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Four gunmen open fire on Athens police station, wounding six officers

Wed, Oct 28 2009 10:53 CET byNick Iliev 758 Views
Four gunmen open fire on Athens police station, wounding six officers

Photo: Giorgos Karahalis

Four masked gunmen sprayed a police station in the northern Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi with automatic fire late on October 27 2009, wounding six officers, two of them critically, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) reported on October 28.

Following the shoot-out, the men escaped on motorbikes. Greek authorities subsequently found one of the motorbikes near the station. According to police reports, a total of seven people were injured, including a female officer and a bystander. In the attack, about 50 rounds were expended, reports say.

Greek authorities have connected the attack to a Greek terrorist organisation that goes by the name of Revolutionary Struggle. The organisation is also linked to a separate attack on a police station in the borough of Nea Ionia, the Greek Kathimerini has said.

Police suspect that the group, which it has labelled as "self-styled anarchists", was also involved in an armed robbery on a branch of the Greek national bank in central Athens in January 2006.

Citizens’ protection minister Michalis Chrysochoidis offered on October 27 a reward of 600 000 euro to anyone who can provide information on the outfit knows as the "robbers in black".

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