DORA ANTONIOU

Members of the November 17 terrorist organization kept records of all their attacks as well as plans for others which for whatever reason did not take place.

In the Damareos Street safe house, police found several floppy disks containing such details, and far more on the hard disks of the two computers seized. According to sources, detailed records of long-term surveillance of specific sites and persons were found. What impressed the police most were the details of the persons’ movements, right down to the last second. When watching a site, the observers jotted down everything: the entry and exit of persons, change of guard, movements around the building; all with the precise times noted next to them, even a guard’s 10-minute nap, the types of vehicles entering and leaving the premises, their color, license plates and drivers’ descriptions.

These details provided many answers to the way the group’s members gained access to information and organized their attacks — two aspects on which the group’s myth was built. That is why some of these details are expected to be released.

Results of the ballistic tests on the MP5 semi-automatic weapons, just some of the 5,000 objects seized at the safe houses, were expected to be released this week. According to sources, these weapons were used by the group during robberies.

The police are still focusing on the fingerprints taken from the Damareos Street apartment and which match those found in Yotopoulos’s island home, but not the prints of any of the detainees.

Police are also reviewing the role played by Theologos Psaradellis throughout the organization’s history, as it has emerged from the evidence that he played a much larger part than was originally thought, and over a longer period of time, perhaps until the group’s most recent phase.

A handwriting analysis of the group’s members is also expected to shed light on their roles, given the handwritten notes and corrections to printed material found at both safe houses, particularly in Patmou Street.

Apart from Yotopoulos’s handwriting, which has been found on a document in the Patmou Street apartment, no examination has been made of the handwriting of any of the others arrested. In the evidence, two main samples of writing appear. From what they have learnt so far, police believe that these belonged to Dimitris Koufodinas and Savvas Xeros.

Within the next few days, police are expected to ask for a court order enabling them to take blood samples from all those arrested, to compare with the genetic material found in the safe houses.