ELAS issued a statement regarding incidents that took place last night in Neo Heraklion, where a 16-year-old girl was injured and is hospitalized at “Gennimata” hospital also for episodes which followed in the Exarchia, in the early hours today.

According to information, the girl has a fracture in the occipital bone as well as a hematoma on the head and is hospitalized in the operating room.

The announcement from the Hellenic Police Headquarters:

▪ Yesterday (28/10) at around 20.15 OPKE police officers, who were searching for a group of people who had previously entered a store causing damage and injuring two people, were attacked unprovoked by about 50 people in the area of ​​Neos Heraklion.

â–ª The above persons, with their facial features covered, attacked them fiercely with stones and bottles and were immediately dispersed, without the police using their equipment.

â–ª During the departure of the aforementioned persons, the police noticed a woman wearing black clothes, gloves, a surgical mask and a hood, lying on the ground, and found that she was injured in the head.

â–ª In the attempt of the police to provide her with first aid, a group of 100 to 150 people, having similarly covered their facial features and carrying sledgehammers, wooden and metal poles and other objects, launched a new fierce attack against the police, which they had as resulting in extensive damage to 2 official vehicles and the injury of 2 police officers.

â–ª To deal with the new attack, the police officers used appropriate means, as a result of which the people fled, while the E.K.A.B. station was called to the scene. who transported, accompanied by the police, the woman to a hospital, where she is being treated. It was established that this is a 16-year-old girl, who was arrested for her participation in the aforementioned attack and was then temporarily released following the order of the competent Prosecutor. At the same time, he was examined by a medical examiner inside the Hospital.

â–ª A protective helmet cover, with black paint, 3 stones, a glass bottle and a plastic bottle were found and confiscated from the scene of the attack.

â–ª Today, in the early hours of the morning, a group of approximately 200 people gathered in Exarchia, where they split into smaller groups. Of these, a group of 80 people threw 8 Molotov cocktails, 4 of which were explosive, while they set fire to two trash cans – stones, wood and bottles at the expense of police officers from the Sub-Directorate for the Restoration of Order, who were at the scene and used appropriate means . 3 Molotov cocktails were seized, which will be sent for laboratory investigation.

â–ª A preliminary investigation into the incidents is being carried out by the Sub-Directorate of State Security, while at the same time a Preliminary Administrative Examination was ordered.