Nikos Toskas

Alternate Minister for Citizens Protection Nikos Toskas said in London that Hellenic Police will recruit foreigners who live in Greece, citing the example of Scotland Yard.

"We are obliged to examine such approaches so as to maintain order in the best possible way," Toskas stated according to a report in Ta Nea newspaper in Athens on Friday.

A dispute between the authorities and organizers of Sunday's large 'Macedonia' rally in Athens continued on Monday with Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas defending the Greek Police's (ELAS) estimate that 140,000 people attended.

Organizers claimed that turnout was much higher: between a million and a million and a half.

Greece has launched an investigation after its foreign minister received a letter from unknown sources threatening him and his family over efforts to resolve a dispute over the name of Macedonia, the Greek civil protection minister said on Friday, cited by Reuters.

Referring to a threatening letter he received on Thursday, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Friday in a tweet that certain TV stations and papers have slandered him for years so as to make him a target.

"They are annoyed that no one can hold me back," he said, adding that they are moral instigators of these threats.

In a letter to Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, the union of Hellenic Police officers (POASY) on Wednesday underlined its opposition to a government decision to boost security for notarial firms involved in controversial property foreclosures.

In a letter to Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, the union of Hellenic Police officers (POASY) on Wednesday underlined its opposition to a government decision to boost security for notarial firms involved in controversial property foreclosures.

After months of investigation, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) is poised to present prosecutors with a file on the activities of Rouvikonas (Rubicon in Greek), the anarchist group that has recently stepped up its attacks on political and business targets, in a bid to investigate whether its members can face tougher penalties.

The heads of the Athens and Piraeus bar associations have called on Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas to tighten security at courthouses and increase protection for advocates.

Alternate Minister for Public Order Nikos Toskas has personally pledged to the Israeli ambassador in Greece to have the Rouvikonas members who attacked it on Monday arrested.

Extreme left group Rouvikonas made the Embassy of Israel its latest target, hurling paint against the building in northern Athens.

Several key ministers attended a conference in Elefsina, western Attica, on Saturday, aimed at improving anti-flood works in the region following catastrophic floods last month that killed more than 20 people and wreaked massive damage to state infrastructure and private property.

Regional authorities have already approved a 500-million-euro program for anti-flood works.