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A claim was also left outside an Athens building where Greek police botched a hostage rescue attempt a decade ago in which a woman was killed.
On Tuesday, four hooded men opened fire at cars parked outside the Alter television station before fleeing on motorbikes. Nobody was injured.
Police found over a dozen bullet casings from different handguns on the scene in addition to a makeshift bomb that failed to explode.
The TV station is operated by a publisher who also owns a newspaper hit in a run of arson attacks last week that were subsequently claimed by another far-left group calling itself "Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei".
Police on Wednesday said they matched the bullet casings from the TV station attack to weapons used by the previously unknown Revolutionary Sect against a police station this month.
Attacks by far-left groups have escalated in recent weeks following the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a policeman in December that sparked protests and street violence around the country.
Revolutionary Sect has threatened to indiscriminately kill police officers.
"From now on, the life of every cop is not worth more than a bullet," the group said in a letter heralding its appearance earlier this month that was also sent to Ta Nea newspaper.
A few weeks after the boy's death, Greece's most dangerous extremist outfit Revolutionary Struggle also carried out two strikes on police, ambushing a riot police van and a police patrol with assault weapons and seriously injuring a young officer.
Police suspect Revolutionary Struggle was also behind an apparent attempt to blow up the local headquarters of US banking group Citibank this week.
A time bomb consisting of five gas cylinders packed with explosives was found stashed in the rear of a stolen car parked outside the building early on Wednesday morning.
Police took out the bomb in a controlled explosion but media reports later indicated that the device was powerful enough to take out the entire building bloc had it detonated.
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On Tuesday, four hooded men opened fire at cars parked outside the Alter television station before fleeing on motorbikes. Nobody was injured.
Police found over a dozen bullet casings from different handguns on the scene in addition to a makeshift bomb that failed to explode.
The TV station is operated by a publisher who also owns a newspaper hit in a run of arson attacks last week that were subsequently claimed by another far-left group calling itself "Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei".
Police on Wednesday said they matched the bullet casings from the TV station attack to weapons used by the previously unknown Revolutionary Sect against a police station this month.
Attacks by far-left groups have escalated in recent weeks following the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a policeman in December that sparked protests and street violence around the country.
Revolutionary Sect has threatened to indiscriminately kill police officers.
"From now on, the life of every cop is not worth more than a bullet," the group said in a letter heralding its appearance earlier this month that was also sent to Ta Nea newspaper.
A few weeks after the boy's death, Greece's most dangerous extremist outfit Revolutionary Struggle also carried out two strikes on police, ambushing a riot police van and a police patrol with assault weapons and seriously injuring a young officer.
Police suspect Revolutionary Struggle was also behind an apparent attempt to blow up the local headquarters of US banking group Citibank this week.
A time bomb consisting of five gas cylinders packed with explosives was found stashed in the rear of a stolen car parked outside the building early on Wednesday morning.
Police took out the bomb in a controlled explosion but media reports later indicated that the device was powerful enough to take out the entire building bloc had it detonated.
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