Exarchia

December 6th marks the anniversary of the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas in 2008, an act that stands as a landmark case of police brutality in Greece. In more peaceful times, Greek society would mourn...

There are several famous neighborhoods and squares in Athens with strange names, whose origins even Athenians are unaware of. Plateia Amerikis, or America Square, is an iconic square in Athens. The busy square was named in 1927, as the municipal...

An award-winning American photojournalist reported an attack by a member of the Greek riot police (MAT) on Monday night in Exarchia, Athens. The photojournalist was on the scene covering events unfolding at the time on Strefi Hill, where residents...

Unknown vandals burned for the second time in less than two days the Christmas tree of the central square of the notorious Exarchia district in Athens on Friday night. The new incident took place just a few hours after the...

Unknown assailants burned a Christmas tree in the central square of the notorious Exarchia district on Wednesday night, just a few hours after it had been placed there and decorated by the city of Athens' municipal workers. Eye witnesses said...

Three Greek riot police officers were injured on Thursday night when their squad came under attack by a group of some 25 self-styled anarchists lobbing homemade firebombs in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia. Of the three officers who were...

More than thirty migrants were evacuated by police forces on Wednesday morning as part of a new police operation to clear out illegal habitations in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia. The operation, which was executed by members of the...

Police on Monday raided an illegally-occupied building in the Exarchia district in downtown Athens, removing more than 100 illegal migrants and refugees as part of a clean-up drive by the government. The building in Oktaviou Merlie and Prassa Street was...

Early on Friday, police removed a container in Exarchia Square, in downtown Athens, which had been used by anarchists and other groups as a kiosk for the distribution of information about their group. The container, which was set up almost...

A group of about 30 anarchists launched an attack with Molotov cocktails against the  Zografou police station in Athens at around 2:40 am on Saturday. According to the Hellenic Police, the perpetrators came out of the nearby university campus and...