Petrol bombs were thrown at the Athens home of the brother of Greece’s government spokesman early on Sunday, causing minor damage but no injuries, police said.
Police blamed the attack on far-left protesters angry at a police raid last week that cleared a squat popular with anti-establishment groups. About 100 people were arrested during the raid.
“It’s a reaction to the police operation over the last few days to evacuate various occupied buildings,” said a police official.
In a statement, the conservative-led government’s spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said:
“The whole of the political world must condemn unreservedly and without exceptions the attempt to spread violence in our society,” “Democracy cannot be terrorized.”
SYRIZA has accused the government of trying to create a “civil war-type climate” by accusing the leftists of being linked to such attacks in order to draw the public’s attention from austerity measures and the Lagarde list scandal.
(source: Reuters)
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