Exarchia

Members of self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas threw flyers outside the Greek foreign ministry on Wednesday afternoon to express solidarity with Palestinians and nine alleged members of the Turkish DHKP-C terrorist group who have been jailed in Greece since 2018.

The refugee problem, the legislation on university asylum (which prevents police from entering campuses) and lawlessness in Athens's Exarchia district: All three issues have prompted criticism from the conservative opposition against what it says is a weak or absent state.

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) was not aware of the anti-drug operation conducted by the Coast Guard in the central Athenian district of Exarchia on Thursday night, where two officers were injured in an ambush by masked men, Citizens' Protection Minister Olga Gerovasili said on Friday.
"ELAS didn't go there, it was not informed," she reportedly told radio station News247.

Two Greek Coast Guard officers were injured when their unit was attacked by a group of about 50 masked individuals shortly after a drug-related raid in a house in the district of Exarchia on Thursday night.

Authorities had been tipped by an Iraqi national whom they had arrested earlier in Piraeus with 200 grams of cannabis and were looking for his supplier.

Epaminondas Korkoneas, an ex-police officer convicted to life over the 2008 death of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos, testified before a court in Lamia, central Greece, on Thursday, the penultimate day of his appeal.

Greek riot police used a water cannon to disperse protesters in central Athens, during an anniversary rally on Thursday marking the 2008 police shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Police reportedly detained 30 people in Athens, including some minors, and one in Thessaloniki during clashes with hooded youths after the end of the protest marches in both cities.

New protest marches were underway in Greece Thursday evening on the 10th anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager, hours after violent initial demonstrations where masked youths attacked police with firebombs and stones.

Protesters threw homemade firebombs and chunks of concrete smashed off buildings and pavements against riot officers in downtown Athens on Thursday, during a march marking the 10th anniversary of the deadly shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos by an off-duty policeman in the central Exarchia district.

The Syntagma metro station in central Athens will close at 12 noon on Thursday, the Greek Police (ELAS) has said.

The decision is part of security measures for policing marches and rallies marking the 10th anniversary of the killing by a policeman of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in the downtown district of Exarchia in 2008.

Police have released 19 suspects detained following a firebomb attack on security officers outside the residence of State Minister Alekos Flambouraris on Tuesday evening.

One officer was slightly injured during the incident which involved some 20 assailants.