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Members of the Greek police’s counter-terrorism unit investigate the area outside the Hellenic Train offices in central Athens after a bombing, April 11, 2025
(JNS) — A far-left Greek terrorist organization paid tribute to the Palestinians’ “heroic resistance” as it claimed responsibility for two bombings in central Athens, the Associated Press agency reported on Sunday.
“We dedicate these two actions to the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance,” Revolutionary Class Struggle stated in a lengthy Greek-language manifesto posted to the Indymedia website, taking responsibility for a bomb that exploded near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s railway services operator, on Friday, as well as the planting of a another IED near the Labor Ministry on Feb. 3, 2024.
The statement accused Athens of playing an active role in what it denounced as “the American-Zionist genocidal war in Palestine.”
The two bombings did not lead to any injuries, causing only material damage. In both instances, the terrorists warned of the impending blasts by informing local media some 40 minutes before the attack.
Attacks on government institutions and banks have been recurrent in the Hellenic Republic for many years and are generally attributed to local extreme-left-wing and anarchist terrorist organizations.
Revolutionary Class Struggle’s manifesto slammed the government’s response to mass protests that erupted earlier this year over a railway disaster in which 57 people were killed and dozens more injured.
“What the government and its bosses — both domestic and foreign — attempted to do since Jan. 26, 2025, and of course, long before that, was to impose a fascist-style regime on the country,” the terrorist group stated. “A regime that they had been carefully laying the foundations for over the years through specific actions: repressive and deadly management of the pandemic, wiretapping, employer and state terrorism, turning the country into a vast American military base [in] alliance with Israel.”
In November, the Israeli Foreign Ministry warned its citizens in Greece to briefly stay away from the embassy in Athens and avoid the public display of Israeli and Jewish symbols, among other security measures, ahead of extreme-left and pro-Palestinian protests that turned violent.
The rallies were called under the pretext of the commemoration of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising, which was a massive student demonstration against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
Two Israelis were stabbed in mid-February on Ermou Street, an upscale shopping avenue that runs through central Athens. One of the attackers, originally from Gaza, was apprehended while the other fled the scene.
The arrested suspect “had participated in the past in pro-Palestinian demonstrations,” the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said at the time.
The Israeli National Security Council has not raised its travel warning for Greece, which remains at level two, or “Potential Threat,” out of four. Israelis in the country are advised to “exercise increased precaution.”
