Revolutionary Struggle

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.

Nikos Maziotis, the head of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group who was arrested earlier this month, has been moved to Diavata Prison in Thessaloniki.

Maziotis was transferred from Korydallos jail on Saturday amid tight security.

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.

Police on Wednesday were seeking a hideout or other clues that could shed light on the activities of Revolutionary Struggle after Nikos Maziotis, the leader of the leftist guerrilla group, was arrested following a dramatic shootout in central Athens.

An armed robbery on Thursdsy at a branch of Piraeus Bank in the small town of Sykourio near Larissa in central Greece resembled raids carried out by fugitive urban guerrilla Nikos Maziotis, according to police who have been seeking the self-professed leader of Revolutionary Struggle since July 2012 when he violated the terms of his conditional release from pretrial custody.

An assault rifle believed to have been used in an attack on the headquarters of the junior coalition partner PASOK a few hours before voting began in European Parliament elections on Sunday may have jammed, causing less damage than the perpetrators had intended, police sources indicated on Monday.

Citing the results of forensic tests, police indicated on Tuesday that Nikos Maziotis, the self-professed leader of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle who has been at large since July 2012, took part in a violent robbery last month in Achaia, in the Peloponnese.

Revolutionary Struggle, an urban guerrilla group that emerged over a decade ago, on Friday claimed its first attack in more than four years as a proclamation posted on the Indymedia website said that the organization planted the large car bomb that exploded outside the Bank of Greece on April 10.

Police believe a car bomb explosion outside the Bank of Greece on Thursday might have been planned by two wanted terrorists – the leader of Revolutionary Struggle Nikos Maziotis and November 17 convict Christodoulos Xeros, Kathimerini has learned.

Police in Greece say they have destroyed a bomb by controlled explosion outside a tax office in western Athens, following overnight warning calls to a television station and news website. There was no damage or injuries.