Α 36-year-old felon serving time in a central Greek prison for armed robberies is allegedly the “mastermind” of what authorities charge is a coterie of bomb-planting suspects, including two army ordnance specialists.
According to a report on the prime-time newscast of Mega TV on Friday, the convict ordered explosive devices planted outside targets or even sent to perspective victims via “mail bombs”, including one to a top judge in Thessaloniki whom he considered responsible for his sentencing. The two “bomb-makers” are identified as currently serving members of the military.
The “letter bomb” was intercepted before reaching its target.
Threats made from within the Domokos prison against judges and prosecutors were cited in a voluminous indictment unveiled this week against a total of 10 suspects – four incarcerated inmates, including the main suspect, along with six individuals arrested over the past week.
The gang’s attacks, moreover, were presented as actions by a self-styled anti-state group in order to resemble urban terrorism. One incident involved the lobbing of a hand grenade against a car owned by a correctional officer.
Additionally, the Mega TV report has the main suspect paying his associates 5,000 euros for every attack.
After his arrest in 2021 for a string of armed robberies, the accused ringleader claimed he was an “anarchist terrorist”. One conviction stemmed from an armed robbery of a bank branch in the central Athens district of Petralona in August 2021, the same bank that was damaged in a bomb blast late last January.
At the time, an anonymous caller claimed that the hereunto unknown group “Revenge Conspiracy” was behind the attack, which was in solidarity to the convicted armed robber, whose appeal was set for a hearing a few days later.
