Posted on 05/03/2025 9:53:59 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
A woman has died in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki after a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands.
The 38-year-old woman was apparently carrying the bomb to place it outside a nearby bank at around 5am on Saturday, police said.
Several storefronts and vehicles were damaged by the explosion.
Police said the woman had a criminal record related to drugs and prostitution and had been involved in at least one robbery and thefts in the past.
The Greek police’s division for organised crime was investigating the incident while authorities were also looking into whether the woman might have ties to extreme leftist groups.
Greece has seen occasional bombings, as well as targeted killings, attributed to various organised crime groups.
The country also has a long history of politically motivated violence dating back to the 1970s, with domestic extremist groups carrying out small-scale bombings that usually cause some damage but rarely lead to injuries.
While the groups most active in the 1980s and 1990s, whose preferred targets tended to be politicians, foreign businesses and diplomats, have been dismantled, new small groups have emerged.
Last year, a man believed to have been trying to assemble a bomb was killed when the device he was making exploded in a central Athens apartment. A woman inside the apartment was severely injured. It was unclear what their intended target might have been.
The blast prompted minister of citizen protection Michalis Chrisochoidis to warn of an emerging new generation of domestic extremists.
In April, a new group calling itself Revolutionary Class Struggle claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded in central Athens near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway services operator, and the planting of another bomb near the Labour Ministry in early February.
The explosion near the train offices resulted in limited damage to the building and no injuries. It had been preceded by an anonymous call to local media 40 minutes before the blast warning about the device, leading police to evacuate and cordon off the area.
The group that claimed responsibility said the bombing was part of an armed struggle against the state.
The bombing at the train offices came shortly after the second anniversary of Greece’s worst railway disaster, in which 57 people were killed and dozens more injured when a freight train and a passenger train heading in opposite directions were accidentally put on the same track.
The deadly accident sparked widespread anger and exposed severe deficiencies in Greece’s railway system, including in safety systems. Some of the relatives of the victims led mass protests against the country’s conservative government on the occasion of the accident’s second anniversary.
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When your doctor or
your mechanic
says OOPS!.....
My first guess would be that it was a Turkish woman. The Greeks and Turks are fighting already.
LOL!
You win this thread!
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After the blast, how did they know it was a female?
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
With the exception of the property damage I liked the outcome of her last day on earth.
She died doing what she loved.
An Acme bomb?
I love stupid terrorist tricks.
Play stupid games....
I really don’t understand how the “play with a bomb” game became so popular! It never really ends well!
She didn’t use her hand lotion. Dang those rough hands.
Yep. Maybe the bomb tech set the time for 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes. Whatever happened, I don’t feel the slightest bit bad for her.
Maybe security cam footage, that’s the only thing I can guess.
So sad... Who cares??? Too bad it didn’t blow up her and her accomplices.
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