Nikos Maziotis

Authorities have released four new photographs of Panayiota Roupa, the fugitive partner of urban guerrilla leader Nikos Maziotis who was arrested by police last week.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Tuesday visited the main headquarters of the Greek Police (GADA) in central Athens to express his congratulations to the force over the arrest last week of terror fugitive Nikos Maziotis.

Samaras was accompanied by Public Order Minister Vassilis Kikilias and met with the chief of the force, Yiannis Diamantopoulos.

The leader of Greek terror group Revolutionary Struggle, Nikos Maziotis, who has been in detention since last Wednesday following a shootout with police in central Athens, on Monday refused to answer the questions of an investigating magistrate, choosing instead to send a political message.

A magistrate visited Korydallos Prison Monday with the aim of taking a deposition from terrorist Nikos Maziotis, who was arrested last week.

Maziotis was moved from Evangelismos Hospital to the jail on Saturday on his own request even though doctors advised him to stay for treatment following his shoulder operation.

Captured terrorist Nikos Maziotis begins the week in a secure room at the Korydallos Prison infirmary after being moved there from Evangelismos Hopsital on Saturday to continue his post-operation recovery.

Convicted terrorist Nikos Maziotis, who was arrested on Wednesday, refused on Saturday to give a deposition to a magistrate who visited him in the hospital where he is being treated for a bullet wound.

An arrest warrant was issued on Friday for a 35-year-old man believed to be an accomplice of Nikos Maziotis but who also embodies a link between the terrorist who was arrested in central Athens on Wednesday and fugitive criminal Vassilis Palaiocostas.

Counter-terrorism officers have located the hideout of Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis near the electric railway (ISAP) station in Maroussi, north of Athens, sources said on Friday.

Neighbors shown a recent photograph of the 42-year-old guerrilla told police he was a resident of an apartment block at 27, Ypsilantou Street, according to reports.

Judicial authorities on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis and for a suspected accomplice of the leftist guerrilla, who was not named, sources said.

The accomplice is believed to have collaborated with Maziotis in previous armed robberies.

Counter-terrorism officers are to visit Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis in Evangelismos Hospital on Friday to get the leftist guerrilla's first deposition since his arrest in central Athens on Wednesday after a bloody shootout.