Fears of political backlash
Information speaks of potential Kurdish residents planning an attack on Greek soil. As such, a meeting between the Secretary of Citizen Protection, the Head of National Intelligence and the Director of the Counter-Terrorism Unit is taking place since this afternoon.
Investigations have been undertaken by the CTU, in an effort to determine who and why was hiding their arsenal in a specially hidden cache. The first evidence points to Kurdish armed groups. This case is complicated further by the element of a fatally injured man, who has been identified as a 32 year-old Kurd, of Turkish nationality, suspected of belonging to the organization DHKP-C.
The apartment was rented by two other Kurds who had been implicated with a Turkish couple with a terrorist agenda, while the woman had a pending German arrest warrant.
During the investigation, a hidden cache within the apartment’s kitchen revealed:
-An anti-tank weapon, armed with a projectile (M80 64mm)
-An AK74 Sub-machine gun
-An AK assault rifle
-Two anti-personnel mines
-One Scorpion SMG
-One automatic rifle
-Two cases of 600 rounds of various calibers
-14 grenade detonators
-Five kilos of unknown substance
-Four assault and nine defensive grenades, without detonators
-Also found in the apartment were pieces of an exploded grenade, a grenade without a detonator and other items.
The case is classified as top national priority by Police officials since it concerns the actions of a foreign organization on Greek soil, and as such Secretary of Citizen Protection Christos Papoutsis has been meeting with the heads of the National Intelligence Agency and the Counter-Terrorism Unit since this afternoon.
The possibility that Turkey might requests explanations makes the Greek side cautious and careful in handling the affair so that there is no further backlash between the two countries’ relations at this time.
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