Early on May 15, two foreign nationals aged 46 and 36 and a Greek woman, 25, with a foreign accomplice, 44, threw a homemade incendiary device at a building in Athens that housed a health-related store and a hotel.
In the other incident, early on June 18, a Greek male, 44, and a foreign male, 26, with a foreign accomplice aged 30, approached the central entrance of a building housing a synagogue in the center of Athens on a stolen motorcycle and started a fire by throwing flammable material.
The people arrested by police have been charged on several counts per case, including arson with racist motives, and were led before the relevant prosecutor in Athens. Proof confiscated from a home and a jail cell were sent to the state criminal lab for examination.
Of all individuals, five were detained and two were released on restrictions.