Key facts
- Greek police arrested two people over a 2010 arson attack that killed three bank workers.
- The 2010 attack occurred during a general strike protesting budget cuts.
- Masked youths threw petrol bombs at a Marfin bank branch in Athens, killing three workers.
- Greek counter-terrorism police recently arrested three people for firebombings targeting ruling party politicians.
- One of the recent attacks killed a woman, the mother of a former political candidate.
Greek police have arrested two individuals in connection with a 2010 arson attack that resulted in the deaths of three workers trapped inside a bank building in Athens. The incident occurred on May 5, 2010, during a large-scale general strike protesting budget cuts at the onset of Greece's debt crisis. Masked assailants threw petrol bombs at a Marfin bank branch, leading to the deaths of one man and two women, one of whom was pregnant, due to smoke inhalation. The arrests followed a review of evidence and photographs from the day of the attack and other protests. Separately, Greek counter-terrorism police arrested three people in connection with recent firebombings targeting the homes and vehicles of ruling New Democracy party politicians in Thessaloniki and Crete. These dawn attacks on July 1 used homemade gas canister explosives and killed the mother of former party candidate Afroditi Nestora, who was injured along with her father and two others.