By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Printed: 15 Apr 2025 • 23:04
• 3 minutes learn
Dozens of main information retailers – together with Reuters, AP, DW, and Al Jazeera – reported {that a} new Greek “extremist” group claimed duty for the April 11 victimless prepare firm bombing.
Nevertheless, one important drawback with their protection is that the Revolutionary Class Self-Protection by no means claimed an assault. Reuters, AP, DW, ABC Information, and Sky Information, amongst dozens of different respected information media retailers, primarily based their reporting on the political assertion the extremist group launched by way of the Athens Indymedia web site.
The one point out of the assault is within the headline, which was extremely probably written by the leftist-anarchist information outlet and never by the group itself. EWN’s reasoning behind this assertion is that all through the 5,000 phrases after the headline, the group by no means mentions the assault nor the date of the blast close to the Hellenic Prepare firm, which, nevertheless, they blame for the tragic railway accident that left 57 lifeless.
As a substitute, the group mentions huge protests they participated in and may need even helped set up: two giant rallies that came about on January 26, 2025, and February 28, 2025.
Large protests, not bomb assaults
“On January 26, 2025 and February 28, 2025 respectively, tons of of hundreds of individuals demonstrated towards the federal government of murderous anti-worker restructuring and Hellenic Prepare, a subsidiary of the Italian monopoly Ferrovie Dello Stato, which bears major duty for the homicide of 57 of our fellow residents in Tempe on February 28, 2023,” the group’s textual content reads.
On January 26, hundreds poured into the streets of Athens demanding justice over the nation’s worst prepare crash, involving a head-on collision of a freight prepare and a passenger prepare. The demonstrations have been largely peaceable.
Additionally they mentioned the violent protests of February 28, 2025, which did develop into confrontational with riot police firing volleys of tear gasoline, stun grenades, and water cannons at protestors hurling gasoline bombs and smashed-up paving stones in Athens.
These protests have been additionally towards the conservative authorities’s perceived lack of accountability within the wake of the prepare catastrophe. Nevertheless, nobody was injured. Police detained over 120 individuals. And the Revolutionary Class Self-Protection says of their assertion the protests and clashes with police have been additionally an illustration towards the “American-Sionist genocidal warfare in Palestine.”
Cowards will not be confrontational, or are they?
The group states they’re a “revolutionary motion” needing mass mobilisation and “armed confrontation.” A blast close to a prepare firm just isn’t confrontational; it’s extra of an act of cowardice, which does jibe with their rhetoric
Most media retailers, aside from AP, declare Greek police are investigating the extremist group, however that can also be extremely probably false, as an in-depth EWN investigation discovered no affirmation that it was true.
DW, Al Jazeera, and Reuters, amongst others, additionally falsely reported that the group had additionally mentioned they have been behind the 2024 assault on the Labour Ministry. Nevertheless, the group by no means mentions 2024 or the ministry.
No affirmation from Greek police
Reuters ends their article saying “the group mentioned it devoted each assaults to Palestinians within the Gaza warfare.” The textual content really says, “We dedicate these two actions to the Palestinian individuals and their heroic resistance.” The 2 actions are clearly the 2 protests earlier this yr the group mentions.
The extremist group finalises their assertion saying each demonstrations have been additionally in solidarity with the struggles of the individuals of Palestine, notably these from Gaza.
Additionally they reported that the Greek anti-terrorism police have been trying right into a beforehand unknown extremist group, a declare kritikanews investigated in depth however discovered nothing about. Reuters additionally reported that an anti-terrorism unit had investigated a beforehand unknown guerrilla group.
In line with an April 13 AP report, police are following leads, together with photographs of 1 or two people on safety cameras and attainable cellphone conversations. After emails to the Greek police and scouring their web site, press workplace portal and high Greek media retailers, kritikanews was unable to verify AP’s declare.
Nevertheless, an hour after the bomb blast of April 11, the Greek police wrote on X that the Directorate for Combating Particular Violent Crimes was finishing up a preliminary investigation.
