- Local Name: Άγρια Ελευθερία
- Transliteration: Agria Elefthería
- Alternatives: N/a
- Status: 2013 – 2013 (Disbanded)
- Conflicts: Greek Anarchist Militancy
Wild Freedom [AgE; Agria Elefthería] was a left-wing extremist group based in the city of Athens. Its members helped carry out the Jan. 20, 2013 bomb attack at a shopping center in the Maroussi suburb of the Greek capital.1 The assailants had warned two press outlets of the impending attack and the device went off following the evacuation of the mall.2 Two security guards were hurt in the blast. The attack got considerable attention in the Greek press and was denounced by politicians from across the entire political spectrum.3
On Jan. 24, the AgE and the Promoters of Social Explosions [YKE; Ypokinités Koinonikón Ekríxeon] posted a statement on an anarchist website in which they jointly claimed responsibility for the action.4 The groups denounced the shopping center as a “symbolic graveyard of people” and rejected the “capitalist logic of collateral losses”. The assailants maintained that they had tried to avoid casualties and rejected “slanderous accusations” to the contrary. The groups furthermore expressed solidarity with imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of the Fire [SPF; Synomosía ton Pyrínon tis Fotiás], the November 17 Revolutionary Organization [17N; Epanastatiki Organosi Dekaefta Noemvri] and Revolutionary Struggle [EA; Epamastatikos Agonas]. Investigators believed that the AgE and the YKE were linked to the perpetrators of the failed Feb. 25, 2012 arson attack on a subway train by the February 12 Movement [K12F; Kínima 12 Flevári].5
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