Left-wing terrorism still active in Greece, Europol report finds

Greece, and to a lesser extent Italy and Spain, are the only countries in the European Union still facing the threat of left-wing violence, Europol said in its annual "Terrorism Situation and Trend" (TESAT) report.

According to Europe's law enforcement agency, "left-wing and anarchist terrorist groups and individuals continued to have enhanced operational capabilities and access to military-grade weapons" in Greece in 2017, during which a total of eight attacks were carried out.

Those eight attacks account for a third of a total of 24 left-wing attributed attacks in the EU last year - a downward shift from a sharp spike to 27 attacks in 2016 from 13 the year before that.

The Greek urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire was also behind a letter-bomb campaign against foreign targets in 2017 that resulted in the injury of an employee at the Paris...