Skouries

The 1,900 miners who work in the goldmines of Hellas Gold in Skouries in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, want to continue their work, despite the new government's pre-election promises to shut down the mines. According to Greek newspaper "Kathimerini," the Skouries...

Tension broke between protesters and police officers in Skouries, northern Greece, on Sunday, November 23. Residents had gathered in order to protest against the area’s gold mines that are polluting the environment. Greek police used chemicals and stun grenades to prevent the crowd...

  A confrontation that took place between locals and Greek police on Thursday, February 19, in Skouries, northern Greece, resulted in injuries. The locals were protesting against the gold mining. Everything started when a group of women participating in the protests,...

The Misdemeanor Court of Chalkidiki  that took place on October 2012, found 11 of the 14 accused for the clashes with the police during the protest at Kakavos against the Skouries mining operation, innocent. Fourteen people were taken to...

The “Caravan of solidarity and information against the gold mining in the region of Chalkidiki” is now in the Syntagma Square. The residents of Chalkidiki passed from different Greek towns such as  Katerini, Larissa, Volos and Lamia. The aim of the...

Transcripted phone conversations of journalists that work in Greek and foreign media is included in the criminal file of those who are accused for participating in a “criminal organization” in Skouries. According to Eleftherotypia, phone interviews that the members...

“No tolerance of illegal activity and acts of violence that undermine Democracy, we should break the vicious circle of tension which leads to violence and the vicious circle of violence that leads to tension,” stated the prime minister, while...

The Canadian activist journalist and author Naomi Klein, declared her solidarity to the Greek people, who have been living under the shock doctrine the last years, as she stated in a press conference she gave at the Mikropolis Social...

Three women from Halkidiki, northern Greece, who were arrested following more skirmishes between protesters and police at the Skouries gold mine faced a local prosecutor on May 13. The women, aged 25, 39, and 40, allegedly tried to obstruct one...

Twenty residents in Northeast Halkididki’s village Skouries have been prosecuted for an attack against the Skouries gold mining site being worked on by a Canadian company, Eldorado Gold, with its Greek subsidiary, Hellenic Gold. During the Feb. 17 incident, some...