An incredible arsenal of hand grenades, thousands of cartridges, flares, magazines, knives, other kinds of ammunition, explosives and bullet proof vests were found by Greek Police in a house in Menidi suburb of western Athens.
The discovery came after police pursued an Albanian national and his partner in a random check near Omonia Square in downtown Athens on Friday morning.
In the vehicle, the suspect had a grenade and a bag with explosives and detonators, and this triggered a major police operation.
The man and his partner, a 33-year-old Albanian woman, were arrested and taken to judicial authorities, further search in his home in Menidi on Saturday revealed the weapons arsenal.
According to Greek media, the man was a criminal sentenced to life in prison in 2008 for drugs cases but was released from prison in 2015, newspaper tovima.gr reported, adding that he had repeatedly engaged the police for various offenses.
According to police sources, it is suspected that the man is probably a member of a group of extortionists and the explosives were intended for the construction of a bomb, which would be placed in a car or shop.
The police are still searching for at least one more suspect and their possible participation in criminal acts.
The possibility that they were transporters of weapons and explosives to their clients is reportedly also being investigated.
*pictures released by Greek Police.
Sentenced to life; released 7 years later. Goes on crime spree again. Who would have thought?
Sometimes you just need to keep people out of your society because they will not repent nor leave their ways.
Human rights? Yeah, so do his future victims.
may he new the 3rd degree cousin of the brother-in-law of the cleaning lady of the sister of the judge
lol!
Sometimes in life it is not what you know but who you know…