Extensive damage to houses and cars caused the strong explosion that occurred after 2 in the early morning at the entrance of an apartment building on Macedonian Fight, Sykies, Thessaloniki. An indication of the outbreak of the explosion is that in addition to the entrance of the apartment building where the explosive mechanism was installed significant material damage has also been caused in adjacent apartment buildings -broken entrances and doors and windows of apartments and businesses -as well as in cars parked.
The investigation into a strong explosion in the apartment building in Thessaloniki has been undertaken by the Organized Crime Directorate, also known as “Greek FBI” and has begun with the deposition of a prison official living in the apartment building and was said to have been the goal of the attack, as the explosive mechanism was located.
Residents describe with horror at the time of the explosion. 88 -year -old Sofia Hatzigeorgiou, who lives alone, as she said, got up and found that her home had become “summer”, as a huge hole opened in the midst of her mezzanine apartment with the apartment building where the bomb was placed.
One of the people who were injured when the mechanism exploded, returning from Hippocrates where he was stitched on his leg, described at the time of the explosion: “I was late from work, I was lying down to sleep. At 2.10 the explosion took place. All the windows fell on the bed while I was sleeping. They are everything broken, shutters, glass, the door in the kitchen, the front door. At the moment I have no door. The noise was very loud and because all the glazing fell on me, I went out to see what had happened. I didn’t imagine what had happened, I thought it was a gas explosion. It smelled a lot, it was a dummy, I didn’t see, nor did I realize that I hit. When I went out a female policeman came and put me in the ambulance, where they gave me first aid and took me to Hippocrates. “
Earlier there were reports of two slightly injured. These are people who lived in the area and when the explosion occurred, they went out of their house to see what was happening and injured on the legs of broken glasses.
The bomb seems to have been placed outside the elevator’s well
From the first analysis of the data gathered by the authorities it seems to be The bomb was placed outside the elevator’s well. Employees of the marking hours after the explosion remained on the spot, collecting data and fingerprints. Officers from the Organized Crime Department, who has undertaken the investigation, are looking for a video material and checking testimonies of locals, who can lead them to the perpetrators of the attack, whose target is believed to have been a correctional officer with a trade union. It is examined in this context if the employee had been recipients of threats lately.
Indeed, after the explosion, a police operation was held in the Prisons of Diavae where the correctional officer serves, without any help in the investigation.
From the Department of Explosive Mechanisms (TEEM), the explosive samples have been collected and indicative of the size of the explosion is that according to the First estimate were used at least three pounds of explosives. The wiring of the explosive mechanism seems to have been simple and the explosion with a common detonator was triggered.
At the site of the explosion was rushed by Thessaloniki MP Stratos Simopoulos, who, he said, maintains a friendly relationship with the penitentiary. “I came to support a friend, a partner, to the president of the Federation of Prisoners, with whom we have worked very much to promote significant institutional demands of the members of the Federation. It has my utmost support, because some weeks ago, I was attacked by the same joke – his own was much more severe. Public officials, who perform their duty without discounts, may be at the forefront of the threat of such terrorist and criminal acts. I absolutely believe that they are not falling in force »he said.
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