The entrance to the apartment building where former parliamentary candidate for New Democracy, Afroditi Nestora’s car was located, in which unknown attackers placed an incendiary device. The explosion caused a fire that spread to other vehicles. [INTIME NEWS]
Counterterrorism police arrested three people in connection with an arson attack on the home of Afroditi Nestora – a New Democracy official and former parliamentary candidate – in Thessaloniki on July 1 that resulted in the death of her 75-year-old mother, Vagia Nestora.
Authorities said a 29-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman are accused of carrying out the attack. Police allege they placed and activated an incendiary device that sparked the fire leading to the woman’s fatal injuries. A third suspect, a man aged 24, is accused of harboring criminals by providing an apartment where the pair allegedly hid before and after the attack.
The woman was located in Hania, Crete, where she had traveled on vacation, while the two men were arrested in Thessaloniki in northern Greece. Police accelerated the operation because the 24-year-old was reportedly preparing to travel to Nafplio.
Investigators linked the suspects only to the attack on Nestora’s home, not to two earlier arson attacks carried out the same night against the homes of other New Democracy political figures. A separate group is believed to have been responsible for those incidents.
