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Firebomb attacks in northern Greek city injure 5, including one critically
AP News • • general
Key Points:
- Three pre-dawn firebomb attacks targeted residences of Greece’s ruling New Democracy party members in Thessaloniki, resulting in five hospitalizations, including one person in critical condition.
- The attacks involved crude explosive devices made from camping gas canisters, with injuries occurring during the last attack where vehicles were set on fire.
- Afroditi Nestora, a New Democracy parliamentary candidate, and her parents were among the injured, with her mother intubated and in intensive care.
- Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis condemned the attacks as "cowardly" and emphasized that violence has no place in society, promising that perpetrators will be dealt with as criminals.
- Such militant attacks on political figures and authorities are relatively common in Greece, though usually cause only material damage; New Democracy officials labeled this incident a terrorist attack aimed at killing.
