1969 Athens attack | |
Location: | Athens, Greece |
Date: | 27 November 1969 |
Type: | Grenade attacks |
Fatalities: | 1 |
Injuries: | 14 |
Perps: | Palestinian Popular Struggle Front |
On 27 November 1969, El Al offices in Athens, Greece were attacked[1] with grenades by two terrorists belonging to the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PSF). A 2-year-old Greek boy later died from his injuries, while 14 others were wounded in the attack.[2] The two terrorists were arrested but subsequently released in the wake of the Olympic Airways Flight 255 hijacking.[3]
In 2019, Mansour Saif al-Din Mourad, a member of Jordan’s House of Representatives, in a television interview bragged about carrying out a terrorist attack against El Al offices in Greece in 1969 which was thought to have been this attack, although the date was cited as 27 December.[4]