Athens - Police in Athens confirmed on Sunday that an investigation is taking place into allegations that officers had ordered a public strip search in a neighbourhood with a large immigrant population.
"Any officer who may be implicated in this affair will be subject to disciplinary sanctions," said a Greek police headquarters statement after allegations by the newspaper Ethnos.
Under the headline "Guantanamo images in the centre of Athens" the paper showed six pictures of a man stripping in front of police officers under the gaze of passers-by earlier this month during an identity check.
"It is a case of extreme racism...it is not a momentary mistake but the ordinary method used against immigrants," the newspaper was told by a representative of an anti-war group one of whose members took the pictures.
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Local media say the area around Omonia Square, with a large population of Nigerian, Afghan and Pakistani immigrants, has in recent years been turned into a ghetto where drug trafficking and prostitution by young African women have become "out of control". - Sapa-AFP
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