Greek far-left terror leader returns to prison
Alexandros Giotopoulos, the convicted leader of a far-left Greek militant group, was returned to prison on June 16 after Greece’s Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that had granted him conditional release.
The 82-year-old Giotopoulos was released from Athens’ Korydallos Prison on May 21 after serving roughly 24 years behind bars.
However, Greece’s highest court ruled that prisoners serving multiple life sentences must complete at least 25 years in custody before becoming eligible for conditional release.
Following the ruling, Giotopoulos was taken to the Piraeus Appeals Prosecutor’s Office to complete the necessary legal procedures before being transferred back to Korydallos Prison, where he was placed in a special detention unit.
