Evangelismos Hospital

The vice president of the Hellenic Football Federation's (EPO) Central Refereeing Committee, Christoforos Zografos, was in the capital's Evangelismos Hospital on Friday after coming under attack outside his home in the central Athens district of Kolonos by two assailants who struck him on the head and arm with iron bars.

A 26-year-old man died in the early hours of Sunday after being attacked in the central Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia.

Hospital sources told the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency that the man, identified as an Algerian national, was stabbed with a sharp object and arrived at a local hospital at around 4.30 a.m. Medics were unable to save him.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is due on Tuesday to inaugurate the new surgery wing of the Greek capital's Evangelismos Hospital, built with funding from the National Bank of Greece.

Nikos Maziotis, the head of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group who was arrested earlier this month, has been moved to Diavata Prison in Thessaloniki.

Maziotis was transferred from Korydallos jail on Saturday amid tight security.

Counter-terrorism officers are to visit Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis in Evangelismos Hospital on Friday to get the leftist guerrilla's first deposition since his arrest in central Athens on Wednesday after a bloody shootout.

Greek police arrested one of the country's most wanted men – a fugitive convicted of terrorism – during a shootout Wednesday in Athens' central tourist district that left four people wounded, authorities said.

A 67-year-old man who last week accused a senior heart surgeon and department chief at Athens's Evangelismos Hospital of demanding a bribe to perform life-saving surgery, died on Monday after undergoing a quadruple bypass.

The 67-year-old had been rushed to Evangelismos Hospital in late June after suffering a heart attack which required immediate surgery, his family told media.