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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-02-08Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] Go-ahead for 'documenta' horseback event 'recreating' Parthenon frieze scenesGreece's Central Archaeological Council has given its approval for a horseback parade through central Athens, planned as the opening event of the international exhibition 'documenta 14' on April 6. The Council drew a line, however, at the organisers' request to use miniature Skyrian ponies."The horses taking part must be of normal size," the Council members said in a unanimous decision on Tuesday, refusing to accept the organisers' claim that the horses depicted on the Parthenon frieze - which the event seeks to 'recreate' - were of small size. "The people and the horses on the Parthenon frieze have a certain proportion. The horses there are large, they are not ponies," the Council members said. The parade will start on the Dionysiou Areopagitou pedestrian road that circles the Acropolis, near Aghia Sophia Church, and end when it reaches Parliament, where it will mark the start of the exhibition. The procession, which will serve as the flagship event for documenta, will have 12 horses and riders, while organisers expect that the public following the procession will help create a festive atmosphere for both the event and the exhibition. It aims to serve as a symbolic correlation, presenting a contemporary image of the procession of horsemen depicted on the Parthenon frieze. The event will not only mark the start of the international art exhibition "documenta 14" held in Kassel, Germany every five years - and this year also simultaneously taking place in Athens for the first time. It will also mark the start of a 100-day horseback journey covering 1,850 miles, from Athens to Kassel, passing through the western Balkan countries such as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Serbia and Slovenia. Organisers said that this forms part of a tradition of lengthy horseback rides in Europe and the world, inspired by the work "Tschiffely's Ride" by Swiss author Aimé Félix Tschiffely, describing his own horseback journey from Buenos Aires to New York in 1928. Among the horses making the journey to Kassel will be a horse of Greek breed named Hermes. The coordinator of the documenta 14 exhibitions in Athens Melina Spathari noted that the name of the "god of crossing borders" was not a chance selection but symbolised the movement of populations and Greece's strategic significance in this movement. [02] Xanthi's carnival to attract more than 5,000 Turkish touristsThe carnival of Xanthi is expected to attract over 5,000 Turkish tourists who are expected to visit the region at the last weekend of February.A lot of tourists from Greece and the Balkans flock to Xanthi these days. "In order to serve the accommodation needs, hotels from Orestiada to Drama, Serres and Thessaloniki are full," Stefanos Hatzimanolis, vice president of the Greek-Turkish Chamber of Commerce of Northern Greece, said to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency. "People from Bursa, Istanbul, East Thrace, Dardanelles, even from Smyrna come to Xanthi," Hatzimanolis said and explained that the carnival attracts a lot of people because it offers something different and is well organised. [03] Criminal Appeals Court rejects Tsohatzopoulos request for release from jailA five-member Criminal Appeals Court on Wednesday again rejected a request filed by jailed former Greek minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos for his release from prison. This is the fourth time that a petition requesting Tsohatzopoulos' release and a suspension of his 20-year prison sentence has been declined.Tsohatzopoulos is currently in Attiko Hospital in Athens, where he was admitted on Monday suffering from what his doctor described as dangerous venous ulcer requiring immediate surgery. In spite of this, the court found that the minister's stay in prison was not prejudicial to his health and would not cause "irreparable harm," since he could promptly be taken to hospital if necessary. The former minister was jailed for receiving kickbacks from contracts for the purchase of submarines and TORM1 missiles when he was head of the defence ministry. [04] 12,999 refugees relocated to other EU member states in 201612,999 refugees were relocated to EU countries in 2016, mostly to France, however the offering position from EU member states is very low and a huge delay is recorded in the acceptance of requests, according to Asylum Service date issued on Wednesday.The total number of relocation positions for those refugees that have sought asylum in Greece was 12,999 in 2016 with France offering 3,200 positions followed by Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal. The average time between the candidate's request for relocation in the Asylum Service and its sending to another member state is 49 days. The Asylum Service had 24,233 candidates for relocation on February 1 but the member states had offered only 15,164 positions. 523 unaccompanied minors had been recorded from the start of the relocation programme until January 20. 350 of them have been already accepted with Finland receiving 119 of them. 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