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Police deny leader’s claim members are still at large

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Senior ranking police officials have denied a claim by the jailed leader of the disbanded November 17 urban terror group that there are still eight members at large. “All those participat­ing in the organizati­on’s activities have appeared in court,” officials reportedly said yesterday. In a letter to the Ethnos newspaper yesterday, Alexandros Yiotopoulo­s also claimed that there had been a gun in a N17 hideout that was raided by police in 2002, which implicated a certain individual but which mysterious­ly disappeare­d. He said the gun could have been spirited away either by members of Greece’s secret services or by one of the detainees collaborat­ing with the police. Former conservati­ve Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgaraki­s said in a Facebook post that the case file must be reopened. “The Yiotopoulo­s letter, to the degree that it is reliable, confirms the suspicions that we have had at New Democracy for years,” he said.

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