"30 Years in Paris", Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Pantin, France "The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue", Victoria Miro on Vortic "Le Cinquiéme Printemps", Custot Gallery, Dubai "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Asia Society, New York "Epic Iran" Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK "Soft Edge of the Blade", Frieze No 9 Cork Street with Dastan Gallery, London, UK Transformations from Richter to Lassnig from the Klöcker Collection", Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany "Taxonomies of Imagination", Make Room LA, Los Angeles (Curated by Andrew Sendor) "Dont fuck with our human", Fabian Lang Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland "Lindisfarne Gospels", Laing Art Gallery, New Castle, UK "100 Years", Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Buick Building, Miami, FL "Between before and after",Cristea Roberts Gallery, London "Shades of Daphne", Kasmin, New York (curated by Stephanie Cristello) Thomson Holidays said no-one in their party had been hurt seriously and it was expected they would all return to Britain tomorrow."Au bout de mes rêves (I will follow my dreams to the end)" Vanhaerents Art Collection, Lille 3000, The Tripostal in Lille, France Police cordoned off the airport building after the attack, while airport traffic was directed to the old airport normally used for domestic flights.Ī party of 24 British holidaymakers caught up in the attack was asked to remain in Athens for the night to help police with inquiries. The other said, 'Get down or I'll kill you'. There was blood all over the transit lounge. "Suddenly they started throwing bombs and shooting. One wore yellow trousers and a beige shirt, the other black trousers and a spotted shirt. The list of injured included mostly Greeks and Americans.Ī waiter in the departure lounge coffee bar, Elias Panou, said: "There were two men, aged about 18 or 20. Two of the dead have been identified as Americans, Elbert Kersing of New Jersey and Jeanne Salandri of New York. Two young women who had been seen talking to the Palestinians at the airport were later questioned by police and released. The gunmen have been named as Senhud Muhammad and Talat Hussan. Another older man was also hit.Ī German radio correspondent said he saw a young child hit in the upper body and a woman screaming for her child as blood spurted from her own shoulder. One American passenger described how the man standing next to him had his whole chest ripped by bullets and died on the spot. It is believed the gunmen intended to hijack the plane. The shooting began as passengers were about to be searched before boarding a flight for Tel Aviv in Israel. There were about 1,500 people packed into the transit hall when the first grenades were thrown, sparking panic among the crowd.Īs chandeliers fell from the ceiling, the guerrillas, who say they belong to the Palestinian militant group Black September, opened fire with sub-machine guns shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. The gunmen took about 35 of the passengers hostage and held them at gunpoint for more than two hours before finally surrendering to police. Three people have been killed and 55 have been wounded after two Arab gunmen opened fire and threw grenades into a crowded passenger lounge at Athens airport.
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