ATHENS, January 12 (RIA Novosti) - A shell was fired at the United States Embassy in Athens early Friday morning, but no one was injured, police and the embassy said.
The attackers apparently targeted the U.S. emblem on the embassy building, but smashed through a window on the third floor and damaged toilets.
Police are inspecting nearby buildings, and the adjacent streets have been cordoned off.
The Greek minister of public order, Vyron Plydoras, is also at the scene, consulting security officers near the embassy.
Violent clashes between demonstrators and riot police have been occasionally staged near the American Embassy in Athens. The latest rally occurred last November, when marchers came to the embassy to mark the end of the junta, which ruled in Greece in 1967-1974, and to protest against Washington's support for it as well as the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
