GREECE: Homemade bomb explodes in garbage bin close to Greek Prime Ministers campaign rally.

Record ID: 359273

  • Title: GREECE: Homemade bomb explodes in garbage bin close to Greek Prime Ministers campaign rally.
  • Date: 3rd October 2009
  • Summary: ATHENS, GREECE (OCTOBER 2, 2009) (REUTERS) POLICE BLOCKING OFF STREET OF ATTACK GARBAGE AND DEBRIS FROM EXPLODED BIN WHERE BOMB WAS PLACED SCATTERED ON THE GROUND COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICE SQUAD IN WHITE UNIFORMS GATHERING CLUES AT SITE MOTORCYCLES KNOCKED OVER FROM ATTACK VARIOUS OF POLICE OF COUNTER TERRORISM SQUAD IN WHITE UNIFORMS SEARCHING SITE POLICE GUARDING SI
  • Embargoed: 18th October 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Greece
  • Country: Greece
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA4TFHZ7VCYKRQ4L7XT9RHM1AP8
  • Story Text: A small homemade bomb explodes in a garbage bin on a street close to where Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis was holding his final party campaign rally before elections. Slight damages were reported and no injuries.
    A homemade bomb with a timer went off in a garbage bin near where the Greek Prime Minister was giving his final party campaign rally before elections on Friday (October 2).
    Police said the device was in a cooking pot in a garbage bin on a street one block, some 100 metres away, from the site of a large rally by New Democracy party supporters where Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis was giving a pre election campaign speech.
    The bomb damaged several motorcycles parked next to the bin and the smashed the windows of an apartment building and a nearby shop. No one was injured.
    Police from the counter-terrorism unit arrived on the scene to investigate.
    A witness who was at the site when the bomb exploded described what she had seen.
    "I saw a very large flash, a lot of smoke, and it smelled like gunpowder. I saw motorcycles exploding to pieces and windows smashing," she said.
    Police said a warning call had been made to a local newspaper before the bomb exploded.
    The apartment of an opposition socialist PASOK party member was also targeted with a bomb last week, and youths threw petrol bombs at the party's offices, as the country goes to elections on October 4.
    Police arrested four people following that bombing suspected of involvement in bomb attacks across the capital in the last nine months.
    Several bombings have taken place in the capital by various Anarchist or guerrilla groups opposed to government policies since December 2008, when a teenager was shot by police that sparked riots in the streets. The bombs have been homemade devices or gas canisters and have targeted businesses, politicians offices, and the stock exchange.
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