Gov't Had Signs Of Possible Terror Attack Since 2012

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A week after unidentified attackers opened fire on the headquarters of Greece’s governing New Democracy party with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said that authorities had indications since November that domestic guerrillas were preparing to strike.

“We were not taken by surprise,” Dendias said at the weekend before a bomb attack on The Mall in Maroussi injured two people on Sunday morning, adding that forensic experts were investigating key evidence found at the site of the New Democracy assault.

In an interview with Kathimerini, Dendias describes the recent wave of attacks on journalists and on ND's offices as “isolated incidents,” while defending ongoing police raids on central Athens squats as a bid to “safeguard legality in the public sphere.”

On Monday morning, bomb experts were also called to Athens’ main court complex after an anonymous caller warned that a bomb had been placed there. The buildings were evacuated but authorities were unable to find a device. The caller had given a specific time for the blast but no explosion occurred.