Hellenic Police

The revelation of the president of the community of Chora Gortynias, Dimitris Dimitrakopoulos, that a brigadier of the Hellenic Police, whom he contacted to ask for the assistance of a fire truck, asked him if there were political strings, has become an issue.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and opposition leader Alexis Tsipras could hardly find any common ground in Thursday's final day of debate over the education reform bill.

The government and the main opposition on Tuesday continued their clash over the education bill, which, notably, provides for the introduction of a police corps into universities.

Wednesday's final vote on the bill will coincide with a protest staged by teachers' associations of all education levels, as well as university students' and parents' associations.

A series of attacks were carried out by unknown assailants from 8.30 p.m. on Thursday until 3 a.m. on Friday on cash machines, banks, a Hellenic Post branch, a local town hall and a vehicle, in various areas of Attica.

According to the Hellenic Police (ELAS), the perpetrators initially vandalized ATMs in Petralona.

The three foreign nationals (two Albanians and one Croatian) who were arrested on Friday in connection with 324 kilos of cocaine that was confiscated during a police operation in the center of Thessaloniki were remanded in pre-trial detention on Tuesday.

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) is drafting a case file against the organizers of Thursday's protest march of some 4,000 students and teachers against an education reform bill, in defiance of a ban on public gatherings of more than 100 people announced earlier in the week on the grounds of health concerns.

The Athens Police Directorate is compiling a case file against the organizers of Thursday's protest of students and educators opposing education reforms.

Student, teacher and parent unions and groups are planning a demonstration in central Athens on Thursday to protest against a draft education bill that aims to introduce changes to tertiary education.

The ban by the Hellenic Police on large gatherings of more than 100 people to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus until February 1 was denounced Tuesday in Parliament by opposition parties as an affront to democracy.

A ban on large gatherings, imposed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, has been introduced until February 1, by order of the head of the Hellenic Police (ELAS).