Police from the Security Department are searching for the three black-clad, hooded men, using footage recorded by the security camera of the car dealership in Nea Philadelphia, which was the target of an arson attack early this morning.

According to reports, the company’s security camera captured the perpetrators walking from Thessalonikis Street toward the dealership’s entrance. They first threw the gasoline bottles at a car parked in front of the showroom and then hurled the remaining bottles into the adjacent parking lot, where the other vehicles were parked, before fleeing the scene.

Protothema.gr presents video evidence and photographs of the fire that broke out in the cars, with five of them completely burned and another four sustaining extensive material damage.

Flames and thick black smoke reached up to the second floor of the neighboring apartment building, while one video shows Fire Department vehicles arriving at the scene to extinguish the blaze.

Four fire engines with twelve firefighters operated at the site, and after about an hour they managed to put out the fire before it spread to the other vehicles belonging to the company.

Eyewitnesses report hearing explosions coming from the dealership’s parking area and seeing three men dressed in black who had been walking around the dealership before the attack.