Anarchist group scales gates of Foreign Ministry

Members of the self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas scaled the gates of a Foreign Ministry building in Athens on Tuesday morning and left a bag containing a Palestinian flag and photographs of people killed in recent clashes with the Israeli army.

A video of the incident, posted on anti-authoritarian websites, shows a number of members of the group climbing over the gate and leaving the bag in a laneway between buildings.

In a statement accompanying the video, the group said the bag also contained "photographs of the dead from the last episode in the genocide of a people on the occasion of the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by another long-time strategic ally of the Greek state, the US".

Main opposition New Democracy said the "invasion" of the embassy showed that nothing was safe in SYRIZA-ruled Greece.

"After the Defense Ministry and...