Trucker arrested for dumping waste near Marathon

[Handout/Hellenic Police]

A truck operator has been arrested adjacent Marathon, northbound of Athens, for allegedly illegally dumping waste connected nationalist land, authorities said Monday.

A constabulary statement said the 69-year-old suspect was detained past week successful the enactment of emptying a afloat load of rubble from gathering demolition work into a fenced crippled of nationalist land. The apprehension was carried retired by members of a specialized biology extortion unit patrolling the area, who spotted the truck heading into the countryside and investigated.

The suspect faces charges of breaking biology extortion laws.

Similar operations are carried retired regularly, peculiarly astir Athens and Thessaloniki, and arrests are frequent.