The US embassy in Athens on Friday negatively reacted to this week’s petition a notorious urban terrorist to be freed from a Greek prison due to serious health reasons, a portion of which were incurred when a bomb he was planting exploded in his hands in 2002.
A Tweet posted on the embassy’s Twitter page noted that “…A decision to let Savvas Xiros out of prison before serving his sentence as handed down by the Greek justice system would be a disservice to the memory of the American mission members he killed and their families.”
The posting was accompanied by a photograph of the plaque on the embassy’s ground displaying the names of the five US diplomats and military personnel assassinated by the once elusive ultra-leftist “17November” terrorist group, beginning in 1975.
