Mon Oct 26,
2015 4:58pm EDT
ATHENS
Reuters
Many Greeks
blame Germany , Europe 's biggest economy, for the austerity programs
linked to the country's 86 billion euro ($95 billion) international bailout
agreed in August.
Prime
Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftist government was re-elected in September even
though he was charged with implementing austerity measures that he had promised
to cancel when he was in opposition.
The Greek
government passed a law this month toughening punishment for tax dodgers and
has promised to improve revenue collection as part of the bailout conditions.
The deputy
minister, Tryfon Alexiadis, who is in charge of tax revenues, said those who
had sent the letter were "fascist psychopaths" whose action gave him
more courage to keep up the fight against tax evasion and corruption.
"Never
in my life, have I been afraid of clashing and fighting against a rotten and
corrupted establishment which has brought us to this point," he said in a
statement, noting that the culprits will be brought to justice.
The
single-page, bold-typed letter read, "Until the hour 0, you and your
family will know what fear means," and was signed with a red star by a
previously unknown group called "Kokkini Fraxia", loosely translated
as Red Faction.
An urban
guerrilla group called the Red Army Faction led armed attacks on politicians,
industrialists and soldiers in the 1970s and 1980s in then in West Germany
Police said
they were investigating the threat against Alexiadis.
(Reporting
by Michele Kambas and Renee Maltezou; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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