ATHENS: Greek police said a far-left group was likely responsible for a night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens that saw the building sprayed with gunfire but no one hurt.
Two Kalashnikov assault rifles used in the attack had been used in a similar attack on the residence of the German ambassador last December by the People’s Fighter Group, a police source said.
A gunman riding on the back of motorcycle raked the embassy with at least 54 rounds from a Kalashnikov rifle, police said, as it passed the embassy, which sits on the corner of a busy road in the affluent northern suburbs of the Greek capital.
Television footage showed bullet holes on the side of the embassy building.
“There were two bursts of gunfire...they must have emptied an entire clip,” the attendant of a neighbouring petrol station told reporters. AFP
