Greek ex-premier Lucas Papademos wounded in Athens bombing
Greek ex-premier Lucas Papademos wounded in Athens bombing
L ucas Papademos, the Greek former prime minister, was hurt on Thursday when an explosive device went off inwards his car in Athens, state agencies said.
State news agency ANA said Mr Papademos was undergoing surgery for abdominal and gam injuries at an Athens hospital.
State TV ERT earlier reported that he also had trouble breathing, but his life was not in danger.
Two of his guards were lightly hurt, ERT said.
“We are shocked. I wish to condemn this heinous act,” Nikos Pappas, the media minister, told the station.
E RT said Mr Papademos, prime minister from two thousand eleven to 2012, was wounded by a letter bomb as he read his post in the back of the car.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who is attending a Nato summit in Brussels, has been informed of the incident, ANA said.
A police source said a number of people had been hurt but could not say if Mr Papademos himself was in the car at the time of the blast.
Mr Papademos, Sixty-nine, a former Bank of Greece governor, was in an armoured Mercedes provided by the bank, which contained the blast and likely aggravated his injuries, ERT said.
H e headed an interim coalition government at the height of Greece’s fiscal crisis that in two thousand twelve negotiated a massive write-down of the country’s privately held debt.
H e served as prime minister from November two thousand eleven to May two thousand twelve after the resignation of George Papandreou’s socialist government, steering a batch of harsh austerity measures through parliament before stepping down for elections to be held.
An economist by training, Mr Papademos was Bank of Greece governor from one thousand nine hundred ninety four to 2002, and European Central Bank governor vice president from two thousand two to 2010.
There was no instant claim of responsibility for the blast.
In March, Greek anarchist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei mailed a letter bomb that injured a secretary at the International Monetary Fund in Paris.
The Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei had earlier claimed responsibility for an explosive device, also sent from Greece, that was discovered by the police at the offices of Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German finance minister.
To make it more likely that the letter bombs would be opened, the attackers used the names of Greek politicians as alleged senders.
The group, which is considered a terror organisation by Washington, sent letter bombs to foreign embassies in Greece and to European leaders in 2010.
Greek ex-premier Lucas Papademos wounded in Athens bombing
Greek ex-premier Lucas Papademos wounded in Athens bombing
L ucas Papademos, the Greek former prime minister, was hurt on Thursday when an explosive device went off inwards his car in Athens, state agencies said.
State news agency ANA said Mr Papademos was undergoing surgery for abdominal and gam injuries at an Athens hospital.
State TV ERT earlier reported that he also had trouble breathing, but his life was not in danger.
Two of his guards were lightly hurt, ERT said.
“We are shocked. I wish to condemn this heinous act,” Nikos Pappas, the media minister, told the station.
E RT said Mr Papademos, prime minister from two thousand eleven to 2012, was wounded by a letter bomb as he read his post in the back of the car.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who is attending a Nato summit in Brussels, has been informed of the incident, ANA said.
A police source said a number of people had been hurt but could not say if Mr Papademos himself was in the car at the time of the blast.
Mr Papademos, Sixty-nine, a former Bank of Greece governor, was in an armoured Mercedes provided by the bank, which contained the blast and likely aggravated his injuries, ERT said.
H e headed an interim coalition government at the height of Greece’s fiscal crisis that in two thousand twelve negotiated a massive write-down of the country’s privately held debt.
H e served as prime minister from November two thousand eleven to May two thousand twelve after the resignation of George Papandreou’s socialist government, steering a batch of rough austerity measures through parliament before stepping down for elections to be held.
An economist by training, Mr Papademos was Bank of Greece governor from one thousand nine hundred ninety four to 2002, and European Central Bank governor vice president from two thousand two to 2010.
There was no instant claim of responsibility for the blast.
In March, Greek anarchist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei mailed a letter bomb that injured a secretary at the International Monetary Fund in Paris.
The Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei had earlier claimed responsibility for an explosive device, also sent from Greece, that was discovered by the police at the offices of Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German finance minister.
To make it more likely that the letter bombs would be opened, the attackers used the names of Greek politicians as alleged senders.
The group, which is considered a terror organisation by Washington, sent letter bombs to foreign embassies in Greece and to European leaders in 2010.