Argyroupoli

A man from Guinea and a woman from Moldova were arrested in Argyroupoli in southern Athens on Monday, accused of drug possession and trafficking.
According to the Hellenic Police (ELAS), the detainees were active in the greater Athens area.
A search of their car as well as their apartment in the district of Vyronas yielded 220 packages of cocaine weighing 729.3 grams.

Musicians Lamia Bedioui and Solis Barki will appear on the stage of Polimichano Cafe Teatral in the southern Athens suburb of Argyroupoli for a concert presenting their album "Fin'amor"; the title is derived from an Occitan Medieval expression meaning "Courtly love".

The Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) has introduced a number of changes to the capital's bus services in a bid to reduce operational costs.

Effective as of Monday, OASA will be shutting down a number of services that were found to have low passenger numbers.

The Infrastructure Ministry has ruled out the funding of any extension of the Attica ring road (Attiki Odos) through the extension of the current concession contract, as the operating consortium wants.

The ministry argues that any project related to the privately run highway will be included in the tender concerning the period after the expiry of the existing contract.

Police in Attica said on Wednesday that they have unraveled a gang of Georgian nationals that committed a series of home break-ins in southeastern Athens.
More specifically, officers of the DIAS motorcycle unit arrested three men, aged 37, 26 and 23, in the suburb of Glyfada on Sunday and police are looking for another three suspects.

The sputtering privatization of a prime piece of real estate that used to be home to Athens's international airport on the southern coast of the Greek capital is a "symbol of SYRIZA's failure in development," New Democracy opposition chief Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a visit to the site on Tuesday.

Police in Attica are investigating claims that a 15-year-old boy found hanged on the balcony of his family home in Argyroupoli, southern Athens, on Sunday morning, had been a victim of bullying at school.

According to police sources, the boy left a note explaining that he could not face continuing with his life due to the bullying.

Greek police arrested on Saturday morning one of the three Albanian nationals who had escaped last Tuesday from a police station where they were being held in Argyroupoli, southern Atherns, by jumping out of a window.

He was found at the house of a friend in Koropi, eastern Attica. The 28-year-old was reportedly hidden in a closet and didn't resist arrest.

Three Albanian nationals, arrested on June 13 over dozens of thefts and burglaries, escaped the police station where they were being held in Argyroupoli, southern Athens, by jumping out of the bathroom window.

Transport authorities are moving forward with long-delayed activation of electronic barriers which started operating at Syntagma metro station in central Athens on Sunday with several more stations on the metro network to follow suit by March 15.

Barriers for disabled commuters will remain open until March 15.