 An urban guerrilla offensive seems to be underway in Athens with two
major bomb attacks within the last 48 hours, one against the
headquarters of the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn, and one against the
Police Directorship for Immigrants.
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The first bomb exploded a little after 8:00
a.m. on Friday 19 March at the headquarters of Chrisi Avgi (Golden
Dawn) the neon-nazi party of greece, an organisation responsible for
countless murder attempts, arson attacks and pogroms against
immigrants, leftists and anarchists. The group is led by Mr
Mihaloliakos a convicted bomber who founded the Golden Dawn in the
early 1980s under the direct orders of the imprisoned head of the
colonels junta, Georgios Papadopoulos. The daily Eleftherotypia has
published documents of Mr Mihaloliakos salary details in the service of
EYP, the greek secret services. The bomb that hit the offices on
Sokratous street had been pre-announced to the daily Eleftherotypia,
giving 20 minutes to evacuate the building and the near by hotel.
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The bomb, which has been estimated by the police as "very strong"
but with a slow diffusion as to minimise the blast wave that could
damage near-by buildings, has demolished the officers, creating a
crater through the concrete floor and leaving none but cement columns
standing. To this moment no urban guerrilla group has claimed
responsibility for the attack which the anti-terrorist bureau has
coined "a classic divergence tactic" in relation to the investigations
on Lambros Foundas, the 35 year old anarchist shot dead during a gun
battle with the police earlier this week. The man is proclaimed by the
anti-terrorist bureau as "a key member of one of the big new generation
terrorist groups" of greece. Anarchist have launched an extended
campaign in honour of Lambros Foundas with thousands of posters and a
one thousand strong protest march to the spot of his assassination
being realised today noon.
The second bomb exploded at 15:58 p.m on Saturday 20 March at the
Police Directorship for Immigrants (Allodapon) at Petrou Ralli avenue,
Athens. Allodapon is the notorious camp-like place where all immigrants
have to stand in line for endless hours waiting for papers applications
while cops brutalise them indiscriminately. There have been many deaths
of immigrants as a result of police brutality, as well as protest
marches and clashes with the police as a result (all covered in earlier
postings in libcom). The explosion was pre-announced to the daily
Elefterotypia with a phone-call that allowed 20 minutes to evacuate the
buildings and close of the streets. The bomb, which is claimed by the
police to be "strong" has damaged part of the premises, while its blast
wave has also damaged shops across the avenue, with no human injuries
due to the evacuation. Both this and the bomb in Sokratous street were
time-bombs.
The bomb attacks come after more than a month of a lull by urban
guerrilla groups which has launched a winter offensive during December
and January. It must be noticed that the small bomb that hit the house
of the vice-president of the Pakistani community yesterday is widely
considered to be related to the Pakistani secret services (due to the
fact that it has been proceeded by the assassination of an embassy
official of Pakistan) and not to domestic armed struggle.
From Libcom
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