The physical integrity of students, police officers and passing citizens would be put in immediate danger by the explosive device that had been placed on Kokkinopoulou Street, near the MAT headquartersas indicated in a statement by the Police Headquarters.

“Today at 12:29, the Attica Immediate Action Center was informed by telephone by the Editors’ Newspaper that they received a recorded message which reported the activation of a bomb in a camp near the headquarters of the MAT, which was going to explode in 45 minutes,” reports the announcement by the Greek Police about the bomb on Kokkinopoulou Street.

“Strong police forces immediately rushed to the scene, where it was found in a spot with trees n presence of an explosive device and the area was cordoned off in timeas in the event of an explosion the physical integrity of students from the adjacent university facilities, police officers and passing citizens would be threatened.

Police officers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Department carried out the process of neutralizing the explosive devicewhich has been sent to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for further investigation.

A preliminary investigation is being carried out by the Anti-Terrorist Service (D.A.E.B.)”.