Evelpidon Street court

Police in Athens are investigating whether a spate of arson attacks on "establishment" targets and a fight involving members of a soccer fan club may be part of an effort by organized anarchist groups to establish new turf in other parts of the city center after being ousted from the downtown district of Exarchia.

Police have launched an investigation into the torching of four cars parked in a lot at the Evelpidon Street court complex in central Athens in the early hours of Saturday.

A suspicious package that was spotted in the Evelpidon Street court complex in downtown Athens on Friday turned out morning to be crude replica of an explosive device.

Police cordoned off the area and bomb squad experts were called in when the brown paper parcel was spotted outside a door used mainly by lawyers.

Twenty suspected members of the Rouvikonas anarchist group will be read charges of disrupting the peace, disrupting public transportation and inciting violence on Tuesday at the Evelpidon Street court complex in downtown Athens, where security has been beefed up amid concerns of an attack.

A group of around 20 men attacked a police patrol car carrying a suspect behind the Evelpidon Street court complex in downtown Athens on Thursday, causing the officers to take flight, Skai reported.