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Panel Frees 82-Year-Old Greek Terrorist on Health Grounds

5/22/2026

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A panel approved Alexandros Giotopoulos’s 2025 health request, allowing the 82-year-old guerrilla leader to leave confinement and be released from Korydallos prison on Thursday.
He must stay in Greece, report to police and keep a designated address.
He was arrested in 2002, convicted in 2003 and sentenced to 17 life terms plus 25 years for actions that killed 23 people, including Richard Welch in 1975 and Stephen Saunders in 2000.

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A panel approved Alexandros Giotopoulos’s 2025 health request, allowing the 82-year-old guerrilla leader to leave confinement and be released from Korydallos prison on Thursday.
He must stay in Greece, report to police and keep a designated address.
He was arrested in 2002, convicted in 2003 and sentenced to 17 life terms plus 25 years for actions that killed 23 people, including Richard Welch in 1975 and Stephen Saunders in 2000.