Acid Political Assassinations in Greece

The lifeless body of the governor Ioannis Kapodistrias was to remain buried for 20 whole days. In 1852 the authorities arrested the dead (!) murderer of the Minister of Education Nikolaos Korfiotakis. A patron of a gambling club slaughters Prime Minister Theodoros Diligiannis on the steps of the Parliament. The ear and the palm of the bearded attacker who mortally wounded King George I are kept in... a museum in Athens! The executioners of Sifis Vardinogiannis had disguised themselves as German soldiers. Christos Ladas cooled down after throwing a grenade inside the ministerial limousine, while the MP Grigoris Lambrakis received the fatal blows in front of 180 policemen. 20 + 1 political murders that shocked and marked Greece! Oxy Publications presents the thorough work of award-winning journalist Georgios Sarris, Political Murders in Greece! Crimes that were meant to change the world – and in some cases they did. The reader is confronted with the history of violence with a political sign, reading documented and with completeness all the elements of the most important murders from the foundation of the Greek state until today. At the same time, having passed just a few years since the most recent of the murders, it is easy to see that the era of politically motivated crimes is far from over.