Overview
- The July 1 attacks in Thessaloniki targeted the homes and vehicles of three Nea Dimokratia politicians, using improvised devices made from butane gas cylinders that set garages and apartments on fire and left one person dead and four injured.
- Greek anti-terror police said they arrested three suspects in Thessaloniki and on Crete on July 10 and that searches of multiple premises are continuing as the investigation proceeds.
- Police described the devices as consistent with methods used by left-wing and anarchist groups in Greece and local reporting identified among the arrested a 26-year-old woman with a 2022 sentence for membership in an anarchist group and a 29-year-old man linked to Thessaloniki’s anarchist scene.
- Hours after those arrests, Athens police announced they had detained two people in connection with a separate 2010 bank arson that killed three employees while noting a third 2010 suspect remains sought.
- Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis condemned the attacks as a terrorist act, officials say prosecutions will follow, and investigators warn further raids and forensic work are planned as they build cases.