Attica police

An Attica police officer was placed on administrative leave on Friday, two days after being arrested for the misappropriation of service weapons. 

A sworn administrative inquiry has been ordered into the officers' activities.

A 22-year-old Greek woman was arrested in Athens on Thursday after importing cannabis from the US, reported the Hellenic Police on Sunday. 

The woman was arrested after receiving a suspicious package from the US, containing approximately 1.5 kilograms of raw cannabis. 

A group of unidentified attackers targeted a cafe in the central Ampelokipoi neighborhood on Thursday, in an incident that seems to be connected to the violent clashes that took place outside AEK Athens' home stadium in the western suburb of Nea Filadelfia on Monday, leading to the death of a 29-year-old supporter.

MeRA25 party said that its lawmeksr and Vice-President of Parliament, Sofia Sakorafa, was attacked by riot police outside Attica police headquarters on Wednesday evening.

Sakorafa was at the building along with others after a roundup of protesters against the education bill and tried to intervene.

A cold front dubbed Leandros is hitting Greece with snow on Saturday, with power outages reported in the eastern part of Thessaloniki.

Regions as far south as Crete are expecting an onslaught heavy rain and strong winds that will last through Tuesday.

An Athens prosecutor on Thursday launched an investigation into whether criminal charges should be brought against the management of a private clinic in Peristeri, western Athens, after at least 29 people - 18 patients and 11 employees - tested positive for Covid-19.

The government is activating its confidential Artemis plan to tackle the Covid-19 virus, with the mobilization - possibly on Friday - of two new operational centers coordinated by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection, with a third in the process of being set up to have a supervisory role.

Two Attica police officers have been suspended from the service following their arrest on Saturday, allowing with a civilian, on drug dealing charges. 

The arrests followed an investigation which revealed that the pair had been procuring quantities of cocaine, allegedly for their personal use as well as small-scale distribution.

In the wake of the controversy that followed a police operation to empty two squats in Koukaki over the weekend, State Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Monday that evicted squatters who hurled blocks of concrete and other projectiles at officers should face felony rather than misdemeanor charges.

The union of Attica police's special guards said Monday that they taking legal action to change the charges brought against twenty people arrested in Saturday's operations to remove people from two squats in central Athens from a misdemeanour to a felony.