Exarcheia

More than 100 refugees and migrants were evicted by police from a building in the Exarchia district, central Athens, on Tuesday morning, the state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

The squat, known as "Clandestina" and located on Bouboulinas 42 street, had been evacuated again back in April this year. A few days later, the squatters returned.

The Supreme Court prosecutor's office has decided to review the release in summer of Epaminondas Korkoneas, a police special guard convicted for the deadly shooting in December 2008 of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia, it emerged on Monday.

Esteemed architect, professor emeritus of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and Athens Academy member Manolis Korres, best known for his restoration work on the Acropolis, will be delivering a lecture at the NTUA on Thursday, October 31. "The Ancient City as a Work of Art" starts at 6.30 p.m. at the Averof Building and is free of charge. The lecture will be in Greek.

Greek police say they detained a total of 34 people in dawn raids on two squats in Athens mostly occupied by refugees and migrants, as part of a crackdown on lawlessness in the area by the new conservative government.

Dozens of officers cleared two sites in the Exarchia neighborhood of the capital.

Greek police have arrested a total of 31 people in dawn raids on squats in Athens mostly occupied by refugees and migrants, as part of a cleanup drive by the new conservative government.
Dozens of officers cleared two sites in the Exarchia neighborhood of the capital.
The migrants boarded buses to be transferred elsewhere.

People familiar with the neighbourhood see a plot to drive out residents and gentrify Exarcheia in the interests of foreign investors and big real estate firms, which, they say, are buying up properties at prices kept low by politicians perpetually linking the district with drug-dealing and petty crime.

Police officers launched a manhunt on Monday evening to locate a man who escaped from the Exarcheia police station in central Athens, where he was being held.

The 39-year-old escapee, identified as a Greek national, had three robbery convictions.

According to information, the suspect asked to go to the toilet and, while being taken, pushed the officer aside and fled. 

The police on Monday raided an occupied building in the downtown Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, removing some 130 undocumented migrants from the premises. 

The building, on the coroner of Oktavriou Merlie and Prassa Street was once a school and had been under occupation for four years. 

The police on Monday raided an occupied building in the downtown Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, removing dozens of undocumented migrants from the premises. 

The building, on the coroner of Oktavriou Merlie and Prassa Street was once a school and had been under occupation for four years. 

Municipal sanitation, gardening and lighting crews were dispatched to downtown Exarchia on Friday for a spruce-up operation following the removal earlier in the day of a cargo container placed by anarchists in the Athenian district's main square in April 2017 to serve as an "information kiosk" for people "battling the system."