Nikos Maziotis

The fingerprints and DNA of three suspects being sought in connection with an audacious bank robbery in Distomo, in the prefecture of Viotia, in August have been found in an apartment in Nea Makri, northeast of Athens, which is believed to have been used as a hideout by the robbers, and on a speedboat the perpetrators used as part of their getaway, police said on Tuesday.

Nikos Maziotis, the Revolutionary Struggle leader who was arrested this summer, claimed responsibility on Saturday for a large explosion at the Bank of Greece’s offices in central Athens on April 10.

The police on Thursday issued the names and photographs of three suspects it believes were involved in an armed bank robbery northwest of Athens last week that netted almost 400,000 euros in cash.

Police said they are looking for Spyros Dravilas, 33, Giorgos Petrakakos, 35, and Spyros Chrystodoulou, 44, over the raid at National Bank in the village of Paralia Distomou on Friday.

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.

An apartment raided Tuesday by the anti-terrorist squad in Patissia, near central Athens, belonged to a suspect who took part in armed bank robberies with terrorist Nikos Maziotis, police sources said.

Police have raided and apartment in Athens they believe was used by an accomplice of Nikos Maziotis, the terrorist arrested last month.

The property in Patissia had been rented by Giorgos Petrakakos. The 35-year-old has been wanted by police since they arrested Maziotis, who headed the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, in mid-July in Monastiraki.

Panagiota Roupa, the wife of Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis who was arrested last month in a shootout with police in central Athens, warned over the weekend that the guerrilla group would continue its armed action.

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

Nikos Maziotis, the head of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group who is being held at Diavata Prison in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was on Friday taken to the city’s Papanikolaou Hospital for a medical check.

Maziotis sustained injuries to his right arm during a shootout with police in central Athens that led to his arrest last month and had to undergo surgery.

Police in Greece on alert after terrorist's capture