Hellenic Police

A 39-year-old Anglo-Sudanese man arrested in Athens last week as part of a joint operation by Greek police and Europol was a member of an international forgery ring that was unraveled in May, authorities said on Wednesday.

Mohamed A., also known as Ageep, was nabbed after a stakeout by police outside a passport forgery workshop in Kypseli.

Greek police arrested five people during clashes with members of anti-establishment and extreme-left groups in the area surrounding the Athens Polytechnic, Tuesday evening.

Greek police say about 3,000 anarchists, left-wing group supporters and students are marching through central Athens, to protest President Barack Obama's visit.

A second planned Athens protest by Greek Communist Party (KKE) supporters is due to start later Tuesday.

Greek police have smashed a high class prostitution ring operating in Greece and abroad after an ongoing investigation. Authorities arrested 17 members of the network on April 23, six of whom were Greek nationals and the other 11 foreigners. One of the 17 arrested was a 50-year old Greek who is reportedly the illicit organisation.

A Syrian refugee, who was hit by a police car at Idomeni camp on the Greece-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) border sparking riots, died of his injuries, hospital officials confirmed Saturday.

The 40-year-old Kurd, who had been living with his family for more than two months at the squalid camp, died of head injuries on Thursday, the officials said.

Migrants in Idomeni, Greece, on the border with Macedonia, have once again blocked the railroad tracks, Skopje-based media have reported.

According to the reports quoted on Tuesday by the Beta agency, the migrants blocked the tracks again yesterday, shortly after the Greek police moved in to clear it up after 30 days of blockade.

A new rise in tensions between Greece and FYROM after the violent incidents occurred in Idomeni, with the neighboring country claiming that its police officers did what Greek police should have done.

The decision of Hellenic Police to transfer the chief of Cyber Crime Center, Manolis Sfakianakis, to another department which was announced on Wednesday, was recalled on Thursday.

Two men with Swedish passports and carrying machetes and other "combat paraphernalia" have been arrested in Greece, suspected of links to jihadist groups, Greek police sources said on Jan. 31.    

The police  is increasing the number of officers on duty today due to the anniversary of the police killing a teenager, Alexis Grigoropoulos, seven years ago.

Grigoropoulos was shot down by a police officer seven years ago at Exarchia, center of Athens.