Zoe Constantopoulou

The extradition hearing of a 57-year-old Georgian man believed to have headed an international crime ring was postponed for the third time on Monday as the suspect appealed against the request by French authorities.

An Athens court has exonerated 18 police officers accused by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras when he was still in the opposition of using excessive force during an anti-austerity protest in the summer of 2011.

Police officers staged a demonstration outside Thessaloniki Police Headquarters on Thursday to protest their working conditions following violent clashes outside a notary office on Wednesday instigated by people opposing auctions of foreclosed properties.

In a statement on Monday, the union representing notaries of Athens, Piraeus and the Aegean and Dodecanese islands accused Zoe Constantopoulou, former parliament speaker and leader of the far-left anti-bailout Sailing for Freedom party, of harassing them over property foreclosures.

Zoe Constantopoulou, leftist SYRIZA's outspoken former parliamentary speaker and current leader of the radical Sailing for Freedom movement, provoked a social media storm on Saturday after taking a swipe at Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's wife with a scathing Twitter post late on Friday.

Former parliamentary speaker Zoe Constantopoulou, who broke away from SYRIZA in 2015 and formed her own far-left party, is taking legal action against President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras for purportedly not seeking war reparations from Germany.

Zoe Constantopoulou's political demeanor in and outside the walls of the Greek Parliament make it extremely hard to believe that she has the ability, or even the willingness, to take a self-critical and unemotional look at her own words and actions.

President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has congratulated veteran leftist Manolis Glezos for obstructing an effort by fellow leftist and former parliament speaker Zoe Constantopoulou to stop the German ambassador from honoring the victims of a Nazi massacre in the village of Distomo, central Greece, Kathimerini understands.

The trial of dozens of suspects in the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal was postponed again Monday, until March 15, after OTE telecom and the Greek state lodged appeals to seek damages.

A new poll published Wednesday gave opposition New Democracy a 12.9-point lead over ruling SYRIZA.

In the survey, conducted by MRB from December 2-9, 29.1 percent of respondents said they would vote for the conservatives in the event of a general elections, as opposed to 16.2 percent backing the leftist party.