Convicted Greek terrorist ends 66-day starvation strike

Leftist Greek militant Dimitiris Koufodinas is ending a 66-day starvation strike that he started as a part of a requirement for a jail switch, his lawyer stated on Sunday.
“He chooses life,” Ioanna Kourtovik stated to Reuters information company.
Koufodinas, 63, is being handled in an intensive care in hospital close to the Domokos high-security jail in central Greece after struggling kidney failure final week.
Koufodinas was nicknamed “Poison Hand” for the murders he dedicated as a part of the now dismantled November 17 group.

He is serving 11 consecutive life sentences plus 25 years for his murders, which he has by no means denied.
He had been desirous to be transferred to the Korydallos jail in Athens.
Killing marketing campaign
November 17, named after the date of a scholar rebellion in 1973 in opposition to the junta that was then in energy in Greece, carried out quite a few assassinations for 3 a long time earlier than its leaders had been arrested in 2002.
The killings focused US army personnel and overseas diplomats, together with Greek politicians and industrialists.

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Among these killed was present Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsokakis’ brother-in-law, Pavlos Bakoyiannis, who died on the hand of Koufodinas and one other man in September 1989.
Angry assertion
In a press release on Sunday, Koufodinas launched a veiled assault on Mitsotakis, who comes from a political background, slamming the “governing family that has shown how ruthless it is in debasing the laws and the constitution.”
The assault is probably going a response to the truth that Mitsotakis’ conservative authorities has repealed laws by the earlier leftist administration that allowed Koufodinas to serve his time period at a minimum-security jail.

In November 2017, there was widespread outrage in Greece and overseas after Koufodinas was given two days’ go away from jail below the extra lenient circumstances.

Numerous protests have been held by sympathizers and civil rights activists in latest weeks accusing the federal government of unnecessarily harsh remedy of Koufodinas. Some supporters have even carried out arson and vandalism assaults in latest days.