On Thursday, an explosion in an apartment in the Greek capital killed a man and seriously injured a woman. The accidental detonation of a homemade bomb could have been the cause of the incident. Greek anti-terrorism investigators have arrested a man in connection with the explosion, police announced Saturday, warning of “a new generation of terrorists.”
The body, identified from his dismembered remains, is that of a 36-year-old man from the port city of Piraeus, who had already been arrested in Germany, police sources said. His fingerprints are in the international database of Europol, the European Union's police agency, these sources added.
An investigation for alleged membership in a terrorist organization and terrorist acts was opened against the injured woman, aged 33, who was hospitalized under police surveillance, and another woman, aged 30 , who is on the run. The arrested man was taken into custody after turning himself in on Friday, police said. He is believed to be linked to one of the two women in the case, but has denied any connection to the explosion, she added.
According to the Athens News Agency (ANA), prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the two women and charged them and the man with four terrorism-related crimes and two misdemeanors. A search of the apartment revealed, among other things, two handguns, wigs and masks. The investigation is continuing, police sources indicated, estimating that the deceased as well as the accused probably belonged to “a new generation of terrorists”.
The country has a decades-long history of far-left violence involving small, organized groups. Over the past decade, dozens of arsons and bombings have hit financial, diplomatic and political targets in Greece, with police blaming radical anarchists.
