Attacks spike in 'solidarity' with terror suspect

The office of a university professor at Panteion University in Athens was vandalized by members of an anti-establishment group on Wednesday afternoon, the latest in a series of attacks described by the perpetrators as "an expression of solidarity" with Constantinos Giagtzoglou, a 29-year-old terrorist suspect who was recently transferred from the capital's Korydallos Prison to a penitentiary in Larissa, central Greece.

The suspect is demanding his return to Korydallos. 

Earlier in the day, some 30 to 40 anti-establishment group members staged a sit-in protest at the offices of the government-affiliated Avgi newspaper in support of Giagtzoglou, while shortly after Tuesday at midnight a similar number went on a rampage on the central Ermou shopping street, smashing the windows of at least 10 shops. 

Meanwhile, in Thessaloniki a group of around 10 men set fire to...

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