Terrorist Paula Rupa released from prison after serving only 5 years

Paula Rupa, a member of the terrorist organization “Revolutionary Struggle”, was released from prison exactly on November 17, Polytechnic Day.

According to the information, the Council of Plenary Judges of Thebes granted her request for conditional release because she is the mother of a minor child. Let us recall that in April 2021 her sentence was reduced for the explosion at the Bank of Greece in 2014, for which the Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility.

Rupa’s sentence was changed from double life sentence (50 years) imprisonment up to six years and three months

Paula Rupa, now 54, was arrested in April 2010 along with five accomplices and her partner Nikos Maziotis for involvement in the terrorist organization Revolutionary Struggle. She was placed in Korydallos prison, from where she was released in October 2011 due to the expiration of 18 months – the maximum period of pre-trial detention.

In the following months, Rupa and her partner were present at the 5th tripartite Court of Criminal Appeal of Athens, where the trial of the Revolutionary Struggle case took place. However, in June 2012, Maziotis and Rupa did not show up at the Exarchia police station as they were supposed to and returned to their illegal status.

Rupa was on the list of most wanted terrorists

A reward of 1 million euros was announced for information about her and Maziotis. In July 2014, Nikos Maziotis, who, like Paula Rupa, was sentenced in absentia to 50 years in prison for participation in the “Revolutionary Struggle”, was spotted in Monastiraki and arrested after an armed clash with the police. Four people were wounded during the shootout. A few days later, anti-terrorism officers discovered the apartment in which the terrorist couple was hiding on Ypsilantou Street in Pefki, but not Paula Rupa, who managed to escape with her minor son, a laptop and a pistol.

Rupa reappeared a year later, in June 2015. Together with her accomplices, she robbed a bank branch located in the Sotiria hospital, taking 125 thousand euros from the cash register. In a text she wrote at the time and later published online, she admitted that she used part of the loot to organize the helicopter escape of Nikos Masiotis and members of the Fire Cell Conspiracy from Korydallos prison in February 2016. In 2016 she tried to hijack a helicopter and free her husband from prison, but the pilot resisted her. As a result, the escape attempt failed, but Rupa herself managed to escape again. Paula Rupa’s last “appearance” before her arrest in January 2017 in Ilioupoli was related to the armed robbery of a bank in Malesina in September 2016, with the loot of 180 thousand euros.

“Revolutionary Struggle” was founded in 2003. In addition to the shelling of the American embassy, ​​it is known for the attack on the Greek stock exchange building. The group’s activists are also accused in the murder of two members of the far-right Golden Dawn party. In addition, members of the group took responsibility for attacks on police officers and officials, bank robberies And explosions near the building of the Central Bank of Greece, as a result of which, fortunately, no one was injured.

PS Good Greek justice released an ideological terrorist and participant in several armed bank robberies, who served only a little more than 5 years. I wouldn’t be surprised if in a short time Paula Rupa will again be seen in terrorist attacks or armed bank robberies. The Greek authorities are following the path of least resistance, wanting to look merciful, but how will such mercy turn out for the people of the country?

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