One of the most prominent convicted urban terrorists in Greece, Alexandros Giotopoulos, has received approval by a relevant judicial council for release from prison after serving 24 years for crimes linked to the now eradicated far-left terror group “November 17”.

Giotopoulos, 82, was serving 17 life sentences plus an additional 25 years in prison for a variety of felony convictions. His release came after a fifth application for parole, as the four previous requests had been rejected.

The judicial council imposed restrictive parole conditions, including a travel ban, mandatory appearances at a local police station and compulsory residence at a residence in the east Athens district of Vyronas.

The French-educated Giotopoulos was arrested on the small Dodecanese Island of Lipsi in the summer of 2002.

He consistently denied all charges and any involvement with the terrorist group throughout the exhaustive investigation and high-profile trial.

Since 2022, he had been granted regular prison furlough, which authorities said he complied with.

A trio of convicted N17 members remain incarcerated, including arch-assassin Dimitris Koufodinas and brothers Savvas Xiros and Christodoulos Xiros.

November 17 was modern Greece’s most notorious urban guerrilla gang, active from 1975 until its dismantling in 2002. The group carried out a series of assassinations, bombings and rocket attacks targeting Greek politicians, businessmen, police officers and foreign diplomats, including American, British and Turkish diplomats and military attaches. Greek authorities were led to group after a botched bombing at the port of Piraeus in 2002.