Giorgos Diamantopoulos

Farmers will stage a tractorcade rally in Athens on Tuesday despite Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis requesting that they not do so, protesting farmers' representatives have said.

Earlier, the minister had called on farmers to use buses or private cars to reach the capital instead.

Greece has picked two former business leaders to run the fund it set up last year to speed up privatizations and make the best use of the country's assets to comply with its international bailout.

A 22-year-old man who is accused of punching Athens Traffic Police chief Giorgos Diamantopoulos in the head in late August following a pro-migrant protest by anarchists in the city center, handed himself in to police in Drapetsona, a suburb of Piraeus, on Friday.

The suspect was granted conditional release and is to be summoned by an investigating magistrate in the coming days.

Police have used footage from a surveillance camera in central Athens to identify the perpetrator of an attack against the head of the capital's traffic police force last week.

Police have used footage from a surveillance camera in central Athens to identify the perpetrator of an attack against the head of the capital's traffic police force last week.