Gunmen attack police station - Athens, Greece

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Last night witnessed another armed attack on a Greek police when the Korydallou police station, Athens was fired upon and hand grenades thrown by masked gunmen at approximately 4am. Six shells from a submachine gun were collected from the crime scene according to police reports. At 5am an anonymous phone call to the Lambraki publishing group said that Revolutionary Struggle (Epanastatikos Agonas) had claimed responsibility for the attack.

Twin gun attacks on police officers in January which left one officer fighting for his life mark a sharp escalation in the country’s traditionally turbulent political scene. Although the weeks of mass violent confrontation that followed the shooting by police officers of Greek teenager, Alexis Grigoropoulos have disappeared from the world’s TV screens, the disturbances have not died down completely. There have been violent clashes between riots police and demonstrators on an almost daily basis sparked by issues as diverse as the destruction of Athen’s parks and the acid attack on labour activist, Konstandina Kouneva. 

Less well known is the series of arson and bomb attacks on Greek banks nationwide as well as an extensive campaign of vandalism by anti - authoritarian groups which have left hundreds of ATMs out of action.