Exarcheia

Self-styled anarchists hurled Molotov cocktails against a riot police unit stationed at the intersection of Patision and Tositsa Streets in the Exarchia district of Athens late on Saturday, authorities said.

In a separate incident, masked youths attacked a riot police contingent guarding the headquarters of socialist PASOK on Harilaou Trikoupi Street.

Police in the northern port city of Thessaloniki has detained eight people, including two minors, following clashes with protesters during a visit by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for the inauguration of Greece's largest trade fair late Saturday.

Authorities said 15 police officers were injured during the clashes and several shops and cars damaged.

Four suspects, among whom two are minors, have been identified in connection with three attacks against police in the downtown Athens area of Exarchia.

According to a Greek Police (ELAS) announcement on Thursday, the suspects are three males aged 23, 21 and 17, and a teenage girl aged 15.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Friday expressed concern about a recent spike in illegal activities by self-styled anarchists and hit out at the government for failing to curb the phenomenon, accusing it of "surrendering Athens to a wretched minority who aim to become a state within a state."

Police are seeking the self-styled anarchists who burned a Greek flag in the downtown neighborhood of Exarchia in the early hours of Saturday.

The incident occured shortly before 1 a.m. following clashes at the junction of Patission and Tositsa streets, where anarchists hurled firebombs at riot police vans.

Visitors to the Byzantine and Christian Museum in the Greek capital are treated to a special screening on the massive restoration project that was carried out by a team from National Technical Technical University of Athens on the Tomb of Jesus at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

A riot police officer faces off with masked youths near the National Technical University of Athens on Tuesday as a tourist couple walk by. Clashes between police and self-styled anarchists broke out in the area in the wake of the capital's May Day rallies.

Riot police on Tuesday set up a cordon around the historic building of Athens Polytechnic in downtown Exarchia after coming under attack from self-styled anarchists.

The clashes started after a group of a few dozen self-styled anarchists broke away from a May Day rally in the city center and took refuge in the university building in order to launch the attack on police.

New Democracy reiterated its pledge on Saturday to impose law and order when it comes to power as attacks by self-styled anarchists against riot police units in the central Exarchia district of Athens continue unabated.

A prosecutor launched an investigation on Friday as a spate of lawlessness in central Athens continued for a fourth day, with self-styled anarchists running amok along Patission Street, vandalizing the fronts of 10 shops and a branch of Hellenic Post (ELTA).