Fyli

Crews of the local government body responsible for waste management (EDSNA) were rushing to repair structural damage to the capital's main landfill at Fyli in northwestern Attica amid forecasts of rainfall over the weekend.

Authorities on Tuesday suspended garbage collections in the broader Attica region due to structural problems at the capital's main landfill at Fyli in northwestern Attica.

Residents near a Roma camp fired shots to intimidate police officers carrying out an inspection in the early hours of Thursday.

The officers of the OPKE crime prevention unit responded with gunfire to the threat from the rooftops of apartment buildings in the area around the camp in Ano Liosia, north of Athens.

Getting around Athens will be that much harder next week as trolley bus and Proastiakos suburban railway drivers have both announced stoppages.

On Wednesday, the capital will not have any trolley bus services from noon to 5 p.m. as workers attend a general assembly that had been postponed.

Nine officers were slightly injured on Thursday in clashes outside a police precinct in Ano Liosia, northern Athens, with dozens of members of the Roma community, who were protesting the death of a 62-year-man in custody. 

Police in Athens revealed Thursday that 26 members of four families from Zefyri, western Attica, have been arrested on suspicion of peddling drugs. Authorities said that eight of those arrested are aged between 13 and 16.

A 30-year-old man who had been on the run since a court convicted him of murder and illegal gun possession in 2011 was arrested in the central Greek town of Larissa Wednesday.

Police on Thursday were seeking to identify a woman whose corpse was found in Athens's main landfill at Fyli, northwestern Attica.

The discovery of the body was reported by EDSNA, the local government association responsible for waste management.

No details were available about the suspected cause of death.

Police in Athens in the early hours of Tuesday exchanged fire with a group of men believed to be behind a string of safe robberies at industrial facilities around Attica and Viotia.

The incident occurred around 4.30 a.m. as officers of the OPKE squad tried to question the passengers of a car in Ano Liosia, northern Athens, following an attempted break-in at a pharmaceutical company.

Authorities raised the alarm after radioactive waste was detected on a truck near Athens, the Environment Ministry said on Monday.

The ministry said it was informed on Sunday that a container transporting waste from the VIOPA industrial park in Keratea, eastern Attica, to the landfill at Fyli, west of Athens, was emitting radioactive iodine, picked up by sensors at the landfill.