Authorities launch manhunt after 89-year-old suspect flees.
On Tuesday, a man injured five people in Athens after storming first a public office and then the Court of Appeals, where he fired indiscriminately before fleeing.
The 89-year-old man carried out the first attack at offices of the National Social Security Organization (EFKA), where he injured an employee by shooting him in the foot.
The suspect then got into a taxi and traveled to the Court of Appeals, located about 500 meters from Athens police headquarters, private broadcaster Skai reported.
After passing through the court’s main entrance, he began firing at people at the scene, slightly injuring four court employees in the feet.
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“We were in the courtyard of the Court of Appeals when suddenly people started running. An elderly man in a blue trench coat entered office No. 23, fired three shots at the floor and left the shotgun on the photocopier,” a witness told Skai.
After the second attack, the man managed to leave the court and authorities lost track of him, prompting Athens police to launch a large-scale operation to locate him.
The five people injured in the two attacks were taken to a hospital in Athens, where they received treatment for minor injuries, according to the news outlet Newsit.
The Association of Judges and Prosecutors of Greece said the “unprecedented” attack demonstrates “in the worst possible way the absence of adequate security measures for the protection of judicial officials, lawyers and the public who attend the courts daily.”
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Source: EFE
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