Sledgehammer

The Greek police said its officers seized a pocket knife, a hammer, a firebomb, two wooden bats and the handle of a sledgehammer from the site of a brawl between rival youth gangs in northern Athens.

Members of the Rouvikonas anarchist group smashed the entrance to the headquarters of the Motor Oil company in northern Athens on Tuesday.

The incident occurred shortly after 12 noon in the suburb of Maroussi. Police arrived at the scene after the vandals had made off, leaving behind several sledgehammers they had used to damage the building's facade.

Turkey's domestic agenda has recently been occupied with a debate on investigating the political establishment of FETÖ, the group behind the defeated coup attempt of 2016 that has also been accused of infiltrating state institutions.

Turkish police on Jan. 14 detained at least 151 people for suspected links to the FETÖ, the group behind the 2016 defeated coup attempt, security sources said.

The detentions came after the country's prosecutors issued detention warrants for 237suspects.

Members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas early Sunday vandalized the offices of the mining company Larco in Maroussi, north of Athens, to protest the death of an employee during work hours over the summer. 

Intruders scaled the perimeter fence of the grounds at around 5 a.m. and used sledgehammers to smash the entrance which they also defaced with paint. 

A Turkish court on July 11 gave aggravated life sentences to two convicts in the high-profile murder of a prosecutor in Istanbul in 2015, according to a judicial source.

A Turkish court on June 26 convicted 47 defendants with aggravated life terms for the incidents that took place in a military academy during the July 15 defeated coup in Turkey, according to a judicial source.         

A Turkish court on June 20 handed down aggravated life sentences to scores of convicts for their involvement in the defeated 2016 coup in Turkey, according to judicial sources.         

An Ankara court has ordered the arrest of two suspects who were detained last week after attacking a staff member at the entrance hall of the Turkish Parliament on May 14.

Counter-terrorism officers in central England are investigating attacks on five mosques in which windows were apparently shattered by a sledgehammer.