Korydallos Prison

Giorgos Spanos, the president of the ETEKA fuel company and the Atromitos soccer club, was jailed pending trial on Monday along with another four suspected members of a huge fuel smuggling racket.

Police on Monday arrested three men for trying to throw a parcel into the yard of the capital’s Korydallos Prison.

The parcel, which was flung from the roof of a nearby apartment building, contained contraband, including 119 grams of cannabis, 54 grams of heroin, three cell phones, a SIM card and two USB cables.

Inmates held in Greece's only prison hospital are refusing food and medication as part of a protest campaign against what they see as dire conditions in the institution.