Golden Dawn party

An anonymous social media drive mobilizing middle and high school students to oppose Greece's name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is expected to culminate with protest rallies and school gatherings on Thursday.

Students at a few dozen high schools have already held sit-ins and marches.

The head of the Athens Court of Appeals, Constantinos Stamadianos, vowed measures on Wednesday to accelerate the trial of Greece's neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, which started three-and-a-half years ago.

The killing has caused a strong reaction from Athens.

According to Albanian media, the victim, Konstantinos Katsifas, a 35-yer-old, shot from a Kalashnikov (AK-47) rifle at Albanian police officers who were removing the flag.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Albanian Embassy in the northern Athens suburb of Filothei on Sunday evening to protest the killing earlier in the day of an ethnic Greek man in the village of Bularat, some 6 kilometers from Albania's border with Greece, earlier in the day.

The Greek Union of Judges and Prosecutors hit back on Friday at suggestions the court system is to blame for delays in the ongoing trial of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party.

In a statement, the union cited a shortage of space.

"The court meets 10 times a month because there is no special room to conduct the procedure on a more regular basis," it said.

A few days ago, a photograph was published on some social media sites of Magda Fyssa sitting in a court room. She is the mother of the 34-year-old rapper Pavlos Fyssas who was killed by a member of the neofascist Golden Dawn party on September 18, 2013 in the western Athens district of Keratsini.

Police chiefs are bracing for upheaval over the next few days ahead of the fifth anniversary of the killing of the 34-year-old rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a member of the neofascist Golden Dawn party. 

Hundreds of extreme-right Golden Dawn party supporters protested the construction of a state-funded mosque - the capital's first - at a rally in Athens Thursday.

No arrests were reported during the demonstration which was held at the construction site of the mosque near central Athens.

Several hundred supporters of Greece's extreme right Golden Dawn party  staged a protest near central Athens on Wednesday evening against plans to build a state-funded mosque in the Greek capital.

Authorities used riot police buses to block roads near the construction site during the rally, which ended with no reported arrests.

Three men accused of the murder of a student during a mugging on Athens' Philopappou Hill on August 15 have been jailed on remand after appearing before investigating magistrates.