Greek police has learned from an anarchists’ website on Tuesday night that an explosive device went off behind the Evelpidon court building in Athens on Saturday. Police teams have found and are examining the bomb remnants. The bomb was reportedly placed at a guard’s post between Pedion to Areos Park and the court building complex.
Police reportedly estimates that the explosive mechanism was of low detonation power, so small that the explosion was not perceived by anyone.
A guerilla group calling themselves “Circle of Asymmetric Urban Warfare – Informal Anarchist Federation – International Revolutionary Front/FAI-FAR” uploaded a post on a anti-authoritarian website claiming responsibility for the device.
The group said it placed a bomb consisting of half a kilo gun powder and a timer behind the Evelpidon court last Saturday, March 24th.
Furthermore, the group said its act was in solidarity with several jailed anarchists, including Konstantinos Yiatzoglou, who was detained for having send a parcel bomb to former prime minister Lukas Papadimos as well as to ex German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in Berlin and the IMF branch in Paris. The device was also in protest of the police raids to squats in Athens and other cities.
It is reportedly the first time such a group appears.
Short after 10 o’ clock Wednesday morning an anonymous caller called daily Efirmerida ton Syntakton warning a bomb place at Evelpidon court would explode in an hour. The daily informed the Police that evacuated building No 9 of the court complex.
Investigation is being conducted in the court.
