Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni
Two explosive units focused automobiles belonging to the Italian embassy in Greece on Friday, one in every of which went off inflicting no accidents, Greek police mentioned.
There was no fast declare of duty and officers mentioned they had been investigating.
A do-it-yourself bomb exploded at round 4:00 am (0200 GMT), damaging a car parked on the residence of an embassy officer in an Athens suburb, police mentioned.
The different machine, positioned close to a second diplomatic car, didn’t go off.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed “deep concern” at what she referred to as an “attack… probably of anarchist origin”.
The far-right chief despatched her “personal thoughts and those of the Italian government to the first counsellor of the Italian embassy in Athens, Susanna Schlein”.
Meloni added she was following the case “with the utmost attention” and thru Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani who was in Athens for talks on Friday.
The Greek overseas ministry “strongly condemned the attack” and mentioned such “unacceptable” acts “would not disrupt… the excellent relations and ties of long-standing friendship between Greece and its partner and ally Italy”.
Crude, do-it-yourself units, which trigger injury however not often accidents, are generally used towards political or diplomatic targets, banks or overseas firms in Greece.
Police usually blame teams on the acute left or anarchists.