- Local Name: Υποκινητές Κοινωνικών Εκρήξεων
- Transliteration: Ypokinités Koinonikón Ekríxeon
- Alternatives: N/a
- Status: 2013 – 2013 (Disbanded)
- Conflicts: Greek Anarchist Militancy
The Promotors of Social Explosions [YKE; Ypokinités Koinonikón Ekríxeon] was one of the two left-wing militant outfits that were behind the Jan. 20, 2013 bomb blast at a shopping center in Athens’ Maroussi suburb.1 The assailants had given prior warning of the attack in calls to two news outlets, but two security guards still got injured in the explosion.2 The bombing received major coverage by the Greek press and was rejected by politicians from across the entire spectrum.3
The YKE and Wild Freedom [AgE; Agria Elefthería] published a joint claim of responsibility for the incident on an anarchist website on Jan. 24, 2013.4 They denounced the shopping mall as a “symbolic graveyard of people” that died due to the “capitalist logic of collateral losses”. Despite the two injured guards, the outfits maintained that they had tried to avoid casualties. The attackers expressed solidarity with imprisoned militants 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; Epanastatikos Agonas]. Similarities in the construction of the device led the authorities to believe that the YKE and the AgE were linked to the February 12 Movement [K12F; Kínima 12 Flevári] that was responsible for the failed Feb. 25, 2012 incendiary bomb attack on a subway train.5
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