Revolutionary Struggle

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.

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.

Greek police on Friday were seeking a 27-year-old associate of Panagiota Roupa, a leading member of the Revolutionary Struggle guerrilla group, after she violated the terms of her conditional release, failing to report to her local police station.

Constantina Athanasopoulou had been arrested in January 2017 as an associate of Roupa, herself then a fugitive.

Domokos Prison inmates Nikos Maziotis, Costas Gournas and Dimitris Koufodinas announced on Monday they were going on a hunger strike in a call for the abolition of the Type C maximum-security prison wing at the penitentiary facilities in central Greece, among other demands.

A 31-year-old man accused of being a member of leftist guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle and of planning an imminent terrorist attack, announced on Tuesday morning that he is going on hunger and thirst strike in order to pressure authorities to remand him in custody at the Greek capital's Korydallos Prison.

Antonis Stamboulos, the man arrested last week on suspicion of being a member of leftist guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle and of planning an imminent terrorist attack, was transferred to Attica’s high-security Korydallos Prison on Monday.

 Revolutionary Struggle suspect says he ‘will not yield’ as new photo released

Counterterrorism police officers continued an investigation over the weekend into the connections of 31-year-old Antonis Stambopoulos, who has been linked to jailed Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis.

Nikos Maziotis, the leader of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group who was arrested earlier this year, was planning another bomb attack when officers seized him after shots were fired in the busy Monastiraki area of Athens, police sources have told Kathimerini.

Greek authorities have started installing surveillance cameras at guard posts outside police precincts and other facilities feared to be possible terrorist targets, Kathimerini understands.

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.