Alexandros Giotopoulos

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Alexandros Giotopoulos ( Greek Αλέξανδρος Γιωτόπουλος ; * 1944 in Paris ) is a former leader of the no longer active terrorist organization November 17th (17N) in Greece .

Born in Paris in 1944, he returned to Greece with his parents from exile in France in 1947 after the end of the war . Giotopoulos grew up in a Trotskyist family , his father Dimitris Giotopoulos was the most famous supporter of Trotsky in Greece and is said to have been in personal contact with him. Shortly after the so-called Colonel coup in 1967, Alexandros Giotopoulos fled to Paris , where he continued his studies in economics, which he had started in Athens. There he worked with other exiled Greeks, among them the Marxist theorist and political scientist Nicos Poulantzas . With the beginning of theStudent riots In 1968, Alexandros Giotopoulos became interested in armed uprisings. In 1968 he and other exiled Greeks founded the Trotskyist-Marxist group May 29th. Giotopoulos later taught as a professor in Paris. From the early 1990s he was linked by the FBI as a suspect with the terrorist organization. On July 18, 2002, he was arrested on the island of Lipsi , on which he is said to have bought a house under a false name. In 2003 he was sentenced to 21 life imprisonment . The appealed appeal revised the judgment against Giotopoulos in May 2007 to 17 life imprisonment. The appeal process began in December 2005 and lasted 246 days. Giotopoulos himself denied all allegations during the proceedings.

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  1. ↑ BBC News : Analysis: Greek verdict reaction . December 8, 2003
  2. ↑ BBC News : Greek militants jailed for life . December 17, 2003
  3. ↑ Vorarlberg Online: Terrorist gets 17 times for life . May 9, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Giotopoulos, Alexandros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Γιωτόπουλος, Αλέξανδρος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek leader of the terrorist organization November 17th
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France