Exarchia

Dozens of people were remanded for questioning on Thursday morning as part of a large-scale police operation to clear illegal habitations in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia. The operation, which was executed by the Attica Security Division with assistance...

More than eighty people, mostly undocumented migrants, were arrested in a large police operation targeting occupied buildings in the notorious Athenian district of Exarchia on Thursday. Police say they acted on intelligence about extensive drug trafficking. The squatters, who were living...

Hellenic Police and the Hellenic Coast Guard are in disagreement over operational procedures after two men of the latter were injured following a drug raid in Exarchia on Thursday night. Eight men of the coast guard accompanied by a prosecutor...

Residents of the infamous Athens district of Exarcheia published an angry open letter on Wednesday which describes the climate of lawlessness which prevails in their neighborhood. The letter says that Exarcheia has become a "dark zone of Athens", as radical leftist...

Greek Police are bracing for expected riots on Thursday, the tenth anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer. The young man was killed during a demonstration in Exarchia, in central Athens. Five thousand police officers,...

Friday night in central Athens saw more clashes between anarchists and police as Molotov cocktails and rocks were thrown in Exarchia. This time clashes lasted a solid two hours with Tositsa Street -- next to the National Technical University of Athens...

Hundreds of residents of the central Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia have called on the Greek prosecution service to intervene and put an end to the crime, vandalism and lawlessness threatening to turn the area into a ghetto. A three-page appeal...

Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised via Twitter that he will put an end to vandalism in Greek universities, if New Democracy wins the next election. What triggered the Mitsotakis tweet was a photo report of the National Technical University...

Greek Police arrested 11 people and brought in 26 for questioning after the destructive riots that took place in Athens, for the 9th anniversary of the police slaying of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Eight of the people arrested are Greek; three of...

Greek police brace once again for the violence that is programmed to erupt this Wednesday, on the 9th anniversary of the slaying of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a policeman on December 6, 2008. It has become a sad tradition that every...