89-year-old arrested after shooting spree at Athens government buildings

Five people wounded in the attacks: one female employee shot in the leg at social security office; four court officials lightly wounded at appeals court.

On a Tuesday morning in Athens, an 89-year-old man carried an old shotgun into two government buildings and wounded five people before being caught at a port, preparing to cross to Italy. His apparent motive — a rejected pension application — places this act within a longer, quieter story of austerity's unfinished reckoning in Greece. The attacks did not merely wound individuals; they revealed that the machinery meant to protect public institutions had been left idle for years, its X-ray scanners gathering dust for want of trained hands. In this, the incident becomes less an aberration than a

89-year-old arrested after shooting spree at Athens government buildings

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