Assault rifles

Six people detained in Athens and Thessaloniki on Wednesday in connection to bank robberies and possible terrorist activity faced a prosecutor on Thursday.

The suspects, four Greek men, aged 23, 26 and 30, a Greek woman aged 25 and a 30-year-old Albanian national were detained following police searches of their homes.

Three members of a violent robbery ring that has wielded Kalashnikov assault rifles in several raids on homes and stores in parts of Attica as well as Thiva and Larissa, have been detained by authorities while police seek to trace their accomplices.

“The battalion that operates in foreign operations will be the first to be equipped from this year with the M4 carbine, and will no longer use outdated Kalashnikovs,” Kodheli said in a speech marking the first 300 days in power of the Socialist-led government.

A Frenchman with suspected ties to Islamic radicals in Syria has been arrested over last week’s fatal shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, investigation sources told AFP June 1.