An explosive device blast at the office of Justice Ministry’s General Secretary for Transparency & Human Rights Giorgos Sourlas on Monday morning. Giorgos Sourlas is a veteran politician from Nea Dimocratia. The blast followed two other arson attacks at a state environmental agency dealing with European Union Funds and an economic research foundation to which Yiannis Stournaras was president before appointed Finance Minister.
“A woman was transferred to the capital’s Evangelismos hospital for treatment to minor burns on Monday after an explosive device detonated outside the office of the Justice Ministry’s general secretary for transparency, Giorgos Sourlas, on the fifth floor of an apartment block central Michalakopoulou Street.
The explosion occurred as the woman was coming out of her adjacent apartment.
The blast caused minor damage to the fifth floor of the block.
Police experts were examining remnants of the explosive device for clues about the perpetrators behind the blast.
Earlier in the day, two explosive devices comprised of gas canisters went off in Athens, one shortly after 3 a.m. outside a building housing a state environmental agency, also on Michalakopoulou Street, and the other outside an office of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) in Neos Cosmos. Both blasts caused minor damage and no injuries.” (ekathimerini)
Speaking to news portal Zougla.gr, Sourlas indirectly linked the arson attack to his “intrusive work to corruption incidents.”
“I will not retreat, with a sense of responsibility I will be against those who caused the country to go bankrupt the country, against petty interests,” he said.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the blasts so far.
