Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire Responsible For Lacing Coca Cola Products With Acid in Greece

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Authorities suspect that the jailed members of the urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, are behind a recent plot to sabotage Coca-Cola Light and Nestea products in Greece. This is what several officials told Kathimerini at the weekend, and even compared this unprecedented threat to the "Phoenix" project which was apparently implemented earlier this year in June following an attack against the director of Korydallo prison Mary Stefi.

According to reports in the Greek press, the go-ahead for the plan, dubbed “Green Nemesis,” came from inside the maximum-security Korydallos Prison in central Athens.

The Coca-Cola company, which makes both beverages in Greece, said last Thursday that it was planning to remove the 500 ml bottles of the soft drinks from stores in both Athens and Thessaloniki after FAI/IRF, an urban guerrilla group that has in the past signed joint proclamations with Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, threatened to tamper with the beverages by injecting hydrochloric acid into them.

FAI/IRF said that it was an act of solidarity with members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire group and two people being held in Spain on suspicion of planting explosive devices.

The threat to the soft drinks company was actually announced last Monday on zougla.gr as well as in the Espresso newspaper, while the terrorists also deemed it necessary to send a sample soda contaminated with hydrochloric acid. (That indeed is scary.)

In a separate report on defencenet we read that a similar incident (and/or sabotage on consumer products) was made in the UK in September 2011. In this case, the aim was to discredit the Reckitt Benckiser pharmaceutical company, and according to reports at the time many painkillers (or Nurofen drugs) were contaminated with the anti psychotic pill Seroquel XL. (In other words, one big mess!).