Greek police suspect far-left group killed journalist http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ikPbC-cTozxIKNZQFZgNHeEB6FuA
(AFP) – 2 hours ago ATHENS — Police in Greece said a far-left extremist group was likely behind the fatal shooting of a journalist early Monday. The authorities said 37-year-old Socratis Guiolias was shot with a pair of nine-millimetre handguns which the Revolutionary Sect group had used to kill an anti-terrorist officer last year. "Examination of 16 nine-millimetre Parabellum cartridges found on the scene of today's homicide...shows they were fired by two weapons used in the activities of the Revolutionary Sect group," the police said in a statement. Guiolias was killed by at least three assailants in front of his home in the Athens district of Ilioupoli around 5:20 am (0320 GMT), the police said. According to initial reports, the gunmen asked the journalist to come out of his house, claiming someone had stolen his car, and then opened fire. Investigators had earlier said they are looking into all possible motives for the killing, including whether by criminals or extremists. Guiolias was a private radio manager and had previously worked on one of Greece's main investigative journalism television shows, news reports said. Revolutionary Sect, which appeared after police fatally shot a teenage boy in December 2008, had in June last year shot dead an anti-terror officer guarding a witness in a left-wing militants' trial. The outfit in February 2009 had also machine-gunned a police station and the headquarters of a private television channel in Athens and later warned of further attacks on police and journalists. Most of the shots against Guiolias were fired from the gun that killed officer Nektarios Savas last June, the police said. The second gun had been used in all three prior attacks. The casings also matched a single cartridge found on the grave of the police shooting victim, 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, whose death in 2008 sparked violent protests across the country. ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
