Trial over Marfin Bank deaths in violent 2010 Athens protest to start Monday

A court in Athens is due on Monday to start hearing the case against a man accused of causing the death of three bank employees during a violent anti-austerity protest in the city center in May 2010.

Theodoros Sipsas, 34, is accused of firebombing a branch of Marfin Bank on central Stadiou Street during a protest rally that spiraled into widespread violence, leading to the death by asphyxiation of three employees in the flaming building. Another two suspects who have not been identified are also implicated in the attack.

The trial - six years after the violence that erupted in the wake of Greece's signing of its first bailout deal with international creditors, and following numerous delays and postponements - is expected to be fraught, as it will be attended by relatives of the victims: 32-year-old Angeliki Papathanasopoulou, who was pregnant at the time of her death,...