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No arrests were made.Police sources told Kathimerini that yesterday and Wednesday's attacks came at a time when a large number of riot police had been sent to various parts of Greece to hep quell unrest at the country's prisons.
Anarchists had reportedly shouted slogans in support of the prisoners during their attack on various properties in Exarchia on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the protests at prisons wound down yesterday as inmates at the high-security Malandrino Prison in central Greece, which witnessed the first uprising on Monday, ended their action.
Some 200 convicts spent a third chilly night on the roof to demand better conditions at the jail and shorter sentences.
However, they returned to their cells in the afternoon.
Riot police had encircled the prison but stood by as authorities expected the protest to wind down due to the worsening weather and prisoners becoming hungry.
The Union of Prison Guards issued a statement saying there is a severe shortage of personnel at jails.
It claims that only half the positions are currently filled, while the number of inmates keeps increasing.
(((You wouldn't have guessed by the jolly, affirmative demeanour of the Athens populace that any of this was going on....
unless, that is, you were counting the occasional clusters of armored Greek cops with automatic weapons.)))
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