The two arrested suspects who are believed to have been the perpetrators of the attack on the Yiannos bookshop and the Marfin Bank branch in 2010, which killed three people and threatened the lives of another 24, are members of the core group of anti-government organizations.
Three years after the fatal attack the Greek authorities have identified the perpetrators whom a judgement will hold accountable.
According to the judgement published by Realnews newspaper, one of the persons involved in the arson of the bank was Theodoros Sipsas. He will be charged with the following crimes: "murder, committed in a calm mental state and under conditions of complicity and recidivism, bombing attack, which caused death and threatened people and other people’s property, making and possessing explosive mechanisms and unprovoked destruction of other people’s property by an explosion carried out by a masked person."
Pavlos Andreev is accused as the perpetrator of the attack on the Yiannos bookshop and is charged with the following offences: "assassination attempt carried out in a calm mental state, explosion that could have jeopardized other people’s lives, making and possessing explosive mechanisms and unprovoked destruction of other people’s property by an explosion carried out by a masked person."
How the attack against the Marfin Bank branch was carried out
Page 29 of the judgement states that perpetrator Theodoros Sipsas had acted in complicity with two other persons with the intention of causing death. "He acted in a calm mental state, following a decision to act with two other accomplices and being aware of the fact that there were people in the two-storey building at 23, Stadiou Street in Athens. One of the unknown perpetrators smashed the glass windows of the building and the other one sprayed inside some flammable liquid. Then Theodoros Sipsas threw inside the building a lit Molotov bomb which caused an explosion and a subsequent fire, as well as the death of Angeliki Papathanasiou, Paraskevi Zoulia and Epaminondas Tsakalis."
According to the judges, the accused along with his accomplices had intended to kill not only the three abovementioned persons but also "all who were in the two-storey building at that time", i.e. 24 people. His failure in doing so was not due to his will but to external circumstances.
The judges state that the attacks had been planned systematically and that a whole group, armed with sticks, batons and hammers, had implemented the plan. The members of the gang had been wearing backpacks, and their faces had been masked. Shortly before the attack, the group had met on Stadiou Street to coordinate its actions.
The group had then split into two parts, one involving four perpetrators, who had attacked the Yiannos bookshop, and the other three perpetrators, who had headed to the Marfin Bank branch. The group had involved a fair-haired woman too, as stated in the judgement.
How the attack against the Yiannos bookshop was carried out
According to the judges, one of the members of the group which had headed to the Yiannos bookshop had smashed its windows with a hammer whereas the remaining three had thrown inside Molotov bombs, which they had made on the spot.
As stated in the judgement, one of the members of the group had called out, "I will burn you alive," throwing a makeshift bomb inside the bookshop at the same time. After that, he had poured some petrol on a man whose name the judges know. All this had been happening while the people had been trying to convince him not to throw the bomb because it would have endangered people’s lives.
Similar is the description of the attack on the Marfin Bank branch which killed one man and two women, one of whom was pregnant.
Members of the core group of an anti-government organization were the perpetrators
The judgement states that the two perpetrators are members of the core group of an anti-government organization. The police had summoned them dozens of times during riots in the centre of Athens and had recorded their names in the summary of the anti-terrorism service since they had had close ties with three persons who had been subsequently arrested for involvement in the terrorist organization "Fire Nuclei".
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