Anarchist groups protesting convictions of members of Greece’s November 17 terrorist group demonstrated in downtown Athens on Thursday and claimed responsibility for overnight firebomb attacks. About 250 mostly young people, some wearing hoods and wielding wooden bats, chanted “Freedom for the November 17 fighters” and “the desire from freedom is stronger than any prison cell,” as hundreds of riot police watched. Police blocked a road leading to the American Embassy before the demonstrators dispersed peacefully. Fifteen members of the far-left group November 17 were convicted Monday following a nine-month trial. Four other suspects were cleared and released. Once Greece’s most elusive and feared terrorist cell, November 17 is blamed for 23 murders and dozens of rockets and bomb attacks over 27 years. Full Story
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