Microsoft's office in Athens attacked
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June 28, 2012, Thursday
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ASSAILANTS attacked Microsoft's office in Athens yesterday, driving a van through the front door and setting off an incendiary device that burned the building's entrance, police said.
There were no injuries in the pre-dawn attack on the US company's headquarters in the Greek capital, located in the Maroussi suburb north of the city center. There was no immediate claim of responsibility and no warning call had been made before the attack.
Police said initial information showed three people had been inside the van. The hooded assailants forced the building's two security guards out at gunpoint before reversing the van into the front entrance, smashing the door.
They then triggered an incendiary device inside the van that police said appeared to have consisted of camping gas canisters and several containers of gasoline.
Police said accomplices were waiting to help them flee the scene in various directions, probably using motorbikes. The van used had been stolen from a nearby northern suburb about 40 days ago.
Microsoft spokeswoman Lia Komninou said the firm had got no warning or threat before the attack or at any other time. The firm, which has been in Greece for 20 years and employs 125 people, has been in that building since 2004.
Small armed anarchist or domestic terrorist groups have set off attacks in Greece for decades. They usually target official buildings, banks or symbols of state power with small bombs or incendiary devices and rarely cause injuries.
There were no injuries in the pre-dawn attack on the US company's headquarters in the Greek capital, located in the Maroussi suburb north of the city center. There was no immediate claim of responsibility and no warning call had been made before the attack.
Police said initial information showed three people had been inside the van. The hooded assailants forced the building's two security guards out at gunpoint before reversing the van into the front entrance, smashing the door.
They then triggered an incendiary device inside the van that police said appeared to have consisted of camping gas canisters and several containers of gasoline.
Police said accomplices were waiting to help them flee the scene in various directions, probably using motorbikes. The van used had been stolen from a nearby northern suburb about 40 days ago.
Microsoft spokeswoman Lia Komninou said the firm had got no warning or threat before the attack or at any other time. The firm, which has been in Greece for 20 years and employs 125 people, has been in that building since 2004.
Small armed anarchist or domestic terrorist groups have set off attacks in Greece for decades. They usually target official buildings, banks or symbols of state power with small bombs or incendiary devices and rarely cause injuries.
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