It needed the manifesto of an alleged urban guerrilla group for the police to mobilize and try to locate the spot of a failed attack that took place a month earlier. On Tuesday, Greek police rushed to the premises of Mercedes-Benz in Varibombi, northern Athens, after a guerrilla group “Popular Fighters” claimed to have launched a rocket attack against the company on January 12th 2014.
According to Greek media, that night in January, residents of the area had called the police because they had heard the explosion. However the police had found neither the rocket nor any remains of the attack. On Tuesday and after the manifesto, police and army units deployed to the area, discovered a 25-cm wide crater.
Anti-terror police seem to suspect fugitive members of urban guerrilla groups behind this attack.
“According to reports, witnesses of the Varibombi attack said they heard a blast at 11 p.m. and had notified authorities and had subsequently observed police officers scouting the scene for evidence. Police at the time said no evidence had been found in relation to an attack.
On Tuesday, the guerilla group also claimed reponsibiity for the attack on the residence of the German Ambassador in Athens on January 12, dedicating the hit to the memory of Dimitris Christoulas, a pensioner who shot himself on Syntagma Square in April 2012 in protest at the austerity measures.
According to reports, witnesses of the Varibombi attack said they heard a blast at 11 p.m. and had notified authorities and had subsequently observed police officers scouting the scene for evidence. Police at the time said no evidence had been found in relation to an attack.
In the proclamation letter published on To Pontiki newspaper website on Tuesday, the group claimed to have carried out the attacks in a “campaign against the German capitalist machine.”
The group also claimed an attack on the headquarters of New Democracy on Syngrou Avenue, in southern Athens, in January last year. “(source)
On April 4th 2012, retired pharmacists Dimitris Christoulas, 77, shot himself on the head behind a tree at Syntagma square just a few meters away from the Greek Parliament. He left a hand-written note, invoking the economic crisis and the austerity measures and urged the youth to take the arms.
