Greek Police Arrest Suspect in Letter Bomb Attacks
- 7 years ago
Greek Police Arrest Suspect in Letter Bomb Attacks
Counterterrorism officers stopped the suspect while leaving an apartment block near central Athens on Saturday, while carrying several bags containing two pistols, 300 bullet cartridges, several detonators, cables, timers, gunpowder
and eight fake identity cards, a police statement said.
Mr. Papademos, a 70-year-old economist who was prime minister for six months from late 2011 to early 2012 during the height
of Greece’s debt crisis, was seriously hurt when a parcel bomb exploded in his hands as he opened it in his car in Athens.
An investigating magistrate had issued a warrant for the suspect’s arrest in connection with the letter bombs sent to "various recipients in European Union countries" in March
and another device targeting Mr. Papademos in May, according to the statement.
He is also suspected of sending several other devices to representatives of Greece’s international creditors, including to Wolfgang Schaeuble, then Germany’s finance minister;
and to the Paris offices of the International Monetary Fund.
28, 2017
ATHENS — The police in Greece on Saturday arrested a 29-year-old man who is suspected of being involved in a bomb plot
that left one of the country’s former prime ministers seriously injured.
Counterterrorism officers stopped the suspect while leaving an apartment block near central Athens on Saturday, while carrying several bags containing two pistols, 300 bullet cartridges, several detonators, cables, timers, gunpowder
and eight fake identity cards, a police statement said.
Mr. Papademos, a 70-year-old economist who was prime minister for six months from late 2011 to early 2012 during the height
of Greece’s debt crisis, was seriously hurt when a parcel bomb exploded in his hands as he opened it in his car in Athens.
An investigating magistrate had issued a warrant for the suspect’s arrest in connection with the letter bombs sent to "various recipients in European Union countries" in March
and another device targeting Mr. Papademos in May, according to the statement.
He is also suspected of sending several other devices to representatives of Greece’s international creditors, including to Wolfgang Schaeuble, then Germany’s finance minister;
and to the Paris offices of the International Monetary Fund.
28, 2017
ATHENS — The police in Greece on Saturday arrested a 29-year-old man who is suspected of being involved in a bomb plot
that left one of the country’s former prime ministers seriously injured.