Eight alleged members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas, who had been detained in connection with the attack on a building of Attiki Odos, the Greek Police announced on Tuesday. The building on Mesogion Avenue was attacked with sledgehammers in the early morning hours. building using sledgehammers, have been placed under …
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Rouvikonas anarchists raid Energy & Environment Ministry over forest fires
Members of the anarchists’ group Rouvikonas raided the Entrance of the Energy and Environment Ministry in the district of Ampelokipoi in downtown Athens on Tuesday afternoon. They hang a banner reading “state arsonist” and threw flyers in and outside the ministry entrance. With clear messages against the forest fires the …
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Thessaloniki: Anarchists stage pro-Kurdish protest in Turkish Consulate
Police in Thessaloniki has detained 12 people who staged a protest against Turkey’s invasion in Syria inside the courtyard of the Turkish General Consulate on Thursday morning. Pretending to be normal visitors of the Ataturk Museum that is located in the courtyard, members of a local organization affiliated with Rouvikonas …
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Rouvikonas anarchists attack restaurant of celebrity chef Botrini
Members of anarchist group Rouvikonas staged an attack against the restaurant of celebrity chief Ektoras Botrini in Halandri suburb of north Athens. The attack took place in the early morning hours of Friday. The members of Rouvikonas smashed the main entrance door of the restaurant and threw black and red …
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Rouvikonas anarchists vandalize Greek Parliament for the sake of 17. Nov convict
Some 30 members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas threw red paint at the Greek Parliament at Tuesday noon in solidarity with 17. November convict Dimitris Koufontinas. The group attacked at Parliament around 2 o’ clock Tuesday afternoon. The group walked up the stairs from the Monument of Unknown Soldier, threw …
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Rouvikonas claims responsibility for attack at US Ambassador Pyatt residence
Members of anarchist group Rouvikonas splashed paint and fired smoke bombs on the entrance of the residence of US Ambassador in Athens, Geoffrey Pyatt, early on Wednesday. The members of the group reportedly drove up to the residence on seven to eight motorcycles at 4 o’ clock in the morning. …
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Unknown perpetrators attack Canadian Embassy in Athens
Unknown perpetrators attacked the Canadian Embassy in Athens with sledgehammers and paint early Sunday morning. A group of some 10 people who were wearing hoods broke glass windows with sledgehammers, hurled black and red paint and fled. They left behind two sledgehammers. The attack took place at 6:10 a.m. According …
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Rouvikonas anarchists enter Church to protest halting of charity services
A group of Rouvikonas anarchists ‘raided’ a Church during the Sunday mass to protest the halting of charity services to homeless and needy. Some 15- to 20 people entered the Church of Agios Nikolaos at 9 o’ clock Sunday morning and started to chant slogans. They left and soon after …
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Minister for Public Order to send bill to Rouvikonas anarchists for …
Alternate Minister for Public Order Katerina Papakosta plans to send the bill for material damages caused by Rouvikonas to the anarchists themselves. Attacks conducted by Rouvikonas largely harm the image of the country but what they do are misdemeanor crimes, she added. In an interview with Skai TV on Wednesday, …
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Greek Jewish board condemns Rabbi Frizis’ “unacceptable” comments on Rouvikonas anarchists
The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) condemned on Tuesday as “unacceptable and provocative” the controversial comments by rabbi Mordechai Frizis who said Rouvikonas anarchists “deserve a bullet in the head” for having thrown paint at the walls of Israeli embassy in Athens. Rouvikonas threw bottles of red …
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Rouvikonas anarchists threaten hospital doctor to “cut his hand off” if he takes bribes (fakelaki) again
Members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas raided the office of a clinic director in Public Hospital Evaggelismos in downtown Athens on Wednesday. Accusing him of taking money under the hand (fakelaki) by patients, they threatened him they “would cut his hand off” if he would do it again. In a …
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Me and my straw hat through the empty streets of Greece’s news landscape
Second day of the mini heat wave in Athens. 36° Celsius short before 3 pm. It is slightly better than yesterday, when temperature reached 39 C at 3:30 early in the afternoon. A very weak wind has started to blow through the foliage of my plants in the balcony, a …
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