I (Almost) Got Away With It

Police have arrested an escaped convict who was serving a life sentence for the murder of a businessman on the island of Mykonos.

The arrest was made on Monday in an apartment in the Athens suburb of Kallithea.

Police in western Greece have seized more than 20 kilograms of marijuana and arrested two suspects on smuggling charges.

At least 7.500 protesters took part in the riots.
Police said that the investigation is ongoing.

Six suspected members of a lucrative luxury car racket - six Greeks and two foreign nationals - faced an Athens prosecutor on Friday on multiple criminal charges.

Over the past year-and-a-half, the racket is alleged to have stolen dozens of luxury cars before fitting them with fake license plates and selling them on or selling their parts, according to police.

Police on Friday arrested a man for stealing around 1,000 euros, 11 silver incense burners and two silver cups from a church in Halkidiki in northern Greece. He had hidden the loot in a nearby forest.

According to police he pulled off the robbery by posing as a pilgrim, so that his movements in the church would go unnoticed.

Unidentified assailants fired against police officers as they fled the scene of a break-in in the northern Athens suburb of Metamorphosi early Friday morning.

The suspects had broken into a department store from the main entrance at about 4 a.m. and attempted to remove a cash machine (ATM).

Police on Monday arrested a woman in connection with the killing of an Afghan woman inside the Moria identification centre on Lesvos on May 22.

The suspect appeared before a prosecutor on Monday facing charges of intentional homicide and violating laws on arms possession.

The caustic substance that was splashed over a 34-year-old woman during an assault in southern Athens last week was identified at the State General Laboratory as sulphuric acid (vitriol), police sources told state-run news agency ANA-MPA on Monday.

Officers of police's DIAS motorcycle-riding unit found two kilos and 210 grams of cocaine inside a vehicle parked in Athens' southern district of Glyfada on Friday.

The drugs were divided in four packages, police said.

The car had been reported stolen and had no license plates.

The investigation has been handed over to the Attica Security's Anti-Drugs Squad. 

A 34-year-old woman in Athens suffered severe burns to her face when a woman sneaked up on her as she was heading to work in the district of Kallithea on Wednesday morning and splashed her with a caustic substance, police sources cited by state-run news agency ANA-MPA said Monday.

The suspect, who was wearing a face mask, fled after the attack.