Exarcheia
The empty streets of Athens
Saturday evenings and Sundays make you painfully aware that there's a pandemic, as the center of Athens is like a desert landscape come Saturday afternoon. Thoroughfares like Solonos Street, especially, become ghosts of their former selves. Combined with the early nightfall and chilly weather, you definitely feel that something's wrong.
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Recent arson attacks, violence may be linked to anarchist turf war
Police in Athens are investigating whether a spate of arson attacks on "establishment" targets and a fight involving members of a soccer fan club may be part of an effort by organized anarchist groups to establish new turf in other parts of the city center after being ousted from the downtown district of Exarchia.
In Pandemic-Era Greece, Fighting for Control of the Square
The raid, following another one two days earlier, triggered fierce debate over the role of police in enforcing public health measures as Greece begins to lift its COVID-19 lockdown, amid accusations that security forces - frequently accused of acting unaccountably - are being used by the conservative government to promote gentrification in a city where years of extreme austerity since 2010 have
Value of stolen university equipment estimated at 200,000
The value of the equipment stolen from the laboratories and offices of professors at the National Technical University of Athens and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens by two Albanian nationals with a prior criminal record has been estimated at 200,000 euros, according to police.
Police nab University thief; another at large
Two Albanians, ages 37 and 28, are responsible for a series of equipment thefts from professors' offices and laboratories at the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) between the end of February and mid-April, police say.
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Twenty-six suspected Kurdish militants detained, weaponry seized in counterterrorism sweep
Greece's anti-terrorism service detained 26 people and seized heavy weaponry including anti-tank arms in a large, ongoing counterterrorism operation in central Athens on Thursday to dismantle a suspected far-leftist militant group, police sources cited by state-run news agency ANA-MPA said.
Twenty-six suspected Kurdish militants detained in counterterrorism sweep
Greece's anti-terrorism service raided a house and an office of a rights committee for Kurds in central Athens on Thursday, detaining 26 people on suspected of links to a far-leftist militant group outlawed in Turkey, police sources cited by state-run news agency ANA-MPA said.
Equipment worth more than 100,000 euros stolen from university in Athens
More than 100,000 euros' worth of equipment has been stolen from the National Technical University of Athens, it emerged on Friday.
According to reports, the incident occurred on Wednesday in the chemical engineering wing on the university campus in Zografou.
Minister vows to end criminality in downtown district by end March
Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis said the downtown district of Exarchia, where police has been conducting a series of raids to clear squats and arrest drug traffickers, will be "handed back to its residents" by the end of March.
Rise is transfers putting strain on bigger universities
Looser regulations governing student transfers between universities introduced under the previous leftist-led government have resulted in a steady rise in first-year student populations, putting a strain on resources at Greece's most popular universities.