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Main Opposition Chief Among Targets of Arrested Greek Terrorists

The names of New Democracy president Kyriakos Mitsotakis and former prime minister Antonis Samaras, also member of the conservative party, were on the list of targets of arrested terrorist Paula Roupa. As reported after the arrest of Roupa and her...

War of Words as Athens Mayor Calls for Toskas to Resign

For the second time this week, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis has called for the resignation of Nikos Toskas, the Citizens' Protection Minister, in light of the vandalism and acts of violence that have taken place throughout the city in recent...

Athens Mayor Asks for Resignation of Citizen Protection Minister

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Wednesday asked that Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas to resign for tolerating anarchists who burn down urban buses. "I want Mr. Toskas to tell us in which European capital people systematically burn down buses...

Greek PM Tsipras and Cabinet in Yet Another Show of Hypocrisy After Police Tear-Gas Pensioners

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reprimanded Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas for using tear gas against pensioners who were protesting the new pension cuts. After pictures of sad old men with swollen, teary eyes made the rounds in the...

Greek Police Force Streamlined: 258 Services Slashed

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) presented its new structure on Thursday. Plans for the abolition of 258 services were announced, reducing the force's current 1,206 police departments. By streamlining the organization to 948 departments, there will be an economizing of...

Athens Mayor Calls on Gov't to Empty Squats Used for Housing Migrants

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis sent a letter to Citizen Protection and Migration Policy Ministers Nikos Toskas and Yannis Mouzalas asking for the evacuation of squats used for migrant accommodation. In the letter, that was also forwarded to Prime Minister Alexis...

Six Idomeni Residents Sue Alternate Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas

Six residents from the village of Idomeni on the Greek border, including the community's president Xanthoula Soupli, on Wednesday filed a legal suit against Alternate Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas for failing to protect the village from problems created...

Greece Denies FYROM Police Operated on Greek Soil to Thwart Refugees

Citizen Protection Deputy Minister Nikos Toskas stated that FYROM police did not operate on Greek soil to thwart migrants during Sunday's violent riot on the neutral zone between the two countries at Idomeni. Speaking on Skai television on Monday morning,...

Greece Plans to Accommodate Refugees on Uninhabited Islets

Alternate Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, announced on Tuesday from Chios that "the government is planning the transportation of refugees and migrants to neighboring uninhabited islets." Chios is the Minister's second "stop" for Tuesday, as he is visiting the hot...

Meeting in Parliament Postponed; Emergency Meeting in Maximos Mansion

Tuesday's political agenda is shifting rapidly in Athens after the dreadful terrorist attacks that occurred in Brussels this morning. More precisely, the afternoon Plenary Session that was scheduled in the Parliament with the initiative of PM Alexis Tsipras in order...