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This morning a bomb was detonated in front of the Athens stock exchange building. One woman has mild injuries and the windows of the stock exchange are broken. Almost at the same time a bomb exploded in front of the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace in Thessaloniki. Fortunately there are no injuries. According to the Greek anti-terrorism services, the two explosions were organized simultaneously, even though the first one has the signature of the Revolutionary Fight and the second one of Conspiracy of the Fiery Nuclei - Fraction of the Nihilists. Revolutionary Fight is the author of the grenade gun shooting of the US embassy in January 2007. The same organization parked a van full of TNT in front of City Bank in the northern suburb Kifissia - the police managed to deactivate it. On the other hand, the Nihilists undertook the responsibility for a bomb placed in front of the home of the former deputy minister of public order Panayotis Hinofotis.

For both explosions the terrorists have warned in advance by making phone calls to Eleftherotypia newspaper and ALTER TV. In Athens the police closed off the area around the stock exchange, before the bomb exploded but it couldn't deactivate it. The handmade bomb was placed in a white van, stolen two days ago from Zographou suburb. The explosion mildly injured a woman, working in a car store nearby and broke the windows of the stock exchange. Despite the incident, the president of the financial institution Spiros Kapralos decided that the stock exchange will work normally today. The exchange is in the most central part of the Greek capital and closing off the region caused a lot of traffic.

Also this morning, with a difference of 30 minutes, a bomb exploded in Thessaloniki in front of the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace. Fortunately there are only material damages.