Greece’s Ulrike Meinhof: Pola Roupa and the revolutionary struggle
Abstract
© 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Pola Roupa’s arrest in 2016 was the final nail in the coffin of Revolutionary Struggle, the first guerrilla group to emerge on Greece’s terrorist landscape after the 2002 collapse of 17 November, the country’s premier terrorist organisation for almost three decades and one of Europe’s longest-running terror gangs. Drawing on the judicial investigation findings, courtroom testimonies, RS communiqués and interviews with counter-terrorism officials, this article tells the story of Pola Roupa, the first female leader of a Greek terrorist group in an attempt to understand the political reasons and motivational factors that led to her involvement in terrorism. At the same time, the article hopefully contributes to the study and understanding of women and terrorism by providing an insight into the role and experience of a female militant inside Greece’s gender-conservative and overwhelmingly male-dominated armed struggle movement.Citation
Kassimeris, G. (2019) Greece’s Ulrike Meinhof: Pola Roupa and the revolutionary struggle, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2019.1620470Publisher
Informa UK LimitedJournal
Studies in Conflict and TerrorismAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2019.1620470Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
1057-610XEISSN
1521-0731ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/1057610X.2019.1620470
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