ATHENS – Health Minister Thanos Plevris reported getting attacked by “cowardly leftists” who threw yoghurt at him while he sat at a Petralona restaurant with his family, in a tweet on Sunday.

“While eating lunch at a [restaurant] in Petralona with my wife and my children, cowardly leftists attacked me with yoghurts, getting my two children as well as me. This is who they are, aiming for me they hit my children with yoghurts,” the minister said.

“This is how low they are. In front of my eight-year-old son, my 13-year-old daughter and my wife, they attack and hit, apart from me, my family. This is who they are,” Plevris added in a later tweet.