<p>A gunman fired a spray of bullets at the headquarters of Greece’s governing center-right New Democracy party near central Athens early on Monday, with one hitting an office occasionally used by the prime minister, officials said. No one was hurt.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A government spokesman said the shooting was part of an effort to “terrorize” Greek society, which is struggling through its worst financial crisis in two generations amid a drastic fall in living standards and a record rise in unemployment.<br /><br />Police cordoned off the area where unknown gunman shot at least nine automatic rifle rounds at the building on the capital’s busy Syngrou Avenue, south of the city center.<br /><br />No group claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack, which follows a renewed wave of low-scale politically <br />motivated violence by small anarchist and far-left militants. The belt-tightening, amid widespread disgust with an incompetent and often corrupt political establishment blamed for the country’s woes, has boosted extremists both to the left and right of the political spectrum. A fringe ultra-right group accused of fostering violent attacks on dark-skinned immigrants is represented in Parliament and regularly polls as the country's third most popular party. All political parties condemned Monday’s attack.<br /><br />“No act of terrorism is going to scare us,” said Makis Voridis, a spokesman for New Democracy. “Our efforts to restore law and order ... will continue unobstructed.”</p>
<p>A gunman fired a spray of bullets at the headquarters of Greece’s governing center-right New Democracy party near central Athens early on Monday, with one hitting an office occasionally used by the prime minister, officials said. No one was hurt.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A government spokesman said the shooting was part of an effort to “terrorize” Greek society, which is struggling through its worst financial crisis in two generations amid a drastic fall in living standards and a record rise in unemployment.<br /><br />Police cordoned off the area where unknown gunman shot at least nine automatic rifle rounds at the building on the capital’s busy Syngrou Avenue, south of the city center.<br /><br />No group claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack, which follows a renewed wave of low-scale politically <br />motivated violence by small anarchist and far-left militants. The belt-tightening, amid widespread disgust with an incompetent and often corrupt political establishment blamed for the country’s woes, has boosted extremists both to the left and right of the political spectrum. A fringe ultra-right group accused of fostering violent attacks on dark-skinned immigrants is represented in Parliament and regularly polls as the country's third most popular party. All political parties condemned Monday’s attack.<br /><br />“No act of terrorism is going to scare us,” said Makis Voridis, a spokesman for New Democracy. “Our efforts to restore law and order ... will continue unobstructed.”</p>