Unknown assailants firebombed four cars belonging to foreign diplomats in Athens early yesterday but no one was injured, police said.
Cars belonging to staff of the embassies of Italy, Turkey and the Philippines were set ablaze by home-made gas canister devices shortly after midnight, a police official said.
The cars, two of them owned by Turkish embassy staff, were parked on Athens streets and had diplomatic license plates but no country markings. "We still have no specific suspects, nor can we attribute a motive. We are waiting for someone to claim responsibility and we are investigating the incident," the police official said.
Cars belonging to diplomats, businessmen and politicians have often been attacked by self-styled anarchists in Greece, and more than a dozen have been set on fire in the past year. The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the assault in a written statement yesterday and said, “a total of six vehicles belonging to the Turkish embassy have been attacked in the last one-and-half year.”
“Our expectation from the Greek officials is to arrest the assailants, to compensate for the damage and to provide all our personnel with life and property security,” it said. |