Arson attack targets car of professor linked to Tempe crash report

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Authorities are investigating a suspected arson onslaught connected the αυτοκίνητο of a National Technical University of Athens prof who co-authored an adept study attributing the fireball that followed the deadly 2023 Tempe train clang to motor oils.

The vehicle, belonging to Professor Dimitris Karonis, was acceptable ablaze connected the university field successful Zografou astatine astir 4 p.m. connected Monday. Unknown individuals reportedly doused the αυτοκίνητο with a flammable liquid earlier igniting it.

Shortly aft the incident, an unidentified caller contacted the Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper, claiming work connected behalf of a radical calling itself “Kyriakos Xymitiris – Solidarity with those of Ambelokipi.”

The sanction is believed to notation Kyriakos Xymitiris, a 37-year-old antheral who was killed successful November 2024 when an explosive instrumentality helium was assembling detonated successful an flat successful the Ambelokipi territory of Athens.

In January, 5 individuals went connected trial successful transportation with that case, facing charges including information successful a terrorist organization, possession of explosives and causing an explosion.

In May 2025, Karonis co-authored a study that concluded that the ample detonation and fireball pursuing the Tempe clang were apt caused by silicone oils used successful train systems.

The then president of the Tempe victims’ relatives association, Maria Karystianou, described the study arsenic speculative and unfounded.