Greeks hold 4 in bomb plot; Sarkozy target

ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Four people have been arrested in a plot to send mail bombs to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and foreign embassies in Athens, Greek police said Monday.

The package addressed to Sarkozy was found in the hands of two suspected far-left militants arrested after another package intended for the Mexican Embassy exploded at a courier company and injured an employee, The Daily Telegraph (Britain) reported.

Soon after the explosion, police spotted two people fitting eyewitness descriptions and arrested them, the Athens News Agency reported. They were armed and wearing bulletproof vests.

Police said one of them was a suspected member of the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a little-known group that specializes in arson attacks.

From a postal slip found on the suspects, the police tracked down and exploded a second parcel at another courier company, addressed to the Dutch Embassy.

Two more devices found on the detainees were intended for the French president and the Belgian Embassy police said.

Police officials told ANA the bomb addressed to the Mexican Embassy may be related to the police killing of an anarchist in Mexico a few days ago.