Nikos Toskas

The heads of the Athens and Piraeus bar associations have called on Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas to tighten security at courthouses and increase protection for advocates.

Alternate Minister for Public Order Nikos Toskas has personally pledged to the Israeli ambassador in Greece to have the Rouvikonas members who attacked it on Monday arrested.

Extreme left group Rouvikonas made the Embassy of Israel its latest target, hurling paint against the building in northern Athens.

Several key ministers attended a conference in Elefsina, western Attica, on Saturday, aimed at improving anti-flood works in the region following catastrophic floods last month that killed more than 20 people and wreaked massive damage to state infrastructure and private property.

Regional authorities have already approved a 500-million-euro program for anti-flood works.

Police officers will be replacing private security guards at the Greek capital's metro and ISAP electric railway stations, according to an agreement reached between the Citizens' Protection and Transport ministries. 

Eight employees of the Hellenic Railways Organization, many of them high-ranking, are being charged with membership of a criminal racket that defrauded millions of euros from the state body.

Just two days before the annual protest march marking the anniversary of the November 17, 1973 student uprising that precipitated the fall of the Greek junta, some 70 self-styled anarchists, including several from Albania and Central European countries, occupied the building housing the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), which used to be the Athens Polytechnic, in the city center o

The assault and injury of seven people, including three army cadets, on Sunday afternoon near Monastiraki Station in central Athens, was widely condemned by political parties on Monday as an act of fascism.

Citizens' Protection Minister Nikos Toskas on Wednesday congratulated the Hellenic Police for "one of its biggest coups ever" following the rescue on Monday of a Cretan businessman who had been abducted while driving home outside the town of Iraklio on March 30.

Comments by Citizen's Protection Minister Nikos Toskas in Parliament Thursday, including calling the Hellenic Fire Service the "most warped service in the Greek public sector," prompted angry reactions from opposition parties.

There is no indication that Greece could become the target of a terrorist attack like those which struck other European nations in recent years, Public Order Minister Nikos Toskas has said, adding however that nobody can rule out the possibility "lone wolf" scenario.