A third year cadet at the Hellenic Army military academy has admitted the theft of a .45 pistol from the school's armory.

Ioannis Kazatzoglou, 32, has been arrested on charges of immediate complicity, as he was in the car driven by Giorgos Roupakias, on the night Pavlos Fyssas was murdered.

New Democracy leads by a very narrow 0.5 % over main opposition SYRIZA, according to an opinion poll conducted by GPO for broadcaster MEGA.