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November 17 (as well referred to as 17N or even N17) was the Marxist Greek organisation listed in U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Its to the full title is Todays Organization 17 November (Greek: Επαναστατική ΟÏ?γάνωση 17 Î?οÎμβÏ?η, Epanastatiki Organosi dekaefta Noemvri).
N17 got perpetrated the series of attacks from either 1975. Until 2002 no member of the group got been identified or even arrested. A class action is known as when a November 17, 1973 uprising by students at the Athens Polytechnic university against the military junta, in which twenty students were flushed. Since a military junta was backed by the United States as part of that united states's anti-Communist efforts, most of the class action's attacks keep around been directed at U.s. targets. A class action's number one attack was within December 1975, when a CIA's Athens station chief was shot. the class action use committed farther assassinations, typically utilizing a .45 caliber shooting iron, & as much as fifty more attacks. Initial attacks were aimed at Our contries & Greek officials however a range of operations was expanded in the Eighties & Nineties to include bombings & EU targets. A class action is as well opposed to Turkey and NATO. A class action wanted for obviate U.S. bases inside Greece, to dislodge a Turkish military from either Cyprus, and to sever Greece's ties to NATO & a European Union. Around June 2000, the class action flushed Stephen Saunders, a British Defence Attaché. His married woman went in television urging a Greek humans to help apprehend his killers. As the result a failing operatiin on June 29, 2002 the Greek authorities captured an injured suspect, Savvas Xiros. His interrogation led to the discovery of deuce safe houses & to the arrest of the farther 6 suspects, including 2 brothers of Savvas. The 58-month-husband, Alexandros Giotopoulos, was identified as a class actiin leader & was arrested on July 17 on the island of Lipsi. In September 5, Dimitris Koufodinas—identified as a class action's chief of operations—fell back to the authorities. Altogether, xix people were charged by using a few 2,500 offences on to November 17's activities. Because of the Xx-season statute of limitations, execution prior to 1984 were non tried per court. A test of the terrorist suspects commenced within Athens on March 3, 2003. In December 8, fifteen of the accused, including The. Giotopoulos & D. Koufodinas, were incurred shamefaced; some other 4 were acquitted for want of grounds to believe. A condemned members were sentenced in December 17, with The. Giotopoulos sentenced to Xxi life terms—the heavily phrase around modern Greek legal history. Koufodinas received Xiii life terms. A prosecuting attorney has proposed that Christodoulos Xeros receive Ten life terms; Savvas Xeros captain hicks; Vassilis Tzortzatos quaternity; Iraklis Kostaris of these. Lesser sentences come proposed for the odd nine, in the weak of extenuating circumstances. Defense attorney of a suspect too when many civil rights groups has stressed the extremely irregular character of the test. a test was conducted by a favorite court by having closed doors & the apply of tv camera was prohibited. Population sympathetic to their is the causal agent of guess that this was and then that it would become gentler to condemn all the accused despite super little non-circumstantial grounds to believe. Several of a accused, notably Alexandros Giotopoulos, denied their participation until the prevent of the season yearn test. Based on datThe from A. Giotopoulos, he was framed thus that the image of the terrorist group led by a clear leader can be presented. A accused that did admit participation to the class action, notably Dimitris Koufodinas world health organization took "full political responsibility for all of the group actions", presented the picture of the free horizontally unionised structure by owning microscopic cells & decisions taken by discussion & consensus. Under Greek law, 1 life term is up to the Xxv-season term & the convict will use for parole fallowing Xvi years. In case sentenced to additional than of these life term, he or even she must help at least Twenty years prior to existence eligible for parole. More sentences might process at a same time, using Xxv-season terms existence the maximal & by using parole imaginable when 3-fifths of this term come served. In September 17, 2004, a jailed began the hunger strike protesting the especially coarse conditions of their imprisonment & their centripetal isolation. Based on data from their statements, "bourgeois democracy" will require retaliatiinside on the children by enclosing the babies in "a prison within a prison."
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ICT: Revolutionary Organization 17 November History, structure, articles, updates and history of attacks. From The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Israel. FAS: Revolutionary Organization 17 November Description, activities, strength, area of operation and external aid. From the Federation of American Scientists. USA. November 17 Short overview of this terrorist active in Athens, and its targeting of missions of the US, NATO bases, Turkish missions, and some Greeks. |
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