Unidentified arsonists attacked the offices of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in Thessaloniki's Harilaou, Toumba and Triandria districts early on Friday morning, setting fire to the entrance and interior of the offices using a flammable liquid.
Revolutionary Struggle suspects Nikos Maziotis, Panayiota Roupa and Kostas Gournas were freed a day after their trial on a variety of felony counts began on Wednesday.
Bank accounts of individuals linked with terrorist cases can be legally blocked, according to a decision taken on Thursday by Greece's money-laundering watchdog.
A cache of heavy weaponry has been found in the basement apartment in Thessaloniki where a Kurdish man was killed in a grenade explosion on Tuesday, police said on Thursday.
A makeshift explosive device was found late Wednesday in the Athens suburb of Kifisia. The device, comprised of four small propane canisters and a bottle containing a flammable liquid, was placed in a carton box in front of a bank at the local shopping centre.
A Piraeus court on Monday refused to allow the temporary release of convicted 'November 17' terrorist Savvas Xiros from prison so that he might be admitted to hospital and receive treatment for a series of health problems afflicted on him during a 2002 bomb blast that led to his arrest.
The suspected terrorist injured in last Wednesday's shootout in the northern Athens suburb of Pefki has been identified by the police as Theophilos Mavropoulos. The suspect is allegedly associated with the "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" terrorist group.
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