A Greek judge charged two men with terrorism Thursday as Athens police announced they had dealt with a parcel bomb delivered to the French embassy.Kinda poor timing, starting their bomb spree at the same time al-Qaeda started theirs.
Police are searching for five suspects believed to be connected with the series of parcel bombs.
| Did the two arrested have cell phones or computers to be checked? Then it shouldn't be long until the idiots are found. This kind of thing isn't as amusing as it used to be. |
A court official told reporters that 22-year-old chemistry student Panayotis Argyrou and 24-year-old Gerassimos Tskalos refused to talk before the court, saying they did not recognize the procedure.
| How very clever of them. |
Earlier on Thursday, police set off a controlled explosion to destroy a suspected parcel bomb delivered to the French embassy. It was the 14th such package to come from Greece addressed to international targets this week.
On Monday and Tuesday, several foreign embassies in Athens received suspicious packages. Most of the packages were discovered before exploding either at the embassies or in delivery centers, but packages did detonate at the Swiss and Russian embassies. No one was injured by the explosions.
| That does seem more like Greek leftwing dilettante idiots, rather than murderously serious jihadis, who are limited by lack of skill, access to raw materials, and alert intelligence agencies rather than anything remotely resembling scruples. |
Earlier in the week, Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas said all signs pointed to suspects within Greece. "All evidence show this is a clear domestic case, with no connection with international terrorism," he said. "The evidence so far shows we are dealing with extreme left, anarchist groups."