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Greece on Alert After Anarchist Group Sends Parcel Bombs to European Leaders

Authorities say the package was made to look like it was sent from one politician to another, but was most likely sent by the Conspiracy of Fire Cells (CFC).

European authorities have been shaken by the re-emergence of a Greek protest group classed as a terrorist organization by the US state department.

On March 16, a parcel arrived at the German ministry of finance addressed to Wolfgang Schauble, the country's steely second-in-command. Police said the package was designed to look like it was sent by Adonis Georgiadis, the deputy leader of Greece's conservative opposition New Democracy party.

But in reality, this was no friendly exchange between two like-minded politicians. The intercepted parcel—containing a small scale explosive mechanism—had most likely been mailed by a group known as the conspiracy of fire cells (CFC), an organization that's been active in Greece for the past decade and is considered by many to be the most dangerous anarchist group in the country.

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