Greece's police

More than 2,000 officers have been assigned by the leadership of Greece's police force, ELAS, to prevent violence on the sidelines of several soccer games taking place in Athens over the next few days.

Greece's police force has "enormous potential, as long as it is used correctly," a retired high-ranking officer of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) said on TV the other day. That "correct use" is what seems so elusive.

Greece's police force, ELAS, on Tuesday responded to criticism in the wake of a violent clash between dozens of soccer fans in Athens that resulted in the death of a young man, a week before the capital is set to host the UEFA Super Cup final.

Greece's caretaker Foreign Minister Vassilis Kaskarelis and Turkey's newly sworn Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed the migration issue in a phone call Tuesday.

Migrant flows into Greece have picked up over the past few weeks, aided by lower water levels on the Evros river, which forms almost all the land border between the two countries.

Greece's police minister on Oct. 10 said 250 additional guards would be deployed on the country's land border with Turkey, where thousands of asylum-seekers tried to enter last year.

A member of anarchist group Rouvikonas was arrested over the vandalism of the Parliament building earlier on Tuesday, when several hooded group members threw paint and smoke bombs on the walls.
The suspect was initially detained as he tried to flee after the attack.

The perpetrators of bomb attacks on members of the judiciary, on news media and on economic targets are members of small groups who believe that they have the authority to express the "resistance" of many against the "system." The attacks are a threat and a declaration of intent, proof that even as the fashion of leftist terrorism has died out in other European countries, having run itself into

Over 1 ton of heroin was seized and 11 people were arrested in Attica on Friday during a joint operation between Greece's police and coast guard and the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).