Exarchia residents tired of people using streets as toilet

Athens's bohemian neighborhood of Exarchia, the stamping ground of artists, anarchists and addicts, is being plagued by late-night revelers relieving themselves in the street, locals have complained to Kathimerini.

"We aren't talking about refugees, drug addicts or the homeless. We're talking about ordinary people who go to a bar and then urinate or defecate on the sidewalks," said a female resident identified only as S.K.

The problem, locals say, is most acute in the district's bar-packed streets and parking lots - particularly that on the corner of Metaxa and Zoodochou Pigis streets.

"People use it as a public toilet. I have seen people park their car at night, urinate, and then carry on," said a local, identified as T.T. "You see people coming out of the bar, walking to the [parking lot] to relieve themselves instead of visiting the bathroom on the...