Attica Security Directorate

The identity details and photographs of four Greek citizens, members of a criminal organization that committed thefts from homes of elderly people in areas of the southern suburbs of Attica pretending to be employees of an electricity company.

Their identities are as follows: 

ALKO George of Ioannis and Areti, born 15-3-1984 in Ano Liosia Filis, Attica,

Georgia Adilini, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court, has called for an investigation into organised crime activities on Mykonos, other Cyclades islands, and even in Athens and Thessaloniki.

A grenade explosion occurred on Pyrgou Street in the western Athens suburb of Agia Varvara at around 6 a.m. Sunday, causing damage to at least four cars.

A bomb disposal unit found remnants of a defensive-type grenade, a pin and two shells at the scene.

Divisions have emerged within the Hellenic Police (ELAS) after the relocation in recent weeks to Attica and Thessaloniki of hundreds of officers, who are being paid an additional allowance of 4,200 euros per month, in an attempt to boost visible policing in the country's two largest urban centers.

The 48-year-old man, previously detained on Thursday morning in connection with the murder of a 50-year-old musician found deceased in a downtown Athens apartment, has been formally arrested.

A 50-year-old man was found dead inside an apartment in the central district of Exarchia on Thursday morning, police said.

Initial information suggested that the man suffered a head injury, while a hammer and a knife were found next to his body.

The victim was being hosted in the said apartment on Harilaou Trikoupi Street by the 48-year-old house owner, who has been detain.

A 56-year-old man was arrested on Saturday morning in downtown Athens after being accused of child pornography, rape and abuse of a minor. 

Police in Athens arrested three people and detained more than 90 in a large operation to evict squatters in two buildings in the central district of Exarchia early Thursday morning. 
The raid on Tzavella street followed a similar operation in a house on Solomou street where three people were detained for possession of cannabis.

Twenty members of anarchist group Rouvikonas attempted to barge into the Citizens Protection Ministry on Monday morning but were prevented by the ministry's guards.

Police said in a press release the suspects were stopped at the outer perimeter of the building, on Kanellopoulou avenue, detained and transferred at the Attica Security Directorate.