New armed extremist group claims responsibility for bombing near rail company headquarters

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A caller extremist radical claimed work Sunday for a weaponry that exploded adjacent the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway services relation and the planting of different adjacent the Labor Ministry successful aboriginal February.

The detonation Friday evening resulted successful constricted harm and nary injuries. The perpetrators had forewarned of the detonation by calling 2 media organizations astir 40 minutes earlier it happened.

In a lengthy posting connected the website Athens.indymedia.org connected Sunday, the perpetrators, who styled themselves the Revolutionary Class Struggle, explained the reasons for their action, which they said was portion of an equipped conflict against the state.

Revolutionary Class Struggle dedicated the bombings to “the Palestinian radical and their heroic resistance” and paid tribute to Kyriakos Xymitiris, a antheral who was killed past twelvemonth erstwhile the explosive instrumentality helium was assembling exploded successful a cardinal Athens apartment.

The detonation besides came during wide nationalist choler implicit a 2023 railway disaster, Greece’s worst, successful which 57 radical were killed and dozens much injured erstwhile a freight bid and a rider bid heading successful other directions were accidentally enactment connected the aforesaid track.

The deadly mishap exposed terrible deficiencies successful Greece’s railway system, including successful information systems, and has triggered wide protests led by relatives of the victims against the country’s blimpish authorities connected the juncture of the accident’s 2nd anniversary.

In its statement, which serves arsenic a benignant of manifesto, Revolutionary Class Struggle connects the mishap with what it called the “murders” of the proletariat successful the signifier of workplace accidents, by capitalists.

Greece has a agelong past of politically motivated unit dating backmost to the 1970s, with home extremist groups carrying retired small-scale bombings that usually origin harm but seldom pb to injuries.

While the groups astir progressive successful the 1980s and 1990s person been dismantled, caller smaller groups person emerged. Authorities are calling them a caller procreation of home extremists.

“With the humor not yet dry, they attributed the (train) mishap to quality mistake and the ‘chronic deficiencies of the Greek state,’ successful effect demanding adjacent much state of question for capital, much privatizations and caller attacks connected immoderate remaining state-owned infrastructure,” the extremist radical said.

Hellenic Train, the relation of rider and cargo bid services, was erstwhile a subsidiary of state-owned Hellenic Railways. It was divided and sold to Italy’s Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane successful 2017. Hellenic Railways retains ownership and work for the attraction of the obstruction infrastructure, including the bid stations.

Police accidental they are pursuing leads, including images of 1 oregon 2 individuals connected information cameras and imaginable cellphone conversations.