Black-Green Nihilists (Anarchist Entity, Greece)

• Local Name: Μαυροπράσινοι Μηδενιστές​
• Transliteration: Mavroprásinoi Midenistés
• Alternatives: N/a
• Status: 2018 – 2019 (Disbanded)
• Conflicts: Greek Anarchist Militancy

The Black-Green Nihilists [MPM; Mavroprásinoi Midenistés] was a so-called green anarchist militant outfit that was briefly active in Athens. Its members set off an incendiary bomb outside a butcher shop in the Greek capital city’s Kypseli neighborhood, injuring an Albanian bystander.¹ The MPM asserted responsibility in a communiqué posted on a left-wing extremist website on Jan. 07, 2019.² The assailants claimed to have carried out the attack to protest the “capitalist” and “consumerist” use of animals as a resource for food, especially during the holiday season. The MPM acknowledged having caused unintentional injuries to a man but refused to apologize as “collateral casualties are unavoidable in war”.³ The MPM’s action followed sporadic acts of vandalism against butchers by anarchists in the neighborhood.⁴ It is unclear whether the outfit’s members were linked to these incidents.