Koukaki

The so-called commercial triangle of Athens, which is marked by the squares of Syntagma, Omonia and Monastiraki squares, and includes very popular areas such as Monastiraki, Plaka and Psyrri, and the district of Koukaki are the Greek capital's most popular neighborhoods for short-term rentals.

An armed robbery was reported in a bank located in the Athenian district of Koukaki on Thursday morning.

According to reports, a person wearing a full-face mask entered the bank branch on Syngrou Avenue shortly before 10 a.m., brandishing a weapon.

The attacker took an unspecified amount of cash and fled. 

The head of Athens' Proseutors office Evangelos Ioannidis on Tuesday pushed back against accusations that the misdemeanor charges filed against twenty people arrested last Saturday in an operation to remove anarchists from two squats in central Athens were too lenient.

Twenty people arrested in Saturday's operations to remove people from two squats in central Athens will be tried Monday on various charges, all misdemeanors.

The charges include disturbance of the peace, attempt to inflict serious bodily damage, serious damage of property and violence against police.

Six police officers were injured during the operation.

A police operation was underway on Saturday to remove anarchists from two recently evacuated squats in the district of Koukaki in central Athens.

The buildings on 45 Matrozou and 21 Panetolikou Streets had been cleared by riot police in a sweeping operation on December 18 last year, but anarchists returned on Saturday afternoon, according to media reports.

The events that transpired during a riot police raid in the district of Koukaki on Wednesday morning to clear a squat were further blurred on Thursday after people claiming to be the occupants of the building targeted said the family members who were eventually arrested had nothing to do with their squat.

A lawmaker with Greece's main opposition party on Thursday slammed the excessive police violence during a raid in the Athenian district of Koukaki on Wednesday morning and claimed that a woman was shot in close range by a plastic bullet.

Greece's Culture Ministry has revoked the building permit for a controversial nine-story structure that is under construction near the Acropolis in the district of Koukaki, amid protests that the building mars the view of the Parthenon.