“Kalimera”, the press representative of EL, spoke on Saturday morning to SKAI and on the show about the anti-terrorist investigations and about the information available to the authorities so far after the explosion of the improvised explosive device in an apartment in Ampelokipi. .AS, Constantia Dimoglidou.

As EL.AS said, it is currently looking for information on which people had access to the apartment. As she said, they are trying to determine if it is a new group that was active in the area and was preparing an attack.

“Everything shows that a man was standing on top of a makeshift mechanism. Something went wrong and led to the very powerful explosion,” said Mrs. Dimoglidou.

At the same time, the press representative of EL.AS said that investigations are being carried out so that the anti-terrorist people can understand where the mechanism could be placed. However, as he clarified it is too early to talk about who the possible target was.

“We are waiting for the results from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to see what was used in this device, if there are any remains” said Mrs. Dimoglidou.

Relatively with when the mechanism would be activated argued that they usually do not hold these objects for long in their hands either to avoid mistake or detection. “It wouldn’t stay in their hands for long” he said.

Regarding the injured woman, he said that she is not yet able to speak. As for the man who was dismembered, they are examining with DNA to find out if he belonged to the area of ​​anti-authoritarians.

Possible targets

However, already, with recordings from cameras on the streets, the police are examining as a very possible scenario that their target was the Israeli embassy, ​​since there is some evidence that leads to the conclusion that they made routes on foot to the embassy.

According to police sources, the particular apartment was allegedly a stopover, but also an escape point, in the event of an attack being prepared by its residents, the target of which is very likely to be in the wider area.

It is noted that very close to the apartment that was blown up, the US embassy and GADA are still located.