Alexandros Giotopoulos
Alexandros Giotopoulos is a convicted terrorist, currently serving seventeen life sentences plus 25 years imprisonment. He was found guilty in 2003 of leading the Marxist Greek urban guerrilla group Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
17N was responsible for a series of armed robberies, bombings, and assassinations of prominent Greek and foreign politicians, journalists, diplomats, and businessmen that left twenty-three people dead. Giotopoulos was identified as its leader after the arrest and confession of Savvas Xiros, another member of 17N, following a failed bombing attempt on a hydrofoil shipping company in Piraeus.
Giotopoulos appealed his conviction, and described himself as the victim of "an Anglo-American conspiracy". At the start of his appeal, in 2005, he received support from left-wing organisations and personalities in France, where he was born, including Alain Krivine and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. However, on May 3, 2007, his conviction and those of his 17N accomplices were sustained by the court of appeals.
Alexandros Giotopoulos was an opponent of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. He is the son of Dimitris Giotopoulos, once a secretary of Leon Trotsky, also known as Witte, who was a leader of the Greek Trotskyist party of archeiomarxists.
