Former Greek finance minister Janis Varoufakis was attacked this Friday evening in a restaurant in Athens, breaking his nose while having dinner with members of the DiEM25 political movement from across Europe.
According to the digital newspaper ekathimerini.com, a small group broke into a restaurant in the Greek capital, in the Exarchia district, aggressively and falsely accusing Varoufakis as finance minister in the SYRIZA government led by Prime Minister Alexis. Tsipras signed agreements with Troika on financial assistance to Greece.
Varoufakis — the current general secretary of the left-wing Greek political party MeRA25 (European Realistic Defiance Front), part of the pan-European political movement DiEM25 (Movement for Democracy in Europe 2025, which he founded) — stood up to address the group members, but they immediately responded with violence , hitting him and breaking his nose while filming the scene with a cell phone.