Guerrilla Group Leaders Sentenced to Life Terms

A Greek court handed down multiple life sentences to the mastermind and the chief hit man of the November 17 guerrilla group, who were found guilty last week of hundreds of crimes including murder, bombings and bank robbery.

Mastermind Alexandros Giotopoulos, 59, was given 21 life sentences, the longest term in Greek legal history. The jobless mathematics professor, a student radical in Paris in the 1960s, had maintained his innocence and vowed to appeal.

Dimitris Koufodinas, a 45-year-old beekeeper who was the group’s hit man, got 13 life terms.