Giorgos Kaminis

The Greek capital is hosting just under one-third of some 60,000 refugees and migrants who should be more fairly distributed around other parts of the country, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis said on Wednesday.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis lays a wreath during a ceremony at the Holocaust memorial in the Greek capital to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday.

A group of Golden Dawn supporters, led by prominent MP Yiannis Lagos, on Tuesday morning burst into a primary school in Perama, near Piraeus, which is planning to host classes for refugee children, and threatened members of the local association of parents and guardians.

Two men sit in the courtyard of the Athens Nursing Home during a visit by Mayor Giorgos Kaminis, Monday. Following years of financial mismanagement by the previous administration, which is currently under criminal investigation, a temporary administration appointed by the City of Athens two months ago found out that the once-robust institution is 30 million euros in debt.

Residents and shop owners in parts of central Athens have told Kathimerini that an increasing number of derelict buildings are being occupied by activists and refugees and that appeals to the police and local authorities to intervene have failed to produce a solution.

Angered by the recent spate of violence in the Greek capital, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis called for the resignation of Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas for the second time in a week Thursday.

"How many dumpsters, how many trolley buses, how many kiosks need to be torched and how many statues destroyed before a minister has the decency to resign?" Kaminis told Skai TV.

A row between Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis and Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas intensified on Thursday, after the former reiterated his demand for the latter's resignation.

Speaking on Skai TV, Kaminis repeated a call from earlier in the week for Toskas to step down over his failure to crack down on a spate of attacks against public transport and infrastructure in Athens.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has every right to be angry at the leadership of the Citizens' Protection Ministry.

The area around the historic Athens Polytechnic building and most of the Exarchia district have been allowed to become a base for anyone bent on destroying public property, threatening people's lives and violent activities.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Tuesday said that the Greek capital is experiencing a "security vacuum" and called for the resignation of Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas.

Kaminis made his comments after a meeting with PASOK chief Fofi Gennimata, saying that he is "puzzled" by the ministry's inaction in response to spate of attacks on public infrastructure.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis is seen Tuesday during the inauguration of a free public laundry service at the Homeless Shelter of the City of Athens (KYADA), near the capital's Larissis Station. The facility, which includes five professional washing machines and five dryers, will be available to individuals with no access to basic services such as electricity or water.