New armed extremist group claims accountability for bombing close to rail firm headquarters | EUROtoday

A brand new extremist group claimed accountability Sunday for a bomb that exploded close to the workplaces of Hellenic Train, Greece’s primary railway companies operator and the planting of one other close to the Labor Ministry in early February.

The explosion Friday night resulted in restricted injury and no accidents. The perpetrators had forewarned of the explosion by calling two media organizations about 40 minutes earlier than it occurred.

In a prolonged posting on the web site Athens.indymedia.org on Sunday, the perpetrators, who styled themselves the Revolutionary Class Struggle, defined the explanations for his or her motion, which they mentioned was a part of an armed wrestle towards the state.

Revolutionary Class Struggle devoted the bombings to “the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance” and paid tribute to Kyriakos Xymitiris, a person who was killed final yr when the explosive machine he was assembling exploded in a central Athens condo.

The explosion additionally got here throughout widespread public anger over a 2023 railway catastrophe, Greece’s worst, wherein 57 individuals have been killed and dozens extra injured when a freight prepare and a passenger prepare heading in reverse instructions have been by chance placed on the identical observe.

The lethal accident uncovered extreme deficiencies in Greece’s railway system, together with in security methods, and has triggered mass protests led by kinfolk of the victims towards the nation’s conservative authorities on the event of the accident’s second anniversary.

In its assertion, which serves as a form of manifesto, Revolutionary Class Struggle connects the accident with what it referred to as the “murders” of the proletariat within the type of office accidents, by capitalists.

Greece has an extended historical past of politically motivated violence relationship again to the Seventies, with home extremist teams finishing up small-scale bombings that often trigger injury however not often result in accidents.

While the teams most energetic within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties have been dismantled, new smaller teams have emerged. Authorities are calling them a brand new era of home extremists.

“With the blood not yet dry, they attributed the (train) accident to human error and the ‘chronic deficiencies of the Greek state,’ in effect demanding even more freedom of movement for capital, more privatizations and new attacks on any remaining state-owned infrastructure,” the extremist group mentioned.

Hellenic Train, the operator of passenger and cargo prepare companies, was as soon as a subsidiary of state-owned Hellenic Railways. It was cut up and bought to Italy’s Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane in 2017. Hellenic Railways retains possession and accountability for the upkeep of the rail infrastructure, together with the prepare stations.

Police say they’re following leads, together with photos of 1 or two people on safety cameras and potential cellphone conversations.