Greek Police Arrest Suspect in Letter Bomb Attacks<br />Counterterrorism officers stopped the suspect while leaving an apartment block near central Athens on Saturday, while carrying several bags containing two pistols, 300 bullet cartridges, several detonators, cables, timers, gunpowder<br />and eight fake identity cards, a police statement said.<br />Mr. Papademos, a 70-year-old economist who was prime minister for six months from late 2011 to early 2012 during the height<br />of Greece’s debt crisis, was seriously hurt when a parcel bomb exploded in his hands as he opened it in his car in Athens.<br />An investigating magistrate had issued a warrant for the suspect’s arrest in connection with the letter bombs sent to "various recipients in European Union countries" in March<br />and another device targeting Mr. Papademos in May, according to the statement.<br />He is also suspected of sending several other devices to representatives of Greece’s international creditors, including to Wolfgang Schaeuble, then Germany’s finance minister;<br />and to the Paris offices of the International Monetary Fund.<br />28, 2017<br />ATHENS — The police in Greece on Saturday arrested a 29-year-old man who is suspected of being involved in a bomb plot<br />that left one of the country’s former prime ministers seriously injured.
