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For the second time this week, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has called for the resignation of Nikos Toskas, the Citizens' Protection Minister, in light of the vandalism and acts of violence that have taken place throughout the city in recent...

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 Sunday, Riots broke out late in the evening in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki outside of Oreokastro Migrant Camp which accommodates some 1,300 refugees. According to Greek authorities, refugees who are residents at the center flooded the streets...

Exarchia, a central suburb of Athens known as being a cesspool of anarchy, was once again gripped by violence shortly after midnight on Saturday that continued until the early hours of Sunday. A group of youth headed from Exarchia...

Violence erupted again on Wednesday at Idomeni, the sprawling tent city that has been created on Greece's northern border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Incidents began at 8:30 p.m. when about a hundred migrants ran towards...

The seventh anniversary of the murder of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a policeman was marked with fires and clashes with the police in Athens. The skirmishes started after the end of the protest rally organized by anarchist factions in memory...

As the seventh anniversary of the killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a policeman approaches, thousands of police brace for a night of riots and vandalism. The sixth of December of 2008 event triggered the most violent uproar Athens has...

Greek Police arrested seven rioters who had attacked policemen with petrol bombs in the area of Exarchia around midnight on Friday. It all started after a demonstration rally of leftist organizations protesting the arrival of U.S. State Secretary John Kerry in...

The Hellenic Police are on high alert in view of Decemeber 6, the anniversary of the death of 16-year-old student Alexis Grigoropoulos. In 2008 Grigoropoulos was killed by a police officer. His death sparked protests and riots in Athens...

Shortly before 13:00 pm around 30 masked men attacked police officers with stones damaging shop windows in the center of Athens during demonstrations by the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GCWG)  and the Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council (CSSAC)....