Evelpidon court

The first 30 people charged over the clashes between rival football fans near the AEK Athens stadium in Nea Filadelfia were transferred to the Evelpidon court complex under heavy security on Friday. They are to testify before three examining magistrates who have been assigned to the case, with the 25th regular examining magistrate acting as lead and the other two as her assistants.

A police van that was transporting a convicted terrorist was involved in a crash with another five vehicles in Athens on Thursday afternoon, lightly injuring two police officers.

Two men who were arrested last Saturday during a sweeping counter-terrorism operation in Athens appeared before an examining magistrate on Tuesday.

The suspects, aged 41 and 45, are accused of involvement in terrorism activities as alleged members of the Revolutionary Self-Defense terrorist group, and of possession of explosives and firearms.

A leading member of self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas received a five-month suspended sentence on Wednesday from a misdemeanors court in Athens.

Police officers scrambled to shield a 58-year-old man charged with the murder of a 32-year-old tax officer from angry protesters outside the capital's Evelpidon court complex on Friday. In his testimony before an investigating magistrate, the man allegedly admitted to stabbing Theodora Zeberi 14 times on the afternoon of October 18.

A 58-year-old man being charged with the murder of a 32-year-old tax officer was attacked and beaten by angry citizens on Wednesday as police officers escorted him from the capital's Evelpidon court complex after a magistrate gave him until Friday to prepare his defense.

A 52-year-old man charged with raping and torturing a 20-year-old woman whom he had been holding hostage in his basement apartment in Athens appeared before an investigating magistrate in Athens on Monday and was given an extension until Tuesday to prepare his defense.

Administrative employees at Greek universities have announced a 24-hour strike on Monday, in protest at a trial against 14 of their colleagues for taking part in a three-month strike in 2013 against layoffs that were part of a mobility scheme in the public sector. University staffers were scheduled to host a rally outside the Evelpidon court complex in Athens at 9 a.m.

A 21-year-old man accused of ramming two men with his car, killing a 45-year-old man and injuring a 31-year-old, was remanded in custody on Thursday.

The incident, which took place in the western Athens district of Egaleo, western Athens, last Friday, sparked a vendetta between the two families, both members of the local Roma community.

Arsonists and vandals targeted a series of banks and public buildings in overnight attacks that caused no injuries, police said on Friday.

Shortly after 10 p.m. on Thursday night, assailants used a sledgehammer to smash the glass facade of a branch of Alpha Bank in Glyfada, southern Athens, before lobbing Molotov cocktails inside the premises.