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Thessaloniki: Supercar event organiser arrested after luxury car sped along waterfront
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Thessaloniki: Supercar event organiser arrested after luxury car sped along waterfront

From Ta Nea · () Greek

Translated from Greek and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Greek police arrested the organiser of a luxury-car event in Thessaloniki after a video showed a vehicle speeding along the waterfront.
  • The municipality said it had authorised only the cars’ stationary display outside the Macedonia Palace hotel, and the organiser will face justice.

A luxury-car gathering in Thessaloniki ended with the arrest of its organiser after a video appeared to show one of the vehicles speeding along the city’s New Waterfront.

The municipality said it had granted an events company, represented by a foreign national, permission only for the luxury cars to stop and remain outside the Macedonia Palace hotel. The footage prompted authorities to check whether the event had breached those conditions.

The shameful images of reckless people accelerating their luxury cars on the paving of the New Waterfront will not be tolerated.

— Giorgos DimarelosThessaloniki’s deputy mayor condemned the reported speeding and said the conduct breached the event permit.

Deputy Mayor for Public Spaces Protection and Municipal Police Giorgos Dimarelos said the municipal police notified the Thessaloniki Traffic Directorate once the violation became clear. Officers then arrested the person responsible, who is due to be brought before justice authorities.

Dimarelos condemned what he called “shameful images” of drivers accelerating luxury cars across the paved waterfront. He said the permit did not allow conduct that turned the New Waterfront into a racing track, and that the municipality would take legal action against anyone responsible for the danger and disruption caused.

The permit granted concerned exclusively the parking of the cars at a specific location and under no circumstances allowed behaviour that turns the New Waterfront into a racing track.

— Giorgos DimarelosHe clarified the limited scope of the municipality’s authorisation.
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