Riot Police

Once again violence erupted in the capital last night when hooded youth threw petrol bombs at riot police stationed in the Exarchia district of Athens. The incident took place around 10:30 pm at the intersection of Patision and Tositsa Streets and...

A protest march against crime by local residents in the area of Menidi, eastern Attica, turned violent on Monday night after a group of youths threw petrol bombs and stones against riot police at the train station, who responded...

More attacks by self-styled anarchists on riot police in the Athens district of Exarchia took place late Saturday and early Sunday morning, authorities have reported. The attacks involved the anarchists hurling firebombs at the riot police who were stationed at...

On Wednesday evening for the fifth night in a row riot police at various stations in the center of Athens in the district of Exarchia came under attack. Groups of young men attacked the riot police stationed on Harilaou Trikoupi...

Members of the riot police unit have filed a lawsuit against the officers in command of an operation. Riot police were sent to quell a riot on Alexandras Avenue next to police headquarters in Athens on October 31. A court trial...

Violent, destructive riots that erupted late on Wednesday night at the Souda migrant camp on Chios island resulted in several arrests of migrants. According to local residents who spoke on ERT Aegean television station, the incident started around 11:00 pm...

Early Saturday morning clashes between rioters and the police took place near the Athens Polytechnic in Exarchia. Sources report that following a group of unidentified people throwing petrol bombs at riot police at a unit stationed on the corner of...

On Friday, Greek riot police put an end to a group of nationalists occupying a site at Votanikos where the country's first mosque is set to be built. The group of 15 nationalists referring to themselves as the "Association of...

According to the AP, a group of protesters said to be anarchists burst into and disrupted mass at the Greek Orthodox Church of Gregory Palamas this Sunday. The city's archbishop who was at another church at the time of the...

feaΑ second round of clashes between police and protesting farmers took place at Haidari, on the outskirts of Athens, as farmers were trying to enter the capital on their pickup trucks. After Cretan farmers attacked the headquarters of the Ministry...