A Crime Without Punishment: The Marfin Bank Attack in Athens 15 Years Later

A Crime Without Punishment: The Marfin Bank Attack in Athens 15 Years Later

Police guarding Athens’ Marfin Bank after the fire. Credit: Joanna/Wikipedia CC BY 2.0 Fifteen years ago hooded demonstrators set fire to a branch of Marfin Bank in central Athens, killing three people, and the culprits are still at large. “Fifteen years after the Marfin crime, the murder of our innocent fellow citizens wounds our collective conscience. It indicates, unfortunately, the obstacles encountered by the State’s battle with the scourge…

In its announcement for the fifteenth anniversary of Marfin, the Communist Party of Greece focuses on the instrumentalization of the crime, but also on the impunity of the moral and physical perpetrators. “They continue to exploit the Marfin crime and other provocative actions to ultimately incriminate the struggles of the workers and the class struggle, in the name of supposedly addressing division,” the KKE emphasizes. “Fifteen years after the…

PASOK points out the need for justice, but also the responsibility of the political system not to give ground to toxicity again, in its announcement on the 15th anniversary of… PASOK on Marfin tragedy: Responsibility of the political system not to give ground to extreme divisive logics again - NAVTEMPORIKI

"The souls who were murdered 15 years ago in Marfin are a permanent and urgent reminder to all of us, and primarily to the state, that the fight against blind violence is ongoing and our duty is to have more and more results. It is our duty in memory of 32-year-old pregnant Angeliki Papathanasopoulou, 36-year-old Paraskevi Zoulias and 36-year-old Epaminondas Tsakalis and to their families," emphasizes Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and go…

Greek PM marks 15 years since deadly Marfin Bank arson attack

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has marked the 15th anniversary of the deadly firebomb attack on a Marfin Bank branch in central Athens that killed three people during anti-austerity protests in 2010.

Fifteen years have passed since the Marfin tragedy, where three people, including a pregnant woman, lost their lives after a fire broke out from Molotov cocktails at the bank's branch on Stadiou Street, during a march against the First Memorandum.