Terrorism in Greece

Police in Athens are investigating an incident in which unknown assailants opened fire on a nightclub on Syngrou Avenue in the early hours of Saturday.

No one was injured in the attack, but the front of the premises and a car parked outside it were damaged.

Officers found 3 shell casings, 2 projectiles and a fragment at the scene.

Citizen Protection Ministry officials are not ruling out the possibility that two military pyrotechnicians who were arrested last week for their involvement in the case of a parcel-bomb that was sent to the president of the Thessaloniki Appeals Court on February 12 may be linked to other terrorist plots, such as the attempted attack on the police riot unit headquarters in Athens last December. 

A Greek prosecutor charged 10 people on Wednesday over a series of recent bomb and hand grenade attacks, including a planned parcel bomb explosion at a court in the northern city of Thessaloniki this month, judicial sources said.

The police's Anti-Terrorism Division launched raids in different parts of Athens on Tuesday that were most likely linked to a parcel bomb that was sent to the prosecutor of the Appeal Court of Thessaloniki earlier in the month.

Urban guerrillas had gone silent since 2018. That is, until last December, when a bomb was placed outside the headquarters of the riot police in Athens last December.

That one failed to detonate; that was not the case with another bomb that exploded across the street from the Labor Ministry in central Athens on February 3, shattering the windows on the ministry's bottom two floors.

Four suspects arrested on Saturday in a police raid targeting organized crime were charged with possession of weapons and explosives on Saturday. 

Police say that they have found explosives on Navy Special Forces operators after raiding their homes, and have also arrested a former leader of an anarchist terrorist group as part of the same operation.

Kathimerini understands that the operation was targeting organized crime and not terrorist activity.

An explosive device went off outside Greece's labour ministry in central Athens early on Saturday but caused no injuries, Greek police said.

Pola Roupa, a convicted member of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group, was on Friday released from prison.

Reports say, Roupa, now 54, was granted conditional release on the grounds that she is the mother of an underage child.

The rally was on support for the hitman of the left-wing terrorist organization “November 17”, Dimitris Koufontinas, who is on hunger strike