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Saudi Embassy cars were targeted in arson attacks on April 14 and April 15 in Athens, Greece. Two separate groups — “Subversive Cell” and “Anti-State Justice” (ASJ) — have already claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Attacks on property (especially that belonging to foreigners) are fairly common in Athens — but there are too many similarities between these two attacks to say, as the spokesman for the Greek Embassy in Riyadh did, that they are disconnected and were not targeting Saudi Arabia. The recent increased presence of Saudis in Greece as tourists and businessmen could be sparking protest from groups known to oppose globalization and to attack foreigners.
Both attacks occurred after midnight but before dawn in neighborhoods northeast of central Athens, several miles from the Saudi Embassy. The targets were cars belonging to the embassy; the cars bore green diplomatic plates, but apparently there were no overt indications that the cars were Saudi. Cooking gas canisters were set under the cars and used as explosive incendiary devices — a technique the ASJ anarchist group has used before. Both cars were destroyed by fire, but nobody was injured in either of the attacks.
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