Keerfa

Paramedics called to a police precinct in central Athens last Saturday to pick up a 38-year-old migrant from Pakistan found him dead.

Police in central Athens have conducted a large-scale sweep targeting people with pending convictions and arrest warrants as well as foreign nationals without residence papers.

Various units participated in the sweep, including security police and officers from the aliens directorate.

Ilias Kasidiaris, the convicted former spokesman of the now-defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has resigned from the Athens Municipal Council after being sworn into office in late December.

Anti-fascist group KEERFA on Wednesday expressed outrage over the arrest earlier in the day of lawyer Takis Zotos for spray-painting over graffiti in support of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.

Hundreds of illegal immigrants being held at a Greek detention center launched a hunger strike Monday to protest the death of a Pakistani inmate and conditions at the overcrowded camp.