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A building belonging to the Technical University of Crete in Hania, which had been used as a squat, was raided in the early hours of Monday by police.

According to sources cited by the Athens- Macedonian News Agency (AMNA), authorities made nine detentions without arrests.

One man was sentenced to prison with suspension on Monday by the Three-Member Criminal Court in Thessaloniki for illegal activities related to the squat "Terra Incognita" that was evacuated by police in 2020. The same court acquitted ten people involved in the case. 

A police operation was carried out in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Wednesday morning to prevent an attempt by members of an anti-establishment group to retake a building in the city center. Police said 29 people were arrested.

Greek police evacuated about 50 migrants from a squat in the central Athenian district of Exarchia during a raid early Monday morning, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

According to information cited by the agency, the migrants are mainly from Syria and Congo and included more than 10 children.

The building on 58 Themistokleous Street had functioned as a squat since 216.

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The nine people arrested on Wednesday during raids on three squats in the Koukaki neighborhood of Athens faced a prosecutor on Thursday on charges of attempted grievous bodily harm. They are to face a misdemeanors court on Friday. 

The events that transpired during a riot police raid in the district of Koukaki on Wednesday morning to clear a squat were further blurred on Thursday after people claiming to be the occupants of the building targeted said the family members who were eventually arrested had nothing to do with their squat.

Police officers are seen entering an occupied building in the Athens neighborhood of Koukaki, one of three squats cleared early on Sunday. Nine people - seven Greeks and two foreign nationals - were arrested. Among those detained were two men and their father who were in a building that the police entered to gain access to one of the squats and who allegedly attempted to stop the officers.

A father and his two sons who were arrested during a police raid on anarchist squats in the downtown Athens district of Koukaki on Wednesday were taken to hospital from police custody.

Hellenic Police (ELAS) spokesman Theodros Chronopoulos on Wednesday defended the controversial arrest of two men and their father during a raid on an anarchist squat in the downtown Athens district of Koukaki earlier in the day, as the incident has come under scrutiny amid claims that officers forced their way into the family's home without a warrant.