Terrorists “made in Greece” is now for USAtwo Greek organizations linked to the antifa movement, which US President Donald Trump is fighting so hard.
The US State Department appears to be expanding its list of terrorist organizations and now includes four European groups linked to the Antifa movement as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” and “Specifically Designated Global Terrorists”.
According to information from Fox News, the US Department of State will include these organizations active in Germany, Italy and Greece in the same list, which includes organizations such as ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah, showing that Donald Trump says and means that he will crack down on the antifa movement at the international level as well.
It is the first time the US government has applied “foreign terrorist organization” designations to groups linked to Antifa, effectively expanding President Donald Trump’s previous directive on domestic terrorism internationally.
The four Antifa-affiliated groups are accused of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings and other politically motivated actions, the report said.
The designation requires U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of FTOs and SDGTs and bar group members from entering the U.S. It also allows the US to prosecute those on US soil who provide material support to, or conspire to provide support to, FTOs.
The organizations with a “Greek flavor” – Two more from Italy and Germany on the list
Two of the four organizations entering the US terrorist “cadre” from Greece are the Armed Proletarian Justice and the Revolutionary Class Self-Defense.
The first, had taken responsibility for her placement bomb at the MAT facilities in Goudi in December 2023 while the second one is connected to bombing at Hellenic Train headquartersin April 2024.
According to Fox News, both organizations have carried out attacks on government buildings in various parts of the country, while the Revolutionary Self-Defense Forces dedicated an attack “to the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance.”
In Germany, Antifa Ost is a left-wing cell that has been linked to attacks between 2018 and 2023 in the country with German prosecutors indicting seven people linked to the organisation.
The International Revolutionary Front, also known as the Informal Anarchist Federation, is a coalition of groups in Italy supporting revolutionary armed conflict against the Italian state. The group, which spans more than two decades, has been linked to dozens of incidents such as letter bombs to government and industrial targets, small explosive devices, shootings, and is also linked to the 2012 assassination of a nuclear engineering executive.