Korydallos Prison

Officers of the Greek Police's anti-narcotics squad carried out a raid on the psychiatric unit of Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison early on Tuesday.

The search, which was carried out with the prison guards, yielded 19 packages containing 9 grams of cocaine and two containing around 5 grams of cannabis, as well as a dagger and six cell phones.

Officers of the Greek Police's anti-narcotics squad carried out a raid on the psychiatric unit of Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison in the early hours of Tuesday morning. 

The search, which was carried out with the prison guards, yielded an unspecified quantity of drugs along with makeshift knives. 

The capital's high-security Korydallos Prison is to be relocated to an old NATO base in Aspropyrgos, western Attica, according to the recommendation of an expert committee commissioned by the Citizens' Protection Ministry, it emerged on Tuesday.

A security guard at Athens' high security Korydallos prison killed himself with his service pistol on Tuesday morning, media reported.

The 50-year-old man was reportedly on leave but showed up at the office of the prison's exterior security, where he served, and shot himself in front of his colleagues.

A defendant in the ongoing trial against Golden Dawn testifies in a special court at Korydallos Prison, in Piraeus, Monday.

Athens lawyer Giorgos Antonopoulos, who was remanded in custody in April in connection with a so-called "mafia" said to be operating in the capital's high-security Korydallos Prison, appealed for his release Wednesday, citing an attempt on his life.

Former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos was ordered back to prison to serve out the remainder of a 19-year sentence for bribe-taking and money laundering on Monday.

Public outrage was sparked over the state of the country's penitentiaries on Wednesday after two makeshift casinos, a cafeteria serving espresso coffee and crepes, as well as a workshop making scores of improvised knives were discovered inside Athens' maximum-security Korydallos Prison during an investigation in wings A, B and E that had been ordered by a prosecutor in the wake of a riot betwee

A clash between inmates in two different wings of Korydallos Prison Tuesday left an Afghan detainee and a prison guard with injuries, while underlining the tense climate at Attica's high-security penitentiary.

Greek police on Friday were seeking a 27-year-old associate of Panagiota Roupa, a leading member of the Revolutionary Struggle guerrilla group, after she violated the terms of her conditional release, failing to report to her local police station.

Constantina Athanasopoulou had been arrested in January 2017 as an associate of Roupa, herself then a fugitive.