Four held over parcel bomb threat to Sarkozy

FOUR people were arrested in Athens yesterday for plotting to send parcel bombs to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and three foreign embassies in the Greek capital, police said.

Police said one of the four people arrested was a suspected member of an elusive far-left group that specialises in arson attacks on offices and homes of politicians, Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.

One of the packages, addressed to Mexico’s embassy in Athens, detonated in the headquarters of a courier company, injuring a female employee’s hand.