Pavlos Bakoyannis ( el, Παύλος Μπακογιάννης; February 10, 1935 in Velota,

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– September 26, 1989 in

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) was a liberal

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who was well known for his broadcasts against the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 on

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radio. He was shot and killed in the front entrance of his office in 1989 by members of the terrorist group

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Biography

Bakoyannis was a member of the

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party, for which, at the time of his murder, he was parliamentary leader in the Hellenic Parliament. He was married to

Dora Bakoyannis Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni ( el, Θεοδώρα "Ντόρα" Μπακογιάννη; ; ''née'' Mitsotakis; el, Μητσοτάκη, links=no; born May 6, 1954) is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece ...

, daughter of

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. After the murder of Pavlos, she passed a law prohibiting the publication of terrorist groups' post-attack manifestos in Greek newspapers. Dora Bakoyannis has since claimed that the bill was a mistake, and did not attempt to re-establish it after its repeal in 1993. Dimitris Koufodinas, Iraklis Kostaris and

Alexandros Giotopoulos Alexandros Giotopoulos ( el, Αλέξανδρος Γιωτόπουλος; born 1944 in Paris) is a convicted terrorist, currently serving seventeen life sentences plus 25 years imprisonment. He was found guilty in 2003 of leading the Marxist-Lenini ...

were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder by an Athens court in December 2003. Savvas Xiros and Vassilis Tzortzatos both received 18-year sentences for the murder.

Venizelos/Mitsotakis family tree

References

External links

"Tür zu"
Article for the persecuted by the

Greek military junta of 1967-1974 The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels, . Also known within Greece as just the Junta ( el, η Χούντα, i Choúnta, links=no, ), the Dictatorship ( el, η Δικτατορία, i Diktatoría, links=no, ) or the Seven Years ( el, η Ε ...

Pavlos Bakoyannis and Dimitris Soulas. '' Der Spiegel'', 1968-09-23. 1935 births 1989 murders in Greece 1989 deaths Assassinated Greek politicians Deaths by firearm in Greece Greek MPs 1989 (June–November) Victims of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November Greek terrorism victims Terrorism deaths in Greece People murdered in Greece Mitsotakis family People from Evrytania {{paramilitary-action-stub