Officers of the Immediate Action rapid-response unit, with OPKE special operations forces, arrested a 36-year-old man in Nikaia, a western suburb of Piraeus in Attica.[1][2] Protothema reported that the incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday 3 November 2026.[3][4]

Officers went to the area after a call about a man firing a shotgun into the air and found five spent cartridge cases and, nearby, the 36-year-old holding a shotgun.[5][2] The man tried to flee and turned the weapon toward the officers, who restrained him despite his resistance.[5][2][6]

A search of his home by the Nikaia–Agios Ioannis Rentis crime-investigation department found and seized 999 grams of cannabis, two precision electronic scales, five more shotguns and a revolver loaded with a cartridge.[5][2][6] Officers also confiscated a large number of folding knives, fixed-blade knives, axes, bows and swords, three arrows, 78 cartridges and a knife and cartridge found on the man.[5] A case file was opened against him for breaches of the weapons and narcotics laws, disobedience, violence against officials and damage to foreign property, and he was taken to the public prosecutor.[5][2]

The Athens daily Kathimerini put the quantity at one kilogram of cannabis.[1][4] In Nikaia officers from Immediate Action were called for a man firing a shotgun, and they went to the spot with OPKE forces.[1] The night-time incident attributed to the 36-year-old involved firing a shotgun into the air and then aiming it at officers as they arrived, the Hellenic Police account given to Protothema said.[3][4]