Greek police arrested an Iranian national who stabbed an embassy staff member in Psychiko suburb of North Athens last week. Police arrested the 47-year-old man in Keratsini suburb of Piraeus on April 1st, five days after the attack.
The man claimed towards police that he was hearing “God’s voice telling him to kill people in the name of Allah, otherwise he would die. His next target was supposed to be the embassy of Israel he said.
His examination by a psychiatrists showed that the man was suffering from a severe mental illness.
He reportedly also confessed that he had set two Iranian embassy car on fire in 2016 and 2017.
On March 28th, the man injured with a knife a member of the Iranian embassy staff.
Two embassy employees reportedly went out to check a suspiciously behaving man. When they came close, he pulled out a knife and injured one of them.
The man had argued with the embassy staff that wanted to conduct a body control. At this point, the man pulled out the knife.
The slightly injured man was transferred to a hospital.
The attacker fled.