Twelve released over explosion at Dafni police station
Twelve people were released early on Sunday after being rounded up by police on suspicion of placing self-made bombs outside the police station in the Dafni district of Athens on Saturday night.
About 25 people wearing hoodies and helmets threw several bombs at the station a little after 22:30 on Saturday, damaging three police cars but without injuring anyone. Police of the motorcycle squad (Dias) arrested twelve people for identification.
Early on Sunday morning, at 04:30, another police station was attacked by self-made bombs in the Zografos section of Athens, in a similar manner. They slightly damaged the entrance to the building and the roof of a police car parket outside. Police did not find them.
In other incidents, this time around the Athens Polytechnic, two people aged 20 and 21 were arrested on Saturday and were expected to appear before prosecutors today, Sunday, following an anti-establishment rally in the centre of Athens. Case files were drawn up against them for damaging property and disturbing the peace.
According to police, a group participating in a march from Monastiraki Square to Syntagma spraypainted buildings and injured a Monastiraki shop owner. Then some of the same people walked to the Polytechnic, entered the building and placed trash bins as barricades before setting them on fire, after which they attacked police with stones and other objects.
The 21-year-old has been arrested previously for similar incidents in December 2014 and was set free on condition he would appear at the local police station the first half of each month.
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