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Daily Mirror
03-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Woman killed in Thessaloniki bomb explosion as police probe Greece bank attack plot
A woman carrying a bomb outside a bank has been killed after the explosive went off in her hands, according to police. The 38-year-old woman was killed at around 5am Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. She was reportedly carrying the bomb to place it outside a nearby bank, police said. Several storefronts and vehicles were damaged by the woman was known to authorities after taking part in several past robberies, according to police, who said they are investigating her possible ties to extreme leftist groups. "It appears that she was carrying an explosive device and planned to plant it a bank's ATM," a senior police official told local media. "Something went wrong and exploded in her hands," the official added. Greek police forensic experts searching the area, while police probed the incident. It comes just weeks after a new extremist group claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece's main railway services operator and the planting of another near the Labour Ministry in early February. The explosion Friday evening resulted in limited damage and no injuries. The perpetrators had forewarned of the explosion by calling two media organisations about 40 minutes before it happened. In a lengthy posting on the website on Sunday, the perpetrators, who styled themselves the Revolutionary Class Struggle, explained the reasons for their action, which they said was part of an armed struggle against the state. Revolutionary Class Struggle dedicated the bombings to 'the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance' and paid tribute to Kyriakos Xymitiris, a man who was killed last year when the explosive device he was assembling exploded in a central Athens apartment.
Al Jazeera
14-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Greek police probe hardline group claims on bombing attacks
Greek police say they are investigating claims by an unknown hardline group that it was responsible for a couple of bomb blasts that rocked Athens over the past year. A police spokeswoman told Greek media on Monday that the authorities were examining a statement issued by Revolutionary Class Struggle that it was behind an explosion on Friday near the offices of railway operator Hellenic Train last week, as well as an attack at the Ministry of Labour last year. The group posted a statement on the website on Sunday, which dedicated both the attacks to 'the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance'. 'The claim is being examined with great attention by the relevant officers so that they can gather information,' police spokeswoman Constantina Dimoglidou told Action 24 TV. She said it was too early to draw conclusions about the group's identity but police were investigating possible links with other cases in the past. The Revolutionary Class Struggle statement blamed Hellenic Train, a unit of Italy's Ferrovie dello Stato, for a rail accident in 2023 near the Greek village of Tempi. The crash, which killed 57 people, has led to numerous protests over deficiencies in the railway system and claims of government corruption. The group's statement branded them demonstrations against 'state capitalist crime', and sought to link them to Palestine and the war in Gaza 'since they took place within a country with an active role in the American-Zionist genocidal war'. The statement also said the group was behind a 2024 attack on the Labour Ministry. Neither attack resulted in any injuries as warnings were sent in advance. Hellenic Train, the operator of passenger and cargo train services, was once a subsidiary of state-owned Hellenic Railways. In February, Greece's Air and Rail Accident Investigation Authority (HARSIA) said the 2023 accident was due to chronic safety gaps and that they still needed to be addressed to prevent a repeat. Christos Papadimitriou, the head of HARSIA, resigned on Wednesday, a move expected to further stall efforts to shed light on the country's worst rail disaster. A judicial investigation is expected to conclude this year.
Arab Times
14-04-2025
- Politics
- Arab Times
New armed extremist group claims responsibility for bombing near Greece's rail headquarters
ATHENS, Greece, April 14, (AP): A new extremist group claimed responsibility Sunday for a bomb that exploded near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece's main railway services operator and the planting of another near the Labor Ministry in early February. The explosion Friday evening resulted in limited damage and no injuries. The perpetrators had forewarned of the explosion by calling two media organizations about 40 minutes before it happened. In a lengthy posting on the website on Sunday, the perpetrators, who styled themselves the Revolutionary Class Struggle, explained the reasons for their action, which they said was part of an armed struggle against the state. Revolutionary Class Struggle dedicated the bombings to "the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance' and paid tribute to Kyriakos Xymitiris, a man who was killed last year when the explosive device he was assembling exploded in a central Athens apartment. The explosion also came during widespread public anger over a 2023 railway disaster, Greece's worst, in which 57 people were killed and dozens more injured when a freight train and a passenger train heading in opposite directions were accidentally put on the same track. The deadly accident exposed severe deficiencies in Greece's railway system, including in safety systems, and has triggered mass protests led by relatives of the victims against the country's conservative government on the occasion of the accident's second anniversary. In its statement, which serves as a sort of manifesto, Revolutionary Class Struggle connects the accident with what it called the "murders' of the proletariat in the form of workplace accidents, by capitalists. Greece has a long history of politically motivated violence dating back to the 1970s, with domestic extremist groups carrying out small-scale bombings that usually cause damage but rarely lead to injuries. While the groups most active in the 1980s and 1990s have been dismantled, new smaller groups have emerged. Authorities are calling them a new generation of domestic extremists. "With the blood not yet dry, they attributed the (train) accident to human error and the 'chronic deficiencies of the Greek state,' in effect demanding even more freedom of movement for capital, more privatizations and new attacks on any remaining state-owned infrastructure,' the extremist group said. Hellenic Train, the operator of passenger and cargo train services, was once a subsidiary of state-owned Hellenic Railways. It was split and sold to Italy's Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane in 2017. Hellenic Railways retains ownership and responsibility for the maintenance of the rail infrastructure, including the train stations. Police say they are following leads, including images of one or two individuals on security cameras and possible cellphone conversations.
The Independent
14-04-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
New extremist group claims responsibility for Athens bombing
A new extremist group has claimed responsibility for the bomb that exploded near the offices of Hellenic Train in Athens, Greece 's main railway services operator. They also took responsibility for the planting of another near the Labor Ministry in early February. The explosion Friday evening resulted in limited damage and no injuries. The perpetrators had forewarned of the explosion by calling two media organizations about 40 minutes before it happened. In a lengthy posting on the website on Sunday, the perpetrators, who styled themselves the Revolutionary Class Struggle, explained the reasons for their action, which they said was part of an armed struggle against the state. Revolutionary Class Struggle dedicated the bombings to 'the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance' and paid tribute to Kyriakos Xymitiris, a man who was killed last year when the explosive device he was assembling exploded in a central Athens apartment. The explosion also came during widespread public anger over a 2023 railway disaster, Greece's worst, in which 57 people were killed and dozens more injured when a freight train and a passenger train heading in opposite directions were accidentally put on the same track. The deadly accident exposed severe deficiencies in Greece's railway system, including in safety systems, and has triggered mass protests led by relatives of the victims against the country's conservative government on the occasion of the accident's second anniversary. In its statement, which serves as a sort of manifesto, Revolutionary Class Struggle connects the accident with what it called the 'murders' of the proletariat in the form of workplace accidents, by capitalists. Greece has a long history of politically motivated violence dating back to the 1970s, with domestic extremist groups carrying out small-scale bombings that usually cause damage but rarely lead to injuries. While the groups most active in the 1980s and 1990s have been dismantled, new smaller groups have emerged. Authorities are calling them a new generation of domestic extremists. 'With the blood not yet dry, they attributed the (train) accident to human error and the 'chronic deficiencies of the Greek state,' in effect demanding even more freedom of movement for capital, more privatizations and new attacks on any remaining state-owned infrastructure,' the extremist group said. Hellenic Train, the operator of passenger and cargo train services, was once a subsidiary of state-owned Hellenic Railways. It was split and sold to Italy 's Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane in 2017. Hellenic Railways retains ownership and responsibility for the maintenance of the rail infrastructure, including the train stations. Police say they are following leads, including images of one or two individuals on security cameras and possible cellphone conversations.
