Two identified over soccer stadium blast

Organized transgression squad officers person identified two men believed to beryllium down an onslaught with a small homemade explosive instrumentality connected a Thessaloniki shot stadium soon earlier Christmas that caused insignificant harm and nary injury, constabulary said Wednesday.

The pre-dawn detonation astatine Aris Thessaloniki’s Kleanthis Vikelidis location crushed damaged a children’s enactment halfway connected December 22, 2025.

A constabulary statement said 1 of the suspects was a 48-year-old supporter of a rival Thessaloniki shot club. It said the two suspects drove up to the shot stadium connected a motorbike, and the 48-year-old allegedly got off, threw the instrumentality and escaped connected the bike.

Both look charges of causing an explosion, arson, operation and possession of amerciable explosives and breaches of sports violence laws.