Hellenic Police

Authorities in northern Greece are investigating a drug trafficking gang following the arrest of a 27-year-old woman and the seizure of nearly 8.6 kilograms of heroin.

The leadership of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) has reportedly refused to appropriately honor the officers that in summer 2021 found intact two world-famous paintings that had been stolen nine years earlier from the National Gallery in Athens.

A police officer and a special guard who were arrested on drugs-related offenses have been suspended, the Hellenic Police announced on Tuesday.

An internal administrative inquiry was also ordered for the two policemen, who serve at precinct in southern suburbs of Athens.

Three men suspected of a robbery spree against churches on the Ionian island of Kefalonia were arrested on Monday at the western Greek port of Killini, the Hellenic Police said in an announcement on Tuesday.

The Hellenic Police opened a disciplinary inquiry on Wednesday into an officer who shot four rounds in the air after he was attacked by black-clad youths in a densely populated district in central Athens earlier in the day.

A shooting incident occurred on Tuesday night in the coastal suburb of Voula, in southern Athens, according to initial reports received by the Hellenic Police (ELAS). Three individuals were injured - one from a firearm and two from sharp objects.

The worrying rise in juvenile criminality has alerted authorities, who have embarked on a campaign to collect data to analyze and, ultimately, tackle the phenomenon.

One of the two Pakistani nationals arrested for planning to bomb a Jewish restaurant in central Athens, which doubled as a cultural and religious center, has already admitted his part in the plan, Kathimerini understands.

The two will face an examining magistrate and a prosecutor Saturday.

The Hellenic Police said Tuesday that in a coordinated operation with the country's National Intelligence Service (EYP), they had "dismantled a terrorist network that, guided from abroad, was planning attacks against carefully selected targets within Greece."

A joint operation between the police's drug unit in Athens and its security division in Kalamata, southern Greece, had led to the dismantling of a drug racket worth at least 350,000 euros, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) said in a press release on Tuesday.