Fresh smash-and-grab attempted at previously hit Athens shop

Police in Athens are looking for the driver and passenger of a vehicle that tried to smash into a store in the northern suburb of Nea Filadelfia for the second time in just over 24 hours in the early hours of Tuesday.

The incident took place at around 3 a.m. when a police patrol saw a car trying to drive through the window of a vegetable shop that had been targeted a day earlier. In that attack, the assailants smashed through the window with a car and made off with the money in the till.

In Tuesday's attack, the perpetrators were interrupted by the police officers, who fired a warning shot into the air when one of the would-be burglars pulled out a gun.

The assailants drove off, prompting a manhunt.

There has been a spate of similar smash-and-grab burglaries in which a vehicle was used to crash into businesses in different parts of the capital in recent...