Three firebomb attacks outside Thessaloniki apartment buildings on July 1 caused one death and injured three people. Authorities said the targeted homes belonged to members of New Democracy, Greece’s governing conservative party. The sequence began at 4 a.m. and ended 45 minutes later.
Police said the attackers used improvised explosive devices assembled with camping-gas canisters. The first two incidents caused damage, while all reported casualties came from the third location, where vehicles and motorcycles caught fire. No group was identified in the supplied account as having claimed or carried out the attacks.
One burned car was reported to belong to Afroditi Nestora, a parliamentary candidate for New Democracy. Nestora sustained burns. Her mother was also burned and later died in intensive care. Two other residents of the same building were hospitalized, bringing the injuries described by authorities to three.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who leads New Democracy, traveled to Thessaloniki and visited the injured in hospital. In a written response, he condemned political violence and said the state and society should reject terrorism. Konstantinos Kyranakis, secretary of the party’s political committee, also called the incidents terrorist attacks and argued that the perpetrators intended to kill.
Those political descriptions reflected the officials’ interpretation of the violence. The evidence provided did not identify suspects, disclose arrests or set out a judicial classification of the offenses. Investigators’ immediate factual account centered on the timing, construction of the devices, fires and resulting casualties.
Low-level attacks against political offices, officials, police and other symbols of authority occur with some frequency in Greece, although most lead only to property damage. The fatality in Thessaloniki therefore marked a particularly grave outcome. A bomb outside the city home of the head of Greece’s prison-guards association in July 2025 left that official unharmed but injured two other people with broken glass.
Another previous incident occurred in Athens in June 2024, when a police officer guarding a senior judge’s home was hurt in an attack involving a gasoline bomb. These earlier cases show a background of attacks on authority-linked targets, but the supplied evidence did not connect their perpetrators to the July 1 incidents.
The Thessaloniki inquiry remained open at the point described. One victim had died from burn injuries, Nestora and two neighbors were hospitalized, and several vehicles were destroyed or damaged. With no perpetrator named, attribution beyond the apparent political choice of locations had not been established.
The timing and use of similar devices across three sites led authorities to treat the events as a connected sequence. Even so, the available account did not say whether investigators had recovered surveillance images, identified how many people participated or determined how the targets were selected. Those matters remained open.
