Greek militant guerrillas linked to shooting of policeman

Gunmen linked to Greece’s most militant guerrillas shot and seriously wounded a policeman in Athens yesterday, weeks after the killing of a teenager by police prompted nation wide rioting.

Police said one of at least two weapons fired at a group of riot police, guarding the Culture Ministry in the central Athens Exarchia district, was the same used by the left-wing Revolutionary Struggle guerrilla group.

“The investigation into the 9mm weapon used in Monday’s attack showed that it was used in an attack on a police station in April 2007,” police said. That was the last attack claimed by the group which surfaced in 2003.