The blast, which occurred at 08-30 hrs local time, caused shattered windows and damaged brickwork but no-one was hurt, thanks to an anonymous tipoff to a local newspaper twenty minutes earlier, and the prompt evacuation that followed, according to reports by local police.
Tsakos himself was away from home, and his on-duty guard escaped unscathed. As yet, nobody has taken responsibility for the bomb, which had been left in a black backpack outside the property’s entrance.
The blast forms part of a spate of small IED attacks on senior influential figures in Greece, as well as the bombing of an Athenian shopping centre by anarchists in January.
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