Vandalism

With the exception of the statue of the former American president Harry Truman in downtown Athens that has been toppled, splashed with paint and firebombed, Greece has not witnessed, at least in recent years, any attempts to "erase" history by means of vandalism.

Ten of the 43 self-styled anarchists arrested by police in connection with the vandalism on Wednesday night of the capital's Acropolis metro station are foreign nationals and include an American, a Briton and a Frenchman, it emerged on Thursday.

Authorities at the University of Piraeus are investigating the vandalism of a kiosk belonging to the DAP student union, which is affiliated with ruling New Democracy, on Friday afternoon.
According to witnesses, the vandalism was carried out by hooded assailants.

The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki expressed outrage on Thursday over the scrawling of anti-Semitic slogans on the wall around the historic synagogue of Trikala in central Greece by unidentified vandals in the early morning hours on December 31, following recent renovations to the building.

Education Minister Niki Kerameus on Friday condemned a vandalism attack on her private office in downtown Athens, in which around half a dozen members of the Rouvikonas anarchist group splashed paint on the entrance door and spray-painted slogans on the wall.

A group of self-styled anarchists have vandalized a chapel in the suburb of Sepolia, west of Athens city center.

The vandalism is believed to have taken place late Monday. The assailants broke into the chapel and spray-painted five of the religious icons displayed in the shrine.

New measures against scratching the facades of buildings in Sofia. The metropolitan municipality and the police draw up a register of authors' handwriting. The purpose is to catch a person who scratches on forbidden places to compare his handwriting with other graffiti in the database.

Kilroy was here, and lots of his friends too. In Athens, illicit spray-painting forays leave an often-indelible mark on the Greek capital's public and private buildings, street signs and bus stops, while public artworks and even ancient ruins are not spared.

The Greek Police is planing a coordinated crackdown on organized crime rackets as the government drafts legislation aimed at punishing members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas, who have been carrying out acts of vandalism with relative impunity for years. 

An Athens prosecutor on Tuesday brought criminal charges against a leading member of the Rouvikonas anti-establishment group.