Voukourestiou Street

Two hand grenades were found during renovation work in an apartment in the upscale district of Kolonaki, in central Athens, on Saturday morning.

The grenades were found under the floor of the house and police was alerted, according to information.

The palm trees that lined central Panepistimiou Street from the turning to Voukourestiou Streets until Amerikis Street in central thens have been uprooted by municipal workers due to the work for the Grand Walk project.

A group of unknown assailants involved in incidents during the protest rallies in Athens vandalized the car of SYRIZA representative Olga Gerovasili on Thursday. 

Roughly a month ago, just after a bunch of self-styled anarchists ran amok on Voukourestiou Street in downtown Athens, a "leading" yet nameless member of the anti-establishment Rouvikonas (Greek for Rubicon) group heralded the siege of downtown Athens by supporters of November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas.

Guards at the Greek Parliament in Athens detained a 65-year-old man who threw a gas canister inside the building's yard on Monday afternoon.
The suspect, who was walking on the adjacent sidewalk of Vasilisis Sofias avenue in central Athens, threw a gas canister inside the yard, which did not explode.

Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated his pledge to end lawlessness in central Athens on Friday during a visit to Voukourestiou Street where vandals smashed window displays on Thursday night.

It was a question over which debate had been growing: What would the first issue of Vogue Greece have on its cover? The answer came in the form of two covers at a festive and occasionally emotional soiree last Saturday hosted by publisher Kathimerini at the perennially popular Zonars cafe-restaurant, on the corner of downtown Panepistimiou and Voukourestiou streets in the center of Athens.

Bernard-Henri Levy has been one of the most prominent figures of the French intelligentsia for a good four decades. He was at the forefront of the Nouveaux Philosophes (New Philosophers) movement that broke from its communist roots and sought to deconstruct Marxism.

The government crash test took place last night at Exarheia in Athens, known as a cesspool of anarchy, when riots broke out in protest against the government's agreement with the Eurogroup following the presentation of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis' reforms list.