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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-01-05
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[01] Terrorist group members Roupa, Maziotis, start hunger strike to
protest son's custody
[01] Terrorist group members Roupa, Maziotis, start hunger strike to
protest son's custody
Convicted members of the terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle,
Panayiota Roupa and her partner Nikos Maziotis started a hunger strike
on Thursday, claiming the police is refusing to hand over custody of
their six-year-old son to Roupa's relatives as revenge for "choosing
the armed struggle".
Roupa was arrested early on Thursday, after being on the run since July
2012 when she disappeared with Maziotis while on conditional leave after
serving the maximum of 18 months in pre-trial custody.
"I'm starting now a hunger strike in order to give the child now to my
mother and sister. As for me, I will remain their enemy until I die and
they will never break me," she said in a message read out by her sister
who protested outside Attica police headquarters earlier in the day.
Police said earlier the boy is in "protective custody" at the juvenile
protection division, under the supervision of a prosecutor.
She had been sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2013 for participating
in the terror group until 2010. There is also an arrest warrant dating
from 2014, concerning, among other crimes, the charge of founding and
running a terrorist organization, manufacturing, supplying and possessing
explosives, and carrying out bomb attacks. A separate court last year
gave her another 11-year jail term for the explosion of a makeshift bomb
outside the Bank of Greece headquarters
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