Zero Tolerance Organization (Anarchist Entity, Greece)

• Local Name: Οργάνωση Μηδενική Ανοχή​
• Transliteration: Orgánosi Midenikí Anochí
• Alternatives: N/a
• Status: 2009 – 2017 (Disbanded)
• Conflicts: Greek Anarchist Militancy

The Zero Tolerance Organization [OMA; Orgánosi Midenikí Anochí] was an anarchist militant group active in Athens. The outfit was behind a campaign of attacks that lasted eight years. It was animated by deep resentment of the Greek government’s efforts to restructure the economy in the face of the country’s debt crisis. The group had a nihilist outlook and exhibited deep contempt for Greek politicians.

The OMA emerged in 2009. On Mar. 29, it attacked an office of the conservative ND party in the Greek capital city’s Zografou suburb with an incendiary bomb.¹ The outfit claimed responsibility for the action in a letter sent to a newspaper. The statement was not published. In May, the OMA similarly attacked an office of an insurance company in the city.² From now on, the group claimed its attacks through messages on left-wing extremist websites. On Jul. 27, the outfit was behind an incendiary bomb blast at an office of a legislator for the nationalist LAOS party in Athens’ Koukaki neighborhood.³

The next two years, the OMA carried out a spate of attacks against premises linked to officials and politicians belonging to the social-democratic PASOK party. It targeted the offices of Greek justice minister Militiadis Papaiouannou, deputy minister of foreign affairs Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulis and three members of parliament.⁴ During the same period, the OMA also hit at the Greek-Chinese chamber of commerce in Athens in opposition to the sale of the port authority of Pireaus to a Chinese corporation.⁵ On Apr. 03, 2012, it attacked the office of former Greek prime minister Kostas Simitis.⁶

By 2013, the OMA began focusing on its right-wing ideological opponents. On Feb. 13, its members set off an incendiary device at an office of the fascist CA party in Pireaus.⁷ Later that year, it attacked the office of conservative legislator Febronia Patrianakou.⁸ On Jan. 14, 2014, OMA operatives detonated an incendiary bomb at the office of Greek interior minister Giannis Michelakis in the Kolonaki suburb of Athens.⁹ In January 2015, it targeted the office of a senior member of the ND party.¹⁰

The OMA’s final operation was the Mar. 09, 2017 incendiary bomb attack on the office of a lawyer who represented a defendant in a trial against senior members of the fascist CA party.¹¹ The outfit claimed responsibility for the incident in a statement sent to a press outlet. The action received little attention. Following this attack, the OMA disappeared.

The makeup of the OMA was never revealed. Although the outfit usually dedicated its attacks to imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire [SPF; Synomosía ton Pyrínon tis Fotiás], the Group of Popular Fighters [OLA; Omáda Laikón Agonistón], the November 17 Revolutionary Organization [17N; Epanastatiki Organosi Dekaefta Noemvri] and the Revolutionary Struggle [EA; Epanastatikos Agonas], it remains unclear if the OMA had ties to any of these entities.¹²​