He Former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varufakis He was attacked last night by several hooded men in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia, according to his left-wing political party.
Apparently, a group of people discovered that the 61-year-old politician was in a restaurant from that neighborhood known for its leftist protest movements and began to insult him.
When Varufakis went out into the street, several hooded men threw him to the ground.They kicked and punched him in the face.. The former minister was treated at a hospital for a broken nose.
Varufakis himself thanked this morning on Twitter for the solidarity shown to him after the attack and denied that the attackers were anarchists or leftists. Rather, he maintained, they were “thugs” who had accused him of betraying Greece during the 2015 debt crisis, when he was finance minister in the Syriza government.
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“They were not anarchists, leftists, communists or members of any movement. They were hired thugs (and it seemed so) those who clumsily invoked the lie that I sold myself to the troika. We will not let them divide us,” Varufakis wrote on Twitter.
His party, Mera25, called the attack “fascist.” The economist is now a deputy and his formation has a voting intention of 3.5% in the polls.