Late on Saturday evening, a group of between 30 and 50 youngsters attacked the house of President Karolos Papoulias.
The result of the attack was some minor damage to the entrance of the house at Asklipiou Street in central Athens, and to the car that Papoulias uses. The hooded youngsters, who arrived by motorbike and on foot just after 8 pm, hurled a Molotov cocktail, rocks and paint at the house but stopped short of attacking the two guards at the President’s house.
Papoulias was inside at the time of the attack. Police are searching for those responsible for the unexpected attack.
Papoulias, 82, is one of Greece’s most respected politicians after years of service as foreign minister under successive socialist administrations.
But his popularity has waned in recent months, and in October he was heckled at a national parade by protesters accusing him of bowing to an unpopular fiscal overhaul monitored by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
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