Dozens of riot police were deployed Tuesday to prevent small groups of extreme right-wing protesters from disrupting the prayers at one inner city site.
The head of an extreme right-wing party won more than 5 per cent of the vote in Athens in a municipal election Sunday, winning a seat on the local council after campaigning on anti-immigrant issues and against government plans to build a state-funded mosque in the Greek capital.
Greece is the busiest transit point in the European Union for illegal immigration, accounting for 90 per cent of the European Union's detentions of illegal immigrants.
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