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.
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The police’s Anti-Terrorism Division launched a crackdown on Tuesday against urban guerrilla groups operating in different parts of the Greek capital, including, reportedly, from two prisons.
Bomb threats were reported at the embassies of the United States, Israel, and Egypt in Athens on Friday.
A previously unknown anarchist guerrilla group group identifying themselves as “Armed Response” has claimed responsibility for the failed bomb attack against a judge at the Thessaloniki courthouse in northern Greece last week, the third such incident since December.
Authorities are no longer under alert as the contents of the suspicious package do not pose a threat. A suspicious package, addressed to Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis, was found at the Education Ministry earlier on Wednesday.
Investigators are reportedly working on the assumption that the envelope containing explosives that was sent on Monday to the Thessaloniki courthouse addressed to the president of the Court of Appeal was an attempted terrorist attack without, however, correlating the case with the recent strikes at the headquarters of the riot police in Goudi and the Ministry of Labor.
Counterterrorism police in Turkey have arrested an Islamic State group suspect who was working at a nuclear power plant being built in the country’s south, local media reported Tuesday. The Russian national had been working at the Akkuyu nuclear facility under false identity papers, the Ihlas News Agency and other media reported. The $20 billion […]
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.
Explosives sent to the northern port city of Thessaloniki’s Courthouse earlier on Monday enclosed in an envelope were successfully defused by the bomb disposal unit, the police announced.
The Thessaloniki courthouse was evacuated on Monday following the discovery of a suspicious parcel, according to local media reports.
Turkish authorities detained 17 people in connection with an attack at an Istanbul campaign event for upcoming municipal elections, Turkey ‘s interior minister said Sunday. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya provided no details on the assailants’ affiliation or motive for the attack that critically injured a woman. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an election rally […]
Two people attacked Turkey’s largest courthouse before being shot dead Tuesday in an exchange of fire that also left one other person dead and five wounded. Authorities alleged the assailants were part of an extremist organization that had been largely inactive in recent years.
A fingerprint on the bomb that was placed on the fence of the riot police camp in the Athens suburb of Kaisariani in December but was not detonated, as well as video footage of the Labor Ministry bombers’ movements on Saturday morning, are guiding police investigations into the two recent terrorist acts.
An explosive device went off outside Greece’s labour ministry in central Athens early on Saturday but caused no injuries, Greek police said.
Anti-terrorism police are investigating a bomb explosion near the Labor Ministry in downtown Stadiou Street that caused material damage to the building. Police and firefighters had cordoned off the area when the bomb went off.
Police have rescued seven hostages held at gunpoint for hours at a factory owned by US company Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey, local officials said early Friday.
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