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The charred body of a man believed to be Christos Gialias, a well-known businessman with ties to soccer was found in a vehicle in the West Attica suburb of Mandra on Wednesday afternoon, police have said.

As reported by police, shooting was heard in Mandra's Agias Aikaterinis Street, which prompted a response by officers who found the vehicle in flames and body inside it.

In 2022, the Russian arms concern "Kalashnikov" fulfilled 45 state orders in the field of defense and 24 contracts within the framework of military-technical cooperation. In addition, the company is planning production organization activities within the framework of a license agreement, its press service announced today, TASS reported.

According to Defense Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, sending large quantities of weapons to Ukraine could weaken Greece's defense, especially on the islands.
Greece, by the way, sent two transport planes to Ukraine earlier, as part of the military assistance aid-package.

Attica police have arrested four suspected members of a racket believed to have been involved in several armed robberies targeting security firms making cash deliveries to banks.
Officers arrested three foreign nationals - two 44-year-olds and one aged 36 - as well as a 33-year-old Greek man.

Attica police said Tuesday that they had arrested four suspected members of a racket believed to have conducted several armed robberies targeting security firms making cash deliveries to banks.

Officers arrested three foreign nationals - two aged 44 and one aged 36 - as well as a 33-year-old Greek man.

The attack against eight Hellenic Coast Guard officers in the middle of the capital on Thursday night by a group of about 50 masked individuals highlights the alarming and growing presence of organized armed gangs in the central Athens district of Exarchia, which has long served as a base for anti-establishment groups. 

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Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a rare 1970s model, saying the new technology will rival Elon Musk's Tesla.

The brand, best known for the AK-47 machine gun, presented the decidedly retro-looking pale blue prototype, the CV-1, at a defense expo outside Moscow.

Police on Crete have detained a 32-year-old man after finding a large cache of weapons an  explosives at his home in Rethymno, according to a statement released on Thursday.

The suspect was arrested on Wednesday after officers searched his home and turned up two Kalashnikov assault rifles, an Uzi submachine gun, nine hand grenades and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

And according to the Russian website, "the lion's share" came from the war-ravaged Balkans to be used "in a number of attention-grabbing cases."

"Today, Scandinavia's streets are awash with foreign and previously unseen gun brands, such as the Serbian Zastava and Czech-Serbian Scorpion machine guns, amid an unparalleled upswing in shooting incidents," the website said.

A driver who attacked police on Paris's Champs-Elysees on Monday was a 31-year-old man who had been on a security watchlist since 2015 for membership of "the radical Islamist movement," sources close to the probe said.