Kypseli

Police said on Wednesday they had dismantled a gang of minors accused of systematically stealing from shops in areas of Attica.

The gang has been linked to 26 cases of theft from shops in Omonia, Kypseli, Galatsi, Ambelokipi, Palaio Faliro, Peristeri, Aegaleo and Nikaia and one house. A 16-year-old Greek and two Albanian nationals, aged 15 and 17, were arrested on Tuesday.

A court in Athens convicted on Monday a 30-year-old woman to life in prison over the brutal murder of her seven-year-old son in 2017.

An overnight arson attack destroyed two vans owned by private gas company.

No one was hurt in the incident which took place in the downtown Athens district of Kypseli around 1.45 a.m. Wednesday.

The motives for the attack were unclear.

Police have launched an investigation. 

Officers arrested on Tuesday night a man who held a party in his apartment in the central Athenian district of Kypseli with 42 guests, in defiance of the measures to restrict the spread of the coronavirus.

Kostas Prapoglou's apartment in the downtown Athens district of Kypseli really is the "time capsule" he describes. It looks out over the openness of Fokionos Negri Square and is a perfect period piece of 1960s middle-class Athenian residential architecture.

A woman prepares to take a seat at an open-air cinema in Kypseli, central Athens, Monday evening. Open-air movie theaters across Greece opened their doors to the public following the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions. They are only allowed to run at 75 percent capacity, with open bars and no breaks. Only cinema employees are obliged to wear face masks.

Police in Athens are investigating whether a spate of arson attacks on "establishment" targets and a fight involving members of a soccer fan club may be part of an effort by organized anarchist groups to establish new turf in other parts of the city center after being ousted from the downtown district of Exarchia.

A 52-year-old man is accused of instigating clashes between police and partygoers in the downtown Athens district of Kypseli in the early hours of Saturday by calling the 100 emergency number and claiming he had been mugged at knifepoint.

Three people sustained minor injuries after a strong quake, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale, struck the seaside town of Parga in western Greece.

According to the National Observatory's Geodynamic Institute, the quake was recorded at 2.49 a.m., with its epicenter located 14 kilometers northwest of Parga, at a depth of 10 kilometers.

Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis on Wednesday unveiled plans to revamp 19 playgrounds across the capital as part of his broader plan to improve the daily life of city-dwellers.