Police believe a car bomb explosion outside the Bank of Greece on Thursday might have been planned by two wanted terrorists – the leader of Revolutionary Struggle Nikos Maziotis and November 17 convict Christodoulos Xeros.
Maziotis’s involvement was suspected from the beginning while the possible involvement of Xeros is being examined partly due to the fact that the car used in the blast was Japanese – a Nissan Sunny the type the group used before being broken up 10 years ago. A police source described the choice of vehicle as “a return to the past” and “reminiscent of an old generation of terrorists’ methodology.”
Revolutionary Struggle has claimed responsibility for several car bomb hits including at the headquarters of Citibank in Kifissia, northern Athens, in February 2009 and at the Athens Stock Exchange in September of that year. N17 claimed several hits using car bombs in 1980s and 1990s.
The two suspects each have a one million euro bounty on them for information leading to their capture.
In a letter posted on an anarchist website recently Maziotis denied reports of a cooperation with Xeros.
Authorities said the device may have been planted by November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros, who walked away from a prison furlough in January, and Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis, who vanished in July 2012 after being released from detention because he hadn’t been tried.
Xeros was given a holiday vacation despite serving six life sentences for his role in six murders, including five people over the years attached to the U.S. Embassy in Athens.
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