Police

A police operation dubbed “Theseus” and aimed at cracking down on street crime in central Athens on Thursday led to 84 arrests.

More than half (40) of those arrested failed to present valid identity cards or visas, while 24 women were taken in for prostitution.

Police also seized some 3,500 contraband items.

A USP 9 MM pistol fired by fugitive Nikos Maziotis at police officers prior to his dramatic arrest in central Athens on Wednesday had not been used in criminal or terrorist activity before, ballistic tests conducted by the police department showed on Thursday.

Three people have been wounded after a shooting occurred in Bulgaria's town of Dolna Banya on Sunday night.

The incident happened after a conflict arose between two Roma clans, Bulgarian National Radio reports.

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A transgender sex worker has sued the Interior Ministry, after being fined by police officers on the grounds that she “caused disturbance."

The plaintiff, identified as T.T., was fined twice on April 24 and 25 after locals from the neighborhood in Ankara where she resides filed a complaint by phone to the police.

Undercover police officers will keep tourists safe from thieves in the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts this summer.

The policemen will be dressed in plain clothes without badges in order to easily blend with the tourist crowds, private TV station BTV reports. The officers will patrol in pairs - one local and one detached Ministry of Interior employee.

Police in the Cretan prefecture of Iraklio said on Wednesday that they had broken two criminal rings operating in the area – one trading in drugs and the other an established usury and extortion racket.

Police in the central Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia on Tuesday released four men who were taken in for questioning following a firebomb attack on a riot police detail posted in the area.

The attack occurred in the early hours of Tuesday on Valtetsiou Street, when unknown assailants launched five Molotov cocktails at the officers.

No one was injured in the attack.

A 54-year-old Dutch national living in western Greece faces charges of threatening bodily harm and illegal weapons possession after allegedly pointing a gun at a motorist over a perceived transgression of the traffic code, police said Monday.

The 49-year-old motorist said the unnamed Dutchman threatened him on a rural road on the outskirts of Vonitsa and then fled in his own vehicle.

Police were seeking five robbers said to have held up a jewelry store in the central Athens district of Plaka in the early hours of Friday morning using a rather unusual strategy.