Attica police

The leader of the far-left Popular Unity party Panagiotis Lafazanis has been summoned by Attica police authorities to answer charges of illegal gun use and possession.

The summons is part of a wider investigation ordered by an Athens prosecutor into protests against foreclosures on the properties of overindebted Greeks.

There was no communication between Greece's fire service and the country's police force on the night of July 23 when huge wildfires in Attica led to the deaths of dozens of people, Kathimerini has learned.

Attica police said on Wednesday that they have broken up a wide-reaching drug distribution network and made eight arrests.

The eight suspects - five Albanian nationals and three Greeks - were arrested in a police operation that spread across the city. Reports said the leader of the gang was a 35-year-old Albanian man.

Police investigating an Afghan man who was arrested in central Athens on Saturday carrying dozens of detonators in a backpack say he is implicated in a criminal case while a parallel probe into possible links to guerrilla groups has yet to yield any incriminating evidence. 

Officers of the Attica police's anti-narcotics squad have arrested 23 suspected members of a major international racket believed to have smuggled cocaine into Greece from Latin America using an unusual method: coating dozens of leaflets with the drug in liquified form.

Officers of the Attica police's anti-narcotics squad have arrested 23 suspected members of a major international racket believed to have smuggled cocaine into Greece from Latin America using an unusual method: coating dozens of leaflets with the drug in liquified form.

It's a good thing that POASY, the union representing police officers, was banned by the head of the Attica Police from having the meeting they were planning in Exarchia Square.

French authorities on Wednesday provided the Attica Police's narcotics division, the Hellenic Coast Guard and the Financial Crimes Squad with the names of 11 Greek nationals arrested on Tuesday in southern France in connection with a massive haul of cocaine.

According to sources, the suspects are all young men, none of whom has been previously convicted in Greece.

Police authorities in Athens and the Dodecanese islands in the southeastern Aegean said on Wednesday they had smashed three criminal rings that worked together to distribute large quantities of cocaine, cannabis and hashish from Albania in Greece, and traffic people from Turkey to Greece and beyond.

Attica police said on Monday they had arrested three Pakistani men, aged 17, 24 and 30, on charges of kidnapping, rape and blackmail, among other crimes.