of the fires were in Achaia, western Greece, on forestland near the villages of Aghios Nikolaos and Santomeri.

The Greek Police (ELAS) is to extend the so-called neighborhood policeman scheme to cover another 13 districts in Athens, Kilkis in northern Greece, and Achaia in the Peloponnese, it emerged on Friday.

The oldest man in Greece had died at the age of 112! Thodoros Masouras from Achaia, lived through some of the most important events in Greek history. When the WW1 broke out he was 12 years old, while he was 35 during WW2. His relatives said he had full mental clarity until the end and was writing poems.

Police said they have confiscated more than 27,000 firecrackers and other pyrotechnics and arrested 10 people over their illegal possession in the last few days in the regions of Achaia, Ilia and Aitoloacarnania in the Peloponnese.