Gerakas

Members of anarchist group Rouvikonas marched into the headquarters of a supermarket chain in Gerakas, eastern Attica, on Thursday afternoon to protest over the death of an employee during cleaning work on the roof of a room used to preserve products.

The state is set to become the legal owner of properties in 111 areas around the country (including 20 in Athens and Thessaloniki) whose real owners have not declared their assets to the land registry offices (Ktimatologio) that are about to complete 14 years of operation, according to the head of the property owners federation (POMIDA).

The 35th Athens Authentic Marathon will take place on Sunday, November 12. The event, which includes a total of 7 races, will result in the implementation of traffic diversions and road closures.

The so-called "safe deposit gang" apparently struck again early on Wednesday morning in the suburb of Gerakas in eastern Attica, police said.

According to reports, six men entered a building housing a marketing company at the intersection of Komotinis and Imathias streets at around 3.30 a.m. and used sledgehammers to break through a wall into an office in an adjacent building.

Police on Thursday were exploring possible links between a robbery at a cosmetics firm northeast of Athens and a string of similar break-ins in the past few months targeting safes in large businesses.

A gang that robbed elderly people and teenagers in the northern suburbs of Athens has been broken up, police said on Thursday, adding that five suspects - three minors, aged 12, 14 and 15, and two adults, 20 and 23 - had been arrested.

According to the investigation, the gang targeted people who would put up the least resistance, such as seniors and minors.

Greek authorities have issued international warrants for the arrest of two suspects believed to be behind the killing of a 47-year-old priest, east of Athens, last month.

The victim was found dead in a pool of blood at his home in Gerakas on February 13.

Both suspects are Pakistani nationals, aged 28 and 33, authorities said.

A priest aged 47 was found dead in his home in Gerakas, east of Athens, shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

The priest's body was lying in a pool of blood and he was bound hand and foot. A blood-soaked pillow was also found beside his body, investigators said.

Following heavy snowfall and icy conditions across the region of Attica, several municipalities announced that schools in their areas would remain closed on Thursday.

Schools in the areas of Thrakomakedones, Varibobi, Kifissia, Vrilissia and Penteli, northern Attica, were closed on Thursday.