SWAT Police Arrest Failed Syrian Jihadist

Greek police special forces on Tuesday (10/9) neutralized during the day potential terrorist, who was on the balcony of the 6th floor of a residential building on Acharnon Street and threatened to blow up the house with a propane tank.

Negotiators EL.AS with the help of translators They tried to convince him otherwise, but communication was difficult, since he was presumably under the influence of drugs.

According to eyewitnesses, a 30-year-old man behaved inappropriatelyran around the balcony, showed a gas cylinder and a lighter, threatened unknown people with knives, climbed over the balcony railing and periodically shouted “Allah Akbar.”

Greek police special forces EKAM broke down the door and burst into the apartment where the Syrian lived and arrested him.

Earlier this morning, ELAS and the fire brigade received information about a Syrian who was causing a disturbance on the balcony of a building located next to the Ministry of Rural Development.

The man was reported to have knives and a gas cylinder and was threatening to blow up the building.

He also told the police that the whole his family allegedly died in the explosion.

The same sources report that the previous week, on September 3, a Palestinian also threatened to commit suicide and was taken to a psychiatric hospital.

Initially, the man, who was allegedly using drugs, threatened to jump from the balcony. Then he took out a gas cylinder, a lighter and announced that he would blow it up and the entire house.

“Due to the current situation, we were told to evacuate the building of the Ministry of Rural Development,” said the head of the ministry's staff, according to whom the building where the man is located was also evacuated.

Traffic police stopped traffic on the street in connection with the government operation. Acharnon on the section from Marni to Sturnari.

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