State Department: N17 hitman's furlough is incentive for violent anarchists

The US State Department has condemned the new prison leave granted by Greek authorities to convicted November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas, describing it as an injustice for his victims and an incentive for violent anarchists.

"Once gain, we would like to strongly condemn the release of a convicted terrorist, named Dimitris Koufodinas, on a five-day reprieve from his imprisonment in Greece," State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert told journalists at regular press briefing on Tuesday.

"It is his fourth and longest furlough in the past year."

Nauert stated that Koufodinas was a terrorist, who has been convicted of multiple murders, including those of US Embassy Defense Attache William Nordeen in 1988 and US Air Force Sergeant Ronald Stewart in 1991.

"These furloughs are a shameful injustice to his many victims' families and serve as a further incentive...

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