A woman’s handbag triggered police response Monday outside a bank branch in Nea Ionia.
TERRORISM
In the wake of the gruesome attack last Friday in Moscow and the mounting concerns among Western security and intelligence agencies, the Hellenic Police and the National Intelligence Service have reportedly jointly decided to intensify checks at the country’s entry points, migrant detention centers and beyond.
Five years ago this month, a US-backed Kurdish and Arab militia ousted Islamic State group fighters from a village in eastern Syria, the group’s last sliver of territory.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has condemned the deadly terrorist attack that took place in Moscow on Friday that killed at least 143 people.
The Foreign Ministry has expressed its sympathy to the families of the victims of the attack on the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, in which scores of people were killed in a terrorist attack claimed by Islamic State.
The Athens-Piraeus Electric Railway (ISAP) station in the southern Kallithea district was temporarily closed on Thursday due to a bomb threat. The station has resumed operations.
A false alarm was raised on Wednesday by the police due to the discovery of a suitcase deemed suspicious outside the Digital Governance Ministry in Kallithea in south Athens.
Two seafarers were killed in a Houthi missile attack on a Red Sea Greek-owned freighter on Wednesday, British and US officials said, the first fatalities reported since the Iran-aligned Yemeni group began strikes against shipping in one of the world’s busiest sea lanes.
The Greek-owned cargo ship True Confidence was hit by a missile about 50 nautical miles southwest of the Yemeni port of Aden on Wednesday in an attack presumed to come from Houthi forces, the ship’s owner and operator said.
An explosion erupted in the Black Sea port of Odesa on Wednesday, just before a scheduled meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Despite this, the meeting proceeded without disruption.
Authorities have remanded six persons accused of terrorist acts Sunday after their statements to an examining magistrate in Thessaloniki in northern Greece.
Citizen Protection Ministry officials are not ruling out the possibility that two military pyrotechnicians who were arrested last week for their involvement in the case of a parcel-bomb that was sent to the president of the Thessaloniki Appeals Court on February 12 may be linked to other terrorist plots, such as the attempted attack on the police riot unit headquarters in Athens last December.
A Greek prosecutor charged 10 people on Wednesday over a series of recent bomb and hand grenade attacks, including a planned parcel bomb explosion at a court in the northern city of Thessaloniki this month, judicial sources said.
An ongoing crackdown on homegrown terror groups has led officers to the discovery of explosives in the home of an Air Force serviceman, the police said on Wednesday.
The police’s Anti-Terrorism Division launched raids in different parts of Athens on Tuesday that were most likely linked to a parcel bomb that was sent to the prosecutor of the Appeal Court of Thessaloniki earlier in the month.
The police’s Anti-Terrorism Division launched a crackdown on Tuesday against urban guerrilla groups operating in different parts of the Greek capital, including, reportedly, from two prisons.
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