Police

Police are hunting two armed robbers in the capital Ankara who escaped with 400,000 Turkish Liras ($113,000) in cash as it was being transferred to an ATM early on Aug. 9.

The incident occurred in Ankara's Yenimahalle district, where two armed suspects apprehended security guards who were on duty transferring cash from a bank to an ATM.

The Greek government’s tolerant and passive stance towards disruptive actions, which in some cases lead to violent attacks by anti-establishment and anarchist groups, has led police officers in the field to feel baffled and disappointed. As the most recent incidents illustrated, anarchist groups operate in an environment of complete impunity.

Police in Achaia, in the Peloponnese, Wednesday, were investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 39-year-old Romanian man whose body was found near a quarry in the area of Araxos.

Some 102 people, including 60 traffic police officers and two constables, were detained in Istanbul in an operation early on July 24 for turning a blind eye to earth-moving trucks carrying weight beyond their capacity and for letting concrete mixers on the roads during banned hours in return for briberies amounting to 5,000 Turkish Liras (around $1,400) a month. 

A video of a group of extreme anti-establishment activists running amok on Ermou Street, one of Athens’s main shopping areas, was released on anarchist sites.

A German town’s summer fair turned violent over the weekend, with multiple sexual assaults reported. A group of youths also attacked visitors and officers, with police stating that many of the offenders were migrants.

A crackdown by police in the area of Menidi, north of Athens, at the site of a former military barracks called Kapota, led to the arrest of 16 people on charges ranging from drugs and arms possession to fraud.

A week after an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet in Menidi, northwestern Athens, officials agreed Wednesday on the implementation of long-delayed measures to increase policing and curb widespread crime in the area.

Several hundred residents of Menidi, northern Athens, where an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet last week, gathered outside the headquarters of the Citizens' Protection Ministry on Tuesday to demand better policing in the area, where crime rates are high.

A parliamentary commission has filed a complaint in order to investigate a woman's allegations of mistreatment under detention in Istanbul.