Author: Kavala.com

After a complete renovation, Kavala’s Galaxy Hotel (Airotel Group) reopened in June. Pictured: Yiorgos Skliris, Galaxy’s hotel manager; Christos Gavrielides, Airotel’s revenue manager; Despina Chalatsi, Airotel’s banquet and marketing manager; Evgenios Vassilikos, Airotel Stratos Vassilikos Hotel manager; Dimitra Tsorpidou, Galaxy’s reservations and banquet department; Spyros Georgiou, Airotel’s commercial director; Evgenia Babali; Airotel’s reservations manager; and Eleni Vasilopoulou, Airotel’s groups and incentives manager. “By investing in Kavala and reviving the city’s most historic hotel, Airotel group creates long-term expectations that are much-needed during these times in the city and the country,” Airotel CEO Alexandros Vassilikos told the media last month during…

A jobless couple set a tent on the main square of Kavala and started a hunger strike. The aim of their desperate action? To get a job! Lazaros Papadopoulos, 60, and his wife Frideriki Toka, 40, saw no other solution to raise attention to their problem. They have been without a job since a couple of years. They reached the tip of their hopelessness iceberg when their landlord threatened them with eviction shouldn’t they be able to pay due rents of seven months. Papadopoulos, a driver, concluded his last temporary work contract in December 2009. Toga, a cook’s assistant, has…

After being extradited from Turkey, where he had fled with a gunshot wound in November, a northern Greek businessman suspected of masterminding four (4) Mafia-style executions and a twin bank heist in Macedonia was charged in Kavala yesterday with attempted murder and inciting robbery. Andreas Chtenas, 45, of Kavala, was taken under heavy security measures from Thessaloniki to the eastern Macedonian town, where he was flown after his extradition from Istanbul on the basis of an international arrest warrant. According to police, Chtenas accidentally shot himself in the leg during a gunfight with officers outside two (2) banks in Eleftheroupolis,…

A Greek appeals court lowered a Kavala seaman’s life sentence for the murder and mutilation of his American fiancée to 23 years in jail on Tuesday. George Skiadopoulos was convicted three (3) years ago in the death of 31-year-old former model Julie Scully of Mansfield, NJ on January 08, 1999. Scully’s body was discovered charred and beheaded. Because of the reduced term, Skiadopoulos, 28, may be eligible for early release in as short as five (5) years. Skiadopoulos claimed his acts were motivated by “jealous rage” because Scully intended to leave him. Scully, a former legal secretary, was well-known in…

The Greek sailor, who slaughtered a New Jersey model, told cops he threw her severed head into the sea so “I can always be with her.” Prosecutors in the northern Greek city of Kavala accused George Skiadopoulos, 24, with murder in the brutal slaying of Julie Scully, 31, of Mansfield, NJ, yesterday. Skiadopoulos, who had been engaged to Scully, confessed to killing her and hacksawing off her skull when she threatened to flee the country. He told cops he buried her body in a swamp but decided to bury her skull at sea so he would always think of her…