Urban guerrilla warfare

An incident of violence occurred on Thursday at the 2nd High School of Moschato in southwestern Athens when a group of about ten people carried out an attack with Molotov cocktails.

Around 2 p.m. on Thursday, three Molotov cocktails were thrown, while only one exploded. 

No injuries were recorded, while the police arrested eight minors for violating the arms law.

The 21 people, including two minors, arrested for rioting during Thursday's gathering in the center of Athens to protest Wednesday's shipwreck tragedy were referred to an investigating judge on Friday. 

The Hellenic Police estimates that more than 40,000 people marched in central Athens on Wednesday to protest the rail collision at Tempe last week that left 57 people dead. Sources from the Citizen Protection Ministry also pointed out that the march was a mostly peaceful affair.

“When you have a country plagued by urban guerrilla warfare, a regular & very high terrorist threat, we can’t say that the country is doing well”

Twenty-four people were arrested and charged on Thursday in connection with the the violence that erupted in central Athens during a demonstration against an education bill, police said.

Officers had originally detained 52 people. The charges are not yet known.

Police said on Thursday they detained 35 people over a Molotov cocktail attack on a Dias motorcycle unit in Menidi, northeast Attica late on Wednesday night.

According to reports the incident occurred after a group of people gathered outside a local primary school in Liosia.

As soon as they saw the police, they launched a hail of stones and Molotov cocktails on the unit.

Police said that 20 Molotov cocktails were found and seized in the courtyard of an abandoned building in the central Athens district of Exarchia on Tuesday. 

A backpack and a metal cutter were also found.

An investigation has been launched.

Unidentified assailants attacked the Nea Ionia police precinct in northern Athens with Molotov cocktails early Monday morning.
According to the Hellenic Police (ELAS), the incident occurred at 4 a.m. when a group of about 10 people approached the police station at the junction of Irakleiou Avenue and Kosta Varnali Street and threw four Molotov cocktails.

However justified some people's claims may be, no democracy can function properly without some limits. These limits were abolished in Greece some time ago and this is extremely dangerous, especially for democracy itself.

Police said on Saturday that they identified three suspects who are thought to have been part of a group of hooligans who attacked a police vehicle outside the Athens Olympic Stadium on January 26 during a cross-town derby between host AEK Athens and Olympiakos.

The three suspects are two Greeks and a teenage foreign national.