In the night of October 27, urban guerrillas opened fire on the police station of Agia Paraskevi in Athens, wounding 5 officers, two of which are in intensive care. The attack has created a climate of tension and puzzlement as greece enters the period of the "two hot months".

The attack came at 21:40 on Tuesday 27 October, the eve of the 69th anniversary of the anti-nazi struggle. According to witnesses, the urban guerrillas opened fire with Kalashnikovs against the armed guard of the police station of Agia Paraskevi, a wealthy Athens suburb, leaving the scene uninhibited with the help of a hand grenade. The attack which consisted of a shooting of 100 bullets on the part of the urban guerrillas, has left six police officers, none of whom managed to return the fire. Two of the officers are reported to be in intensive care but not in life danger.

The Ministry of Public Order has announced that it does not accept the attack was caused as a retaliation of its offering 600.000 euros for information that will lead to the arrest of three wanted and condemned anarchists in relation to the bank robbery that has led to the imprisonment of another anarchist, Dimitrakis, in a trial that brought to the surface a lingering debate on social banditry.

With no group having yet claimed responsibility for the bloody attack, and given that the automatic weapons used in the attack have not been used before, the Ministry has expressed fears that it might be soon followed by another attack. As a response to the continuing urban guerrilla attacks against the police, the Ministry has announced that police stations will no longer have outdoors guards, declining any proposals for the introduction of new anti-terrorist legislation that would jeopardise constitutional freedoms.

The response of the parliamentary left to the attack has been one of both denouncing it and claiming it points to the work of agents provocateurs with the purpose of instituting anti-popular measures and repressive laws, reflecting Italy's 1970s strategy of tension. Surprisingly, on the right, apart from the customary denunciations, there has been criticism of a sterile "communication spectacularism" on part of the government, referring to the police sweeping operations in Exarcheia in the last weeks. A right wing newspaper, Avriani, has even gone as far as to propose on its front page an amnesty for all leftist guerrilla groups, on the condition of a decommission of arms.

The tension, suspicion and puzzlement caused by what is considered to be a "declaration of war" attack on part of the guerrilla movement, or one of its manifestations, comes as greece enters the "two hot months" of November and December, which apart from the usually tense anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic Uprising on November 17, now includes the first anniversary of the assassination of Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the start of the December Uprising, on December 6, as well as the trial of Grigoropoulos' murderers in mid December.