Skai TV bomb blast: An attack against freedom of the press

After a relative lull in recent months, urban terrorism returned to the fore on Monday morning with a bomb attack at the building housing the headquarters of Skai TV and Kathimerini newspaper in southern Athens.

Greek Police (ELAS) investigating the early morning bomb blast suspect that a far-left organization calling itself Group of Popular Fighters may be behind the attack and are examining footage from the building's surveillance cameras, as well as a torched car that may have been used by the bombers to flee the scene before the explosion which occurred at 2.37 a.m.

The powerful blast caused extensive damage to the building's glass front but no injuries - as the facility had been evacuated following warning calls to two other media outlets shortly before 2 a.m.

Forensic experts said that a backpack containing around 10 kilograms of explosives was...

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