By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Printed: 15 Apr 2025 • 23:04
• 3 minutes learn
Dozens of main information shops – together with Reuters, AP, DW, and Al Jazeera – reported {that a} new Greek “extremist” group claimed accountability for the April 11 victimless practice firm bombing.
Nonetheless, one vital drawback with their protection is that the Revolutionary Class Self-Protection by no means claimed an assault. Reuters, AP, DW, ABC Information, and Sky Information, amongst dozens of different respected information media shops, based mostly their reporting on the political assertion the extremist group launched through the Athens Indymedia website.
The one point out of the assault is within the headline, which was extremely doubtless written by the leftist-anarchist information outlet and never by the group itself. EWN’s reasoning behind this assertion is that all through the 5,000 phrases after the headline, the group by no means mentions the assault nor the date of the blast close to the Hellenic Practice firm, which, nonetheless, they blame for the tragic railway accident that left 57 lifeless.
As a substitute, the group mentions large protests they participated in and might need even helped manage: two massive rallies that passed off on January 26, 2025, and February 28, 2025.
Huge protests, not bomb assaults
“On January 26, 2025 and February 28, 2025 respectively, a whole lot of hundreds of individuals demonstrated in opposition to the federal government of murderous anti-worker restructuring and Hellenic Practice, a subsidiary of the Italian monopoly Ferrovie Dello Stato, which bears major accountability for the homicide of 57 of our fellow residents in Tempe on February 28, 2023,” the group’s textual content reads.
On January 26, hundreds poured into the streets of Athens demanding justice over the nation’s worst practice crash, involving a head-on collision of a freight practice and a passenger practice. The demonstrations have been largely peaceable.
Additionally they stated the violent protests of February 28, 2025, which did turn out to be confrontational with riot police firing volleys of tear fuel, stun grenades, and water cannons at protestors hurling gasoline bombs and smashed-up paving stones in Athens.
These protests have been additionally in opposition to the conservative authorities’s perceived lack of accountability within the wake of the practice catastrophe. Nonetheless, nobody was injured. Police detained over 120 individuals. And the Revolutionary Class Self-Protection says of their assertion the protests and clashes with police have been additionally an illustration in opposition to the “American-Sionist genocidal struggle in Palestine.”
Cowards should not confrontational, or are they?
The group states they’re a “revolutionary motion” needing mass mobilisation and “armed confrontation.” A blast close to a practice firm isn’t confrontational; it’s extra of an act of cowardice, which does jibe with their rhetoric
Most media shops, apart from AP, declare Greek police are investigating the extremist group, however that can also be extremely doubtless false, as an in-depth EWN investigation discovered no affirmation that it was true.
DW, Al Jazeera, and Reuters, amongst others, additionally falsely reported that the group had additionally stated they have been behind the 2024 assault on the Labour Ministry. Nonetheless, the group by no means mentions 2024 or the ministry.
No affirmation from Greek police
Reuters ends their article saying “the group stated it devoted each assaults to Palestinians within the Gaza struggle.” The textual content truly says, “We dedicate these two actions to the Palestinian individuals and their heroic resistance.” The 2 actions are clearly the 2 protests earlier this 12 months the group mentions.
The extremist group finalises their assertion saying each demonstrations have been additionally in solidarity with the struggles of the individuals of Palestine, significantly these from Gaza.
Additionally they reported that the Greek anti-terrorism police have been trying right into a beforehand unknown extremist group, a declare Euro Weekly Information investigated in depth however discovered nothing about. Reuters additionally reported that an anti-terrorism unit had investigated a beforehand unknown guerrilla group.
In response to an April 13 AP report, police are following leads, together with photos of 1 or two people on safety cameras and potential cellphone conversations. After emails to the Greek police and scouring their web site, press workplace portal and prime Greek media shops, Euro Weekly Information was unable to substantiate AP’s declare.
Nonetheless, an hour after the bomb blast of April 11, the Greek police wrote on X that the Directorate for Combating Particular Violent Crimes was finishing up a preliminary investigation.
