A public prosecutor has brought criminal charges on five felony counts, including intentional homicide, both completed and attempted, as well as membership in a terrorist organization, against three people arrested in connection with a recent arson attack on the Thessaloniki family home of Afroditi Nestora, a New Democracy official and former parliamentary candidate.
The three suspects appeared before a public prosecutor on Saturday over the July 1 arson attack on Nestora’s family home, which killed her 75-year-old mother, Vagia Nestora, and injured her father and two other residents of the apartment building.
The suspects are two men, aged 29 and 24, and a 26-year-old woman.
According to Greece’s Counterterrorism Unit, investigative findings and surveillance footage led to the identification of the 29-year-old man and the 26-year-old woman as the alleged perpetrators of the fatal attack. The 24-year-old man is accused of allowing the pair to use his home as a base of operations and hideout.
Authorities deployed a heavy police presence in and around the Thessaloniki courthouse, where members of the anarchist movement gathered following an online call for a demonstration.
