Terrorism in Greece

A police van that was transporting a convicted terrorist was involved in a crash with another five vehicles in Athens on Thursday afternoon, lightly injuring two police officers.

A group of about 20 anarchists threw flyers with slogans in support of convicted terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas outside the house of Supreme Court President Angeliki Aliferopoulou in the southern suburb of Glyfada on Tuesday.

The group also unfurled a banner and then fled.

Jailed terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas was transferred to Domokos high-security prison, near Lamia in central Greece, on Monday, following a recent tightening of the laws regarding prison leave and the transfer system.

The law, passed earlier in December, bans the transfer of detainees convicted of terrorist offenses to rural prisons and foresees much stricter criteria for furlough.

Counter-terrorism officers in Athens have raided what they believe to be a second hideout of an escaped convict and suspected member of an urban guerrilla group who was arrested on January 30 while on the run from prison. The suspect, identified as Yiannis Michalidis, had been convicted to 13 years in prison for an armed attack against police in 2015.

Counter-terrorism officers in Athens have discovered what they believe to be the hideout of an escaped convict and suspected member of an urban guerrilla group who was arrested on January 30 while on the run from prison. The suspect had been convicted to 13 years in prison for an armed attack against police in 2015.

Three terror suspects who were arrested on Wednesday are believed by police to have been planning a robbery, probably on a bank.
The arrests were hailed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis as a "great success."

Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis congratulated the country's counterterrorism unit for the arrests made during a raid in an Athens suburb on Wednesday.

"I would like to congratulate the leadership and staff of the counterterrorism unit for yet another great success. Every victory in the fight against terrorism is also a victory for our democracy," he said in a tweet.

Three people were arrested in a counter-terrorism operation early Thursday morning, including a prison escapee.

According to information, authorities detained Yiannis Michalidis, an alleged member of the urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, who had escaped from the agricultural prison of Tyrintha in the Peloponnese on June 2019.

The board of Cassaveteia Prison in central Greece on Thursday rejected a request by November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas for a temporary release from custody on furlough.

The Greek government is considering amending legislation to prevent convicts serving time for terrorism and other serious crimes from securing transfers to agricultural prisons where security is less tight, Kathimerini understands.

The matter is to be discussed Thursday by government officials, with legislative amendments expected to be submitted in Parliament in the coming days.