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A group of about 80 people attacked a riot police unit stationed on the corner of Harilaou Trikoupi and Didotou streets in Exarchia, central Athens, early Saturday.

Reports suggested the unidentified assailants launched Molotov cocktails at the officers. No one was detained, while a police investigation is under way.

An Athens court on Monday acquitted 34-year-old defendant Theodoros Sipsas of all charges related to the firebombing of a branch of Marfin Bank in central Athens during an anti-austerity riot in 2010 that led to the death of three bank workers.

DNA traces of at least three people have been found on the weapons cache found over the weekend near PM Aleksandar Vucic's family home in suburban Belgrade.

Riot police officers were targeted by unidentified assailants who launched Molotov cocktails at them in the central Athens district of Exarchia late Saturday and early Sunday, authorities said.

A first attack occurred on Tositsa Street shortly before midnight, while a second assault took place at around 12.30 a.m. on Harilaou Trikoupi Street.

Police were investigating after an assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of Parliament, in central Athens, on Wednesday.

No damage or injuries were reported.

The trial into the deadly May 2010 firebombing of a central Athens branch of Marfin Bank, which resulted in the death of three employees, started on Monday with harrowing testimony from the victims' colleagues.

Protesters in Greece have hurled firebombs and other projectiles at police in front of Parliament before a controversial vote on an austerity bill.

A group of around 40 people threw close to a dozen Molotov cocktails at the Exarchia police precinct in central Athens on Sunday afternoon.

The raid caused damage but no injuries. Some of the perpetrators were also armed with sledgehammers, which they used to attack the guard post outside the police station and three parked cars.

The tension accumulated over the past months in Idomeni erupted into violence on Sunday, when FYROM authorities responded to refugees protesting at Greek-FYROM border with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets.

The Istanbul offices of two pro-government media outlets, daily Yeni ?afak and Yeni Akit, were vandalized with Molotov cocktails and weapons early on Feb. 11. 

Three or four masked attackers launched an attack on Yeni ?afak's offices in the Yenido?an neighborhood of Istanbul's Bayrampa?a district at 5 a.m. on Feb. 11.