Still no organization has taken the responsibility for yesterday’s insolent murder of the policeman in the central Athenian neighborhood Patisia but ballistic experts believe it is done by the Revolutionary Sect. One of the weapons used yesterday certainly belongs to the terrorist organization and has been used in other attacks as well. Yesterday, 41 year old Nektarios Savas was shot in his car pointblank with 24 bullets, while guarding the home of a woman, who is a witness in the case against the terrorist organization Revolutionary Fight. His funeral is today on Naxos island, where he was born.

The Greek public comments that the murder was exceptionally brutal. Criminologists analyze the actions of the terrorists and speak of “third generation terrorists,” who do not have any ideological platform, compared their forerunners from November 17^th – they cannot get the approval of the public and at the same time are thirsty for blood. This is the first time when terrorists fire so many bullets at their victim and the first time they shoot in the head.

The Revolutionary Sect firstly appeared on February 3^rd 2009, when they attacked the police station in Koridalos. Two weeks later they attack the ALTER TV building. In their manifests after the attack, the Sect clearly points its enemies – the police and journalists. Yesterday the terrorists successfully achieved one of their goals. Criminologists are afraid that their second aim will not be too late.

Meanwhile, right protecting and police syndicates are raising the question about huge gaps in the defense of witness programs. Together with two of his colleagues, the murdered policeman was guarding the house of Sophia Kiriakidou – key witness in the case against National Revolutionary Fight. The two other policemen were on night shift and he was alone during the day. The whole neighborhood knew them because they have been working there for 10 years. Everybody knew their names, who are they protecting, everybody knew why they are sitting in a car, which never moves. The policeman, who was shot was alone during the day and was not protected by anyone. So it is logical that he was a victim of a terrorist attack. Syndicate members are speaking of underestimating the policemen’s job. Those three policemen had asked to be transferred several times but their seniors had refused.

The former minister of internal affairs Mihalis Chrisohoidis, during whose cabinet the members of November 17 were caught said that from the 820 people, who had worked at the Anti-terrorism services and who had passed a training in Scotland Yard, only 14 are still here now. According to him right now the Greek police is not ready to deal with this third generation of terrorists.