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11th anniversary of fatal Marfin Bank arson attack
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It has been 11 years since the firebomb attack on a branch of Marfin Bank in downtown Athens, which led to the tragic deaths of three people and an unborn child.
“Eleven years since the killing of Paraskevi Zoulia, Angeliki Papathanasopoulou and Epameinondas Tsakalis. Eleven years since the black day that stigmatised Greek society,” Mitsotakis tweeted.
The three bank employees, 32-year-old Angeliki Papathanasopoulou who was then in her fourth month of pregnancy, Epaminondas Tsakalis, aged 36, and Paraskevi Zoulia, aged 35 – were working in the bank on Stadiou Street with another 25-30 colleagues while a protest against austerity measures was underway.
ATHENS – With a probe reopening into who did it, Greece's New Democracy government marked the 11th anniversary of the Marfin firebomb attack that killed three bank workers during anti-austerity protests - The National Herald