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Greek police identify five individuals involved in incident at Sergej Andreevski's exhibition in Thessaloniki

Greek police identify five individuals involved in incident at Sergej Andreevski's exhibition in Thessaloniki

Athens, 9 May 2023 (MIA) – The Department for Combating Racist Violence of the Greek police in Thessaloniki has identified five individuals who stormed in and disrupted the exhibition by Macedonian artist Sergej Andreevski at a gallery in the district of Kalamaria, MIA’s Athens correspondent reports.

 
Greek authorities said they have identified five individuals including four Greek men aged 19, 20, 23 and 24 years old and the fifth is a woman, foreign national, aged 22. 


A case has been filed against all five for unlawful violence, a crime with racist characteristics and for inciting crimes, acts of violence or discord against a person based on national origin. 


The Greek police add that the investigation continues to identify the rest of the individuals involved in the incident.


On April 26, a group of black-clad members of the banned far-right "Golden Dawn", stormed in and disrupted an exhibition by Macedonian artist Sergej Andreevski at a gallery in the Thessaloniki district of Kalamaria.