SYRIZA MP apologizes for firebomb comment

SYRIZA MP Giorgos Kyritsis issued an apology on Thursday over his claim that nobody had died in Greece from petrol bombs, after he was accused of offending the victims of a deadly firebomb attack on a branch of Marfin Bank in central Athens during anti-austerity riots in May 2010.
Kyritsis on Wednesday defended government plans to change the country's criminal code that would reduce the manufacture and possession of homemade firebombs from a felony to a misdemeanor, in which the leftist MP said that "in the 30 or more years that I worked as a journalist I do not recollect anyone being killed by a Molotov cocktail."
"My statement was wrong. The reason is that the crime committed in Marfin holds a distinct place in the collective consciousness of Greek society. The crime in Marfin had no precedent and thankfully there has not been a similar crime since," he told news...