Security breach at Thessaloniki courthouse was ‘quite serious,’ minister says

The gap in the security of the courthouse in Thessaloniki where a parcel bomb sent to a senior judge was found and defused on Monday was "quite serious," Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis said on Tuesday.

"For such a device to reach the office of the president of the Appeals Court judges and from there to the office of another president shows that something is obviously not working well in the checks," he told Open TV channel. "There is a gate that does not have an x-ray machine, but that does not mean that everything that passes through there should not go through the [other] machine."

The minister said police is reassessing the entire security system of the courthouse, which suffered a major bomb attack a few years ago.

The Supreme Court and the court's prosecutor's office issued a joint statement calling on the ministry to install mail and parcel scanners in...