Attica

Police on Tuesday arrested seven suspected members of an extortion racket believed to have targeted more than 20 nightclubs in Athens, Piraeus and western Attica, occasionally using violence.

The suspects, five Albanians and two Greeks, were detained on Tuesday following a series of police raids while another three suspected accomplices were being sought late last night.

An elderly woman died Tuesday after falling on the tracks at the Ano Patissia station of the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP).

The woman fell onto the tracks as a Piraeus-bound train was approaching at about 4.30 p.m., according to the police and fire service.

An Athens court on Friday postponed the trial of Golden Dawn’s Ilias Kasidiaris over charges of attempted grievous bodily harm to March 1st, 2016. The postponement was due to action called by lawyers.

The case centered on charges brought against Kasidiaris by Greek Communist Party (KKE) MP Liana Kanelli, following a televised brawl on June 2012.

The Attica Regional Authority on Thursday said that a team of employees sent to inspect a gas station as part of a crackdown on fuel smuggling and adulteration was attacked by several people at the business and injured.

Attica Governor Rena Dourou has informed judicial authorities of the incident and demanded an inquiry.

The Omonia metro and Kifissia-Piraeus electric railway (ISAP) train stations were expected to close their doors to the public at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday following the announcement of a protest rally organized against "government violence" on Thursday afternoon.

Scientists exploring the 1st century BC Antikythera shipwreck off Greece’s southern coast will be unveiling findings from the first part of an international mission in Piraeus on Wednesday.

The former president of a state-owned athletics center on Athens’s southern coast on Monday confessed to embezzling 800,000 euros from the organization’s coffers and was remanded in pre-trial custody by corruption prosecutor Constantinos Sargiotis.

Two employees of the Attica Regional Authority were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly accepting bribes.

The two men, responsible for hygiene checks on bars and eateries, were arrested after accepting marked banknotes from the owner of an establishment in Kapandriti, northern Attica.

Authorities did not give further details.

By Chryssa Liaggou

Athens is seeking an exit formula for oil giant Shell from the Attica Gas Corporation due to the multinational company’s intransigent attitude in negotiations for the liberalization of the natural gas retail market.

A London court is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether to approve the extradition of a Greek former judge, Antonia Ilia, amid concerns that conditions at Greek prisons fall short of European standards.