The Abbot of the Old Brotherhood of IM Esfigmenos of Mount Athos was called upon to explain to the Thessaloniki investigator, accused of being an explosionist moral, following a Molotov allegation. He was then released without being restricted.

The case, according to the indictment, concerns the relative complaint of throwing Molotov, November 2022, in a house where he resides lawyerin Thessaloniki, while it appears to be part of the many years of dispute between the two brothers of Esfigmeno.

As natural perpetrators are accused two women associated spiritually with the abbot (He had previously been convicted of another Molotov episode in Athos). The defendants apologized in the same day in the same investigator and released.

All were charged with categories, in rank of felonon the basis of the removal of privacy of communications telephone.

Both the abbot and his two co -defendants, denied the categoriesstressing that their involvement in the case is nowhere to be seen. They are alleged to have spoken of “approaches” on the side of the new Brotherhood.

It is recalled that the New Brotherhood of Monks was formed, by decision of the Holy Community of Mount Athos in 2005, and since then considered legalbut the old refuses to deliver the monastery and delegationresulting in occasional notes at times tensions and episodes.