Exarchia

Riot police units stationed in the central district of Exarchia came under a hail of Molotov cocktails hurled by self-styled anarchists at midnight on Thursday

The first attack took place on a unit on Tositsa Street when a group of around 30 people hurled firebombs.

The union representing Athens police officers on Wednesday filed suit against the administration of the Greek Police (ELAS) for putting officers' lives at risk.

The suit pertains to a gun attack on January 10 against a riot police unit posted outside the offices of the PASOK party in the downtown district of Exarchia, in which one policeman was injured.

Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas on Thursday brushed off criticism in the wake of an attack on riot police in downtown Athens that left one officer injured.

Speaking to anchor Antonis Srioter of Alpha TV’s nightly news bulletin, the leader of Greece’s major opposition New Democracy (ND) party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to repeal the government’s “illegal procedures” to permanently appoint seasonal contracted employees in the public sector.

A group of unidentified individuals attacked an anti-riot police unit in the district of Exarchia, Athens in the early hours of Monday. The group hurled petrol bombs against the police officers and parked vehicles on the corner of Kallidromiou and Ikonomou street. The police officers were on routine patrol in the area at the time of the attack. There have been no reports of injuries.

Greek police arrested six people and took 24 others into custody, during Tuesday’s widespread violent protests, on occasion of the 8th anniversary of the murder of a student named Andreas Grigoropoulos by police.

Police in Athens on Tuesday ordered the closure of two central metro stations amid concerns of violence at a rally marking the eighth anniversary since the police killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos.

The Panepistimio metro station at Athens University will close at 3 p.m. and Syntagma at 4 p.m., and will not serve commuters until police give the all-clear.

Around 40 hooded anti-establishment protesters threw petrol bombs and stones at riot police in central Athens on Saturday, setting fire to a trolley bus.

Police fired teargas to try and control the crowd outside Athens Polytechnic University, near the central Exarchia district, a Bohemian quarter popular with artists and left-wing intellectuals.

The woman a Village Voice magazine cover recently called “America’s Sweetheart of Smut”, the beautiful Stoya,  toured central Athens’ Exarchia district last weekend, tweeting her experiences of drinking raki and listening to local “media types” to fans around the world.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has said he and his wife came under attack by anarchists while dining in a central Athens restaurant.

In a statement Wednesday, Varoufakis said he and his wife were in the Exarchia district, a neighborhood popular with extreme leftists and anarchists, Tuesday night when a group barged into the restaurant.