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| Greek police arrest suspect in bomb attack on ex-premier | |
| 2017-10-29 | |
[Ynet] Greek police tossed in the calabooseKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a 29-year-old suspect Saturday in a kaboom last May on one of the country's former prime ministers. After a search of his apartment in Athens, police found two 9-mm pistols; 300 bullets; a plastic container with a time bomb mechanism; two plastic containers with explosives; eight forged IDs and "large amounts" of detonators, wiring, fireworks and timers. Lucas Papademos, 70, was maimed in the thigh and torso on May 25 when he opened a letter bomb in his car. He was hospitalized for over a month. Two others were slightly injured. Police say the suspect, who they have not named, may have also been involved in mailing parcel bombs last March to the German Finance Ministry and the Gay Paree office of the International Monetary Fund, where a small kaboom injured one person.
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a 29-year-old Greek man in Athens, police said in a statement. The man was known to police for his myrmidon activities, a police source said. The attack, which remains unclaimed, had a similar methodology to that used by Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a far-left group which in March mailed an bomb that injured a secretary at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Gay Paree. The group had earlier grabbed credit for a letter bomb, also sent from Greece, discovered at the Berlin offices of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. The bombs contained gunpowder typically used in firecrackers, police said. Eight other letter bombs, including those addressed to European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici and then Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem, were intercepted in the aftermath of the Athens attack. In 2011, a dozen members of Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, many of whom were very young, were convicted of "participating in a criminal organization" and are serving long prison sentences. After years of crisis and austerity cuts, the Greek economy is still struggling, and experts have said that the country's continued crisis favours youth radicalisation. In 2012, Papademos's government came under criticism after it negotiated a huge write-down of the country's privately held debt, which led to Greek social insurance funds losing millions of euros in the process. He also served as Bank of Greece governor from 1994 to 2002. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 After a search of his apartment in Athens, police found two 9-mm pistols; 300 bullets; a plastic container with a time bomb mechanism; two plastic containers with explosives; eight forged IDs and "large amounts" of detonators, wiring, fireworks and timers. "Hey, man. Those are for personal use!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-10-29 09:39 |