Police

On Saturday afternoon a Golden Dawn “assault squad” comprised of about 80 members marched to the scene of Pavlos Fyssas’ murder and ripped down a memorial banner, before assaulting the nearby Resalto squat. The neo-Nazi gang also dropped leaflets and spray painting nationalist slogans. Video footage and eye witness report from the assault shows that […]

The police reported the arrest of an armed thief, who had barricaded himself in a vacant house in Egaleo, after having broken into a store in Peristeri on Friday morning. According to the police report the man had broken into a store in Peristeri at about 4am on Friday morning, but was noticed by neighbors […]

A 30-year-old man who claimed to have a hand grenade in his pocket and threatening to blow himself up in front of the White Tower of Thessaloniki has been arrested by the police. Police negotiators were called out to the White Tower and after a few hours managed to apprehend the 30-year-old man. It has […]

The police believe that a violent reprisal after announcing a four million euro bounty on Christodoulos Xiros, Nikos Maziotis, Paula Roupa and the shooters in Neo Iraklio based on previous experience. In October 2009 six armed men opened fire against the Police Department of Agia Paraskevi after a 600,000 euro bounty was announced for the […]

Tasos Theofilou, who is accused of being a member of the Conspiracy of Fire Cells and participating in a bank robbery in Paros which resulted in the death of a taxi driver, has appeared before the Felony Courts in Athens to state his plea. In his plea, Theofilou denied any relation to the Conspiracy of […]

The latest developments and instances of armed violence in Greece have caused serious concern to the authorities, which now fear that domestic terrorist and militant organizations may be planning a daring and symbolic attack. The biggest fear is that prominent divs in organized crime, such as Vasilis Paleokostas, may have established contact and cooperation with […]

The police announced that a police sergeant has been suspended and is awaiting trial for forgery and illegal firearm possession charges and will also face an administrative inquiry. Τhe police sergeant appears to have taken a leaf out of Michalis Liapis’ book, as he was found to have affixed counterfeit license plates on two motorcycles […]

The courts decided to release Kostas Sakkas on bail, after he was recently re-arrested when fingerprints of his were finally identified five years after being found in hideouts used by the Conspiracy of Fire Cells (SPF) militant group. Sakkas, who was on hunger strike last year, repeated his claim that he has never been a […]

The 17 November member Christodoulos Xiros, who escaped from prison during a scheduled leave earlier in January, has published a video and a manifesto online, addressing his escape and intention to resume his militant activities. The video and text were uploaded at the athens.indymedia.org website on Monday afternoon. In the accompanying video, the 56-year-old Xiros […]

A total of 18 riot (MAT) and motorcycle (DELTA) police officers will stand trial today, for the violent suppression of a demonstration that took place in Athens on the 29th of June 2011 in relation to a controversial vote for the midterm bailout program in Parliament. The prosecuting judges took the initiative to prosecute the […]