Vassilis Palaiocostas

A body found in a car in Haidari, western Attica, on Wednesday afternoon, is that of criminal Vassilis Stefanakos, according to a police statement which said the corpse bore gunshot wounds, apparently inflicted by an assault rifle. 

He appears to have been sprayed with fire from a Kalashnikov, police sources indicated, noting that there were signs of more than 20 bullet wounds.  

Police detained a total of 22 people following a raid on the administrative headquarters of Athens University on Friday morning which ended a 19-day sit-in of the institution.

Police investigating the violent murder of the warden of maximum-security Domokos Prison in central Greece on Saturday are focusing on the jail itself, Kathimerini understands, as it appears likely that the hit was ordered by a member of the criminal underworld serving time in the institution.

The fingerprints and DNA of three suspects being sought in connection with an audacious bank robbery in Distomo, in the prefecture of Viotia, in August have been found in an apartment in Nea Makri, northeast of Athens, which is believed to have been used as a hideout by the robbers, and on a speedboat the perpetrators used as part of their getaway, police said on Tuesday.

The police on Thursday issued the names and photographs of three suspects it believes were involved in an armed bank robbery northwest of Athens last week that netted almost 400,000 euros in cash.

Police said they are looking for Spyros Dravilas, 33, Giorgos Petrakakos, 35, and Spyros Chrystodoulou, 44, over the raid at National Bank in the village of Paralia Distomou on Friday.