WORLD BRIEFING / GREECE
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Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman guarding a witness in central Athens in a brazen escalation of domestic militant attacks prompted by massive riots in December.
The death of 41-year-old Nektarios Savvas was the first killing attributed to terrorism in Greece in several years.
The officer had been guarding the home of a key witness in the trial of the now-defunct far-left Greek terrorist group Revolutionary People’s Struggle, known by its Greek acronym ELA.
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