A group of hooded men has attacked to the former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis on the night of this Friday in Athens, as reported by his party, in a release in which he calls the attack a “fascist attack”.

Apparently, several people began to insult the politician61, when he was in a restaurant that he frequents in the Athenian neighborhood of Exarchia, having dinner with several European colleagues from his Democracy in Europe 2025 Movement.

Subsequently, and despite the fact that Varoufakis tried to calm the situation, according to his formation, several hooded he was thrown to the ground, kicked and punched in the face. After the beating, the former minister had to be treated in a hospital for a broken nose.

Varoufakis himself thanked at dawn on Twitter for the medical care and solidarity received, while at the same time He has denied that his attackers were anarchists or leftists, despite the fact that said neighborhood is known for its left-wing protest movements. Instead, he has maintained that they were “thugs” who had accused him of betraying Greece during the 2015 debt crisis, when he was a minister in the Syriza government.

“They were not anarchists, leftists, communists or members of any movement. They were hired thugs (and it seemed so) those who clumsily invoked the lie that I sold myself to the troika. We will not let them divide us,” he wrote on Twitter:

Varoufakis was one of the best-known faces of the resistance of the then Greek Executive to accept, in the midst of the economic crisis, the conditions of the call ‘troika‘ – the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund – to sign a new bailout in exchange for austerity measures. The economist is now a deputy and his formation has a voting intention of 3.5% in the polls.

According to the note from his political party, Mera25, the “thugs” accused him precisely of having yielded precisely to the wishes of the aforementioned troika. Greek media quoted by DPA the assailants number approximately twenty.

Meanwhile, Actors from across the Greek political spectrum have condemned the assaultfrom the Greek president, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to the leader of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, and the spokesmen for the socialist PASOK and the Communist Party, as well as the leader of the Hellenic Solution, according to the Greek newspaper ‘Kathimerini’, quoted by Europa Press.