Costas Sakkas

Two anarchists arrested last Wednesday following a thwarted heist on a money delivery van outside Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital were remanded in custody on Tuesday after defending themselves before an investigating magistrate.

Two anarchists arrested on Wednesday after attempting to rob a money delivery van outside Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital are to face an investigating magistrate in the northern port city on armed robbery charges on Tuesday while police step up a probe into their suspected links to Greek guerrilla groups.

Two anarchists arrested on Wednesday following a botched holdup of a money delivery van at Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital, who are thought to have links to guerrilla groups Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and Group of Popular Fighters, have been given until Tuesday to prepare their defense.

The arrest of two suspects on Wednesday in connection with a botched holdup of a money delivery van at Thessaloniki's AHEPA Hospital was the result of a months-long investigation by the police's counterterrorism department, Kathimerini understands.

A court sentenced Marios Seisidis to 36 years in prison on Monday for the armed robbery of a National Bank of Greece branch in the center of Athens in 2006.

The court found him guilty on charges of robbery and the attempted murder of three guards at the bank.

Convicted urban guerrilla Costas Sakkas and bank robber Marios Seisidis returned to pre-trial custody on Monday after testifying before an investigating magistrate on charges of belonging to the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group.

After their testimonies, the two suspects were returned to prison where they are in pre-trial custody in connection with other charges.

Convicted urban guerrilla Costas Sakkas and bank robber Marios Seisidis returned to pre-trial custody on Monday after testifying before an investigating magistrate on charges of belonging to the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group.

After their testimonies, the two suspects were returned to prison where they in pre-trial custody in connection with other charges.

A group of around six or seven people stormed into the building housing the Athens appeals court on Monday morning and scattered flyers from the seventh floor of the building in support of terrorist suspect Costas Sakkas and bank robber Marios Seisidis who were to testify in the court later in the day.

Anarchists and far-leftists claimed responsibility for a firebomb attack earlier this month against the police precinct in Exarchia, downtown Athens, saying the assault was an expression of solidarity against jailed anarchists and a protest against the government's creation of a "police state."

Police in Dimitsana, in Arcadia in the Peloponnese, on Thursday arrested Stella Antoniou, who is facing charges of involvement in the urban guerilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, for failing to comply with her bail conditions. Antoniou had been arrested over similar charges in the northern port city of Thessaloniki in July.