Attacks launched over terror suspect

The demand of a jailed terror suspect, who is on a hunger strike, to be returned to Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison after he was forcefully removed by EKAM special forces on Saturday and sent to a penitentiary in the central Greek town of Larissa, sparked a series of violent demonstrations, culminating in a hand grenade assault Monday morning on a police precinct in Athens.

The 6 a.m. attack in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens led to the injury of a taxi driver who was parked nearby. The grenade detonated some 20 meters away from the precinct. The taxi driver sustained shrapnel wounds to his legs.

Initially, police were examining the possibility that the intended target of the grenade was a nearby grocery store but only realized it was the precinct when the perpetrators posted a message on an anti-establishment website later in the day.

They said the...