Marfin Bank

Greek politicians from across the spectrum on Saturday paid their respects to the three bank employees who died when protesters firebombed a branch of Marfin bank in central Athens eight years ago during an anti-austerity protest at the onset of Greece's financial crisis.

Seven years since three people, including one pregnant woman, died during an arson attack by anti-austerity protesters on a central Athens branch of Marfin Bank, Greece's conservative opposition leader on Friday called for the arrest and punishment of those responsible for the crime.

An Athens court on Monday acquitted 34-year-old defendant Theodoros Sipsas of all charges related to the firebombing of a branch of Marfin Bank in central Athens during an anti-austerity riot in 2010 that led to the death of three bank workers.

Bank clerks testifying at the trial over the deadly May 2010 firebombing of a central Athens branch of Marfin Bank, which resulted in the death of three employees, said they had been targeted by hooded assailants during a large anti-austerity protest.

The chairman of Marfin Investment Group (MIG) Andreas Vgenopoulos and 14 Marfin Bank executives were facing felony charges in connection to a loan allegedly granted to investment firm IRF, it emerged on Thursday. The firm is owned by shipowner Angeliki Frangou.

The trial into the deadly May 2010 firebombing of a central Athens branch of Marfin Bank, which resulted in the death of three employees, started on Monday with harrowing testimony from the victims' colleagues.

A court in Athens is due on Monday to start hearing the case against a man accused of causing the death of three bank employees during a violent anti-austerity protest in the city center in May 2010.

Thursday marked six years since the firebomb attack on a branch of Marfin Bank in central Athens that killed three people, including a pregnant woman. The three employees were killed as a result of a blind act of violence that was supposedly aimed against the so-called establishment.

People lay flowers Thursday at the site of an arson attack in central Athens that left three bank employees, including one pregnant woman, dead six years ago. The fire broke out after arsonists attacked the brunch of Marfin Bank on Stadiou Avenue during an anti-austerity rally on May 5 in 2010. No one has been convicted of causing the fire.

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