Increase in lawlessness heightens concerns

Concerns are increasing about the apparent impunity with which self-styled anarchists and other anti-establishment activists are operating following a fresh spate of incidents on Thursday, one involving the increasingly active Rouvikonas (Rubicon) group.

A group of Rouvikonas members entered a notary's office in central Athens and threw fliers bearing anti-austerity slogans in the air before fleeing.

The raid came just a day after 30 of the group's members stormed the Finance Ministry, also in central Athens, managing to reach the office of Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on the sixth floor before police stopped them.

In a statement posted on an anti-establishment website after Wednesday's raid the group said it would continue to target government offices and businesses as well as notaries whom it blames for conducting property foreclosures.

On Thursday,...