The Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei (SPF) conducted its first wave of nearly simultaneous firebombing attacks using gas canister bombs at around 01:00 on 21 January 2008, to express solidarity with an arrested anarchist. At 17:00 on 20 February an
incendiary device was detonated at the Athens law firm of
Anastasios Papaligouras, former
Minister for Justice. An employee was cut by flying glass. The following day, assailants detonated incendiary devices as part of eight separate attacks across parts of
Attica, targeting banks, an insurance company and several vehicles. the young student whose killing by police officers in December 2008 had led to the
2008 Greek riots. On October 30 a similar device was detonated outside the Athens home of
Marietta Giannakou, a prominent conservative opposition
Member of the European Parliament, causing minor damage and no injuries. On 14 November a bomb detonated in front of the home of
Panhellenic Socialist Movement deputy
Mimis Androulakis in the Kareas suburb of eastern Athens. The SPF claimed the attack. On 28 December a more powerful bomb went off in the Athens district of
Neos Kosmos, damaging the Ethniki Asfalistiki insurance building off
Syngrou Avenue. The group's proclamation announced a new alliance with a group that had access to real explosives. The SPF took credit for further attacks in 2010, including the explosion of a makeshift bomb on 9 January outside the
Greek parliament building, causing minor damage and no injuries, and three bomb attacks on 20 March relating to the immigration issue. The bombs attacked the offices of Greek Nationalist party
Golden Dawn, causing significant damage, the home of a Pakistani community leader in Athens, causing slight damage and no injuries, and a bus shelter outside a police station along
Petrou Ralli Street in Athens, which had been implicated in several instances of police violence against immigrants, including the death of two Pakistanis in custody at the station. The latter explosion caused minimal damage and no injuries.
Parcel bombs On 1 November 2010, a
parcel bomb addressed to the Mexican
Embassy in Athens exploded in the office of a courier company, scorching the hands of the employee who handled it. A second package, containing a similar bomb (a small quantity of gunpowder from fireworks) addressed to offices of
Eurojust in the Netherlands, was destroyed in a
controlled explosion. Two suspects were arrested after police cordoned off the affected area. Both were wearing wigs and armed with
Glock pistols, and one was wearing a
bulletproof vest. They were in possession of two other explosive parcels, one addressed to French President
Nicolas Sarkozy and the other to the Belgian Embassy. By the evening of Tuesday the 3rd of November, the police had found an extra 9 parcel bombs addressed to the Athenian embassies of Bulgaria, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Switzerland and The Netherlands. Two of the explosive packages exploded on the grounds of the Russian and Swiss embassies respectively. With one reaching the offices of
Angela Merkel in Berlin and another addressed to
Silvio Berlusconi intercepted on a courier plane. There was a total of 14 bombs counted for. Greek authorities halted international airmail for 48 hours on 3–4 November 2010, following the mail bombings, and the police were reported to be searching for members of the SPF in relation to the attacks. In March 2017, a parcel bomb meant for German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was intercepted. Conspiracy of Fire Cells claimed responsibility for sending that device as the second act in "Project Nemesis". They are also suspected of having sent the parcel bomb that injured an
IMF employee in Paris on 16 March. The letter was sent from Greece.
2010–2011 Dutch cell The Conspiracy Cells of Fire, Dutch Cell claimed through June 2010 to February 2011 several arsons on office towers in
Utrecht, including the
Rabobank headquarters in Utrecht as well as a cyber-attack on Rabobank's website. The cell claimed in its communique: “The attacks on the fascists of Rabobank is dedicated with all our fire to our brothers of the prisoner’s cell of the members of Conspiracy Cells of Fire and the oppressed people of the world. Our comrades and the honest minority of dignified revolutionary Persons political and civil, are not just a piece of our struggle, are not only an aspect of our action, but their choices, attitudes and dignity are the struggle itself as a whole, they are the substance."
2010 Athens courthouse bombing On 30 December 2010, a
motorcycle bomb caused major damage to an Athens courthouse, the blast caused massive damage to the courthouse as well as smashing nearby windows and wrecking at least 8 cars. No injuries were sustained as police had evacuated the area after a warning call. A communique appeared online signed "Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire" stated that “We dedicate the attack at the courthouse to our brothers,” targeting the court before the trial of 13 of its suspected members on January 17, 2011.
2011 police shootout In May 2011 a
shootout occurred in an Athens suburb between police officers and an individual suspected to be linked to the SPF. Two officers were wounded, as was the suspect. The suspect's fingerprints were allegedly found in an apartment in
Volos where numerous SPF members had been previously arrested. A second suspect was reported to have been involved in the shootout, but it is unclear whether that individual was apprehended.
2024 Labour Ministry bombing On February 3, 2024, a bomb detonated outside the Greek Labour Ministry in Athens. Responsibility for the attack was later claimed by a new group calling itself the 'Revolutionary Class Self-Defence'. Police suspect that this supposed group includes militants drafted by terrorists remaining at large after Greece's largest terror group (
17N) was disbanded over two decades ago. No casualties were reported in the blast. However, one of the suspects arrested has been linked to the SPF. == Arrests and escapes ==