Reply #16: I don't know if its been proven. [View All]

[tekisui]

The officials at the time were saying they suspected arson.

"A wildfire on the slopes of Mount Hymettus, blanketed the greater Athens area with white smoke and soot Sunday. Firefighters have now extinguished the blaze. Local officials suspect arson after discovering rags and small gas canisters at the site where the fire broke out. Across the country, police have arrested seven people in connection with the fires.

"Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis laid the blame for the more than 190 separate fires on arsonists and pledged to root them out and bring them to justice. So many fires "at the same hour, in so many parts of the country, it cannot be coincidence," he said during a televised address to the country Saturday. "

from Aug. 27, 2007:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2007/2007-08-27-01.asp