Greek officials mark decade from deadly bank firebombing

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and other officials on Tuesday marked the 10-year anniversary of the death of three bank employees in a firebomb attack during an anti-austerity riot in downtown Athens.

"Three human lives were sacrificed at the altar of bigotry and division. We honor their memory and hope that our country never again experiences outbursts of extreme polarization and blind violence," Sakellaropoulou said in a tweet.

In an address in Parliament, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis also referred to the incident, in which the three employees became trapped in a burning branch of Marfin Bank on downtown Stadiou Street on May 5, 2010, in the worst riot to rock Greece after it signed its first bailout deal with international creditors.

He described the victims as "innocent compatriots whose lives were taken… by the Molotov cocktails of hooded ...