Vandalism

A memorial dedicated to the Jews of Kastoria in northern Greece who perished in the Holocaust was vandalized on Christmas Day, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reported on Wednesday. The unknown perpetrators reportedly sprayed both sides of the marble slab commemorating the event with black paint.

Unidentified assailants Thursday vandalized a pizzeria in Thessaloniki whose owner is alleged to have beaten up a former employee.

The attack, which occurred at around 3.30 a.m., was carried out by two individuals who smashed the business's glass facade and sprayed graffiti on the walls before fleeing on a motorcycle, according to the voria.gr news website.

Police referred two Bulgarian men to prosecutors Tuesday for allegedly spraying graffiti on stone benches and other property at the memorial park in Hiroshima dedicated to the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city, reports Japan Today. 

Police arrested one person and temporarily detained another five on Monday following the vandalism of the building in central Athens housing the French Institute.

A group of assailants, believed to be members of anti-establishment groups, used red paint to deface the building on Sina Street before fleeing.

(MENAFN - The Conversation) Decades after the fall of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe, Soviet World War II monuments continue to arouse significant controversy in many former Eastern Bloc countries where they are either being dismantled by law or vandalised by activists.

The Culture Ministry said on Thursday that an investigation has been launched into acts of vandalism carried out by two people at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens last month.

In a statement, the ministry said two people entered rooms holding both temporary and permanent exhibits and sprayed a number of objects with an oily substance.

Police said on Thursday that a 24-year-old Afghan national was arrested on Monday on charges of puncturing the tires of parked cars in the Athens neighborhood of Kypseli.

The suspect, who has been previously arrested on similar charges, has been linked to at least 31 cases of tire vandalism on Tinou, Spetson, Hydras, Eginis and Evelpidon streets.

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), the largest Greek-American organization in the United States, has condemned an attack by left-wing protesters on a statue of former US president Harry Truman in central Athens.

A spate of lawlessness in central Athens by self-styled anarchists, including acts of vandalism and arson, is being coordinated by jailed members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire guerrilla group, Kathimerini understands. 

Unknown assailants smashed the facades of several shops on Ermou Street in central Athens late on Tuesday.

There was no information on who committed the vandalism or why.