Greek anarchists claim to have poisoned Coca-Cola products (AFP Photo/Sakis Mitrolidis)
Athens
(AFP) - Four prominent Greek and multinational food companies face the
prospect of yanking goods from supermarket shelves during the Christmas
holidays after a contamination threat by anarchists, police said
Tuesday.
"Clearly there will be a withdrawal, the companies will be issuing the relevant announcements," a police source told AFP.
A
group called Green Nemesis on Monday said it had tainted several dozen
units of products by Coca-Cola, Nestle, Unilever and Greek dairy giant
Delta.
"We
have appropriated products from the main supermarket chains in the
greater Athens area," the group said in a statement posted on an
anti-establishment website.
"The products have been poisoned with chlorine and hydrochloric acid," it said.
Authorities
said Greece's anti-terror squad was looking into the case, and that the
country's food safety watchdog had also been informed.
The
self-styled anarchists said they had laced Unilever Caesar's salad
sauce and tomato sauce as well as Coca-Cola and Nestle drinks, and Delta
milk.
"The
operational aim is to sabotage the above companies, forcing them to
fully withdraw their products for two weeks," they said.
The group said they would be returning the allegedly tainted products to supermarket shelves between December 22 and January 5.
The same group had pulled off a similar operation in 2013.
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