Nikos Maziotis

The story of a 40-year-old police officer has caused a stir within the ranks of the Hellenic Police (EL.AS).

In 2020, he was honored for his service and later retired, but in 2024, he was implicated in a scheme that targeted elderly victims.

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.

Panagiota Roupa, a leading member of domestic terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle, was on Wednesday given a life term, and an additional 25-year sentence, for a car bomb attack outside the Bank of Greece headquarters in central Athens in April 2014.

Nikos Maziotis, the self-professed leader of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, was attacked in Attica's Korydallos Prison with a knife by fellow inmates, according to a post on an anti-establishment website on Friday.

The post claimed that Maziotis sustained a stab wound to the stomach while "around 10 prisoners" repeatedly punched him in the head and ribs.

The Athens University of Economics senate has reiterated its call to the Greek state to ensure the necessary conditions that will enable the institution's unhindered operation after members of anti-establishment groups stormed its lecture halls and workshops on Friday, forcing out teaching staff and students.

Doctors at the Geniko Kratiko state hospital in Nikaia, near Piraeus, where two convicted members of the Revolutionary Struggle guerrilla group were transferred earlier this week following a protracted hunger strike, on Wednesday issued a statement accusing authorities of violating the right of patients to refuse treatment and illegally using a hospital as a place of detention.

The self-professed leader of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, Nikos Maziotis, was in the hospital unit of Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison on Tuesday after starting a fire in his cell late on Monday in protest at penitentiary authorities' refusal to grant the demands of him and his partner Pola Roupa, who are both serving time for terrorist acts.

Hunger-striking convicted ringleaders of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa, have refused hospital treatment, it emerged on Monday, the 23rd day they refused food.

The pair are protesting the alleged violation of an agreement that they be allowed to communicate with their child and their lawyers without hindrance.

A 30-year-old police special guard alleged to have murdered a 52-year-old tax driver in Kastoria last week was remanded in custody on Monday.

The suspect is the officer who shot and arrested Nikos Maziotis - the self-professed leader of guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle - during a shootout at Monastiraki in 2014.

A 30-year-old police special guard who on Saturday confessed to the murder of a 52-year-old cab driver in the region of Lefki, in Kastoria, northern Greece, on Friday night was the man who shot and arrested Nikos Maziotis - a leading member of the Revolutionary Struggle urban terror group - during a shootout at Monastiraki in 2014.