Last Act in a Violent Drama? The Trial of Greece's Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Abstract
By strange coincidence, Greece's Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17 N) met its end almost exactly a year after Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorists felled New York's twin towers, when the group's leader of operations, Dimitris Koufodinas, turned himself in to the police after months on the run, on September 5, 2002. The capture of Koufodinas and his group marked the demise of the last and most stubborn of a generation of ideological terrorists whose campaigns caused serious political and security problems in Western Europe for more than a quarter of a century. Drawing on the judicial investigation findings and the courtroom testimonies of the terrorists, this article attempts to tell the stories of the four most senior group members in order to understand what led them to act in the way they did and, more crucially, what kept them inside a terrorist organization with no prospects and community support for so long. (Informaworld)Citation
Terrorism and Political Violence, 18(1): 137-57Journal
Terrorism and Political ViolenceType
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
0954655315561836
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/095465590953479