Non-lethal weapons

A hand grenade found in Menidi, northern Athens, on Saturday was removed from the area by officers of the Hellenic Army's specialist bomb disposal unit while police launched an investigation into its provenance.
The grenade was found on the corner of Liosion and Aristotelous streets, near a primary school, police said.
It was to be examined by forensic experts.

Riot police raided an anarchist haunt in the central Athens district of Exarchia late Thursday and early on Friday as tensions continue to mount in the area. 

Experts from the Greek Police's bomb disposal unit removed a hand grenade that was found in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia on Wednesday.
The grenade, which is believed to date to World War II, was found in a building on Asclepiou Street that has been under renovation.

Police have closed off and are guarding the area around ER in Veliko Tarnovo, where a visitor in the hospital found a discarded hand grenade and sent a signal to the emergency telephone, BNR reported.

A National Military University team is about to defuse the grenade.

Further information will be provided.

A Turkish company launched its advanced non-lethal electroshock weapon in the South African market on May 29 in the hope of equipping people with an alternative form of protection.       

Hundreds of protesting migrants have clashed with police for a third straight day outside an overcrowded camp, with migrants throwing rocks at officers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.

An investigation is continuing into the death of a 43-year-old Turkish citizen after the use of a stun gun on him by German police, officials said on Oct. 25.

Unidentified youths used homemade firebombs to target police stationed outside the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki early on Sunday.

The masked assailants lobbed Molotov cocktails at the police unit, prompting officers to respond with stun grenades and tear gas.

They also set fire to three garbage dumpsters before fleeing.

Officers of the police bomb disposal unit in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, removed five old hand grenades found in an apartment after its former occupant, an elderly man, died.

The grenades were discovered by the man's brother during a visit to the apartment and he notified authorities.

The demand of a jailed terror suspect, who is on a hunger strike, to be returned to Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison after he was forcefully removed by EKAM special forces on Saturday and sent to a penitentiary in the central Greek town of Larissa, sparked a series of violent demonstrations, culminating in a hand grenade assault Monday morning on a police precinct in Athens.