Thursday, December 30, 2010

Explosion outside a court in Athens

A bomb exploded outside a court in the Greek capital, Athens, Thursday, December 30. A phone call warning sent to a TV station and a newspaper had allowed the evacuation of the area. Police said the bomb exploded at 8 h 20 local time (7 h 20 to Paris). Television images showed smoke rising from the building before the trial court in Athens, several windows were shattered.

There was no immediate information on possible casualties. According to initial findings, the equipment was placed on a motorcycle. "The explosion was quite strong. I'm 100 meters and just fell of my shelves," said a business district on TV Alter Channel that received the warning call about forty minutes before the blast and alerted police.

There was no immediate claim for the attack, which comes two weeks before the trial of a dozen suspected members of a radical anarchist group. Early November in Greece had been a series of attacks and attempts to parcel bombs cons including embassies, attributed to radical anarchists.

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