Bombs

An improvised explosive device (IED) went off at 112 Ippokratous St, in Exarchia, in downtown Athens, Wednesday, at 11.45pm causing material damage. The blast occurred in the main entrance of a building block where “Elefhteri Skeci” bookstore is located which had come under attack in 2008 with petrol bombs.

The trial into the deadly May 2010 firebombing of a central Athens branch of Marfin Bank, which resulted in the death of three employees, started on Monday with harrowing testimony from the victims' colleagues.

Protesters in Greece have hurled firebombs and other projectiles at police in front of Parliament before a controversial vote on an austerity bill.

A group of around 40 people threw close to a dozen Molotov cocktails at the Exarchia police precinct in central Athens on Sunday afternoon.

The raid caused damage but no injuries. Some of the perpetrators were also armed with sledgehammers, which they used to attack the guard post outside the police station and three parked cars.

A vehicle laden with 500kg of explosives, Kalashnikov rifles and ammunition, was apprehended by gendarmerie officials in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r late on Feb. 18, the Governor's Office has stated, just two days after a car bomb targeting military personnel shuttles killed 28 in the capital Ankara. 

An unexploded bomb caused a mass evacuation at Victoria station on Friday morning.

As local media report, armed police rushed at the scene and ordered thousands of passengers to evacuate the station.

The station was reopened just before 10.15am.

Following the episodes broke out at Syntagma square, the clashes between the police and members of anti-establishment groups continue at Exarchia neighborhood  at the center of Athens.

The anti- establishment groups throw Molotov cocktails, while a car was set on fire at Somolou street.

Violent episodes broke out at Syntagma square , when unknown individuals started throwing Molotov cocktails and police responding with tear gas.

Earlier clashes also recorded between protesters and the police at Klafthmonos Square, while one person was arrested.

Unknown individuals on Friday midnight threw about ten Molotov cocktails at the house of Greek State Minister Alekos Flambouraris.

Two cars parked outside the house of the minister were burned, while a window and the front door were also damaged.

Fire Service rushed to the point and put out the fire.

The Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was attacked in the early hours of Friday orning by 25 hooded assailants that hurled around 15 Molotov cocktails at the guard post.

The attack occurred at 3.20 a.m. outside the consulate’s premises on Agiou Dimitriou Street. No injuries had been reported. Damage was only superficial and to the building’s façade.