In a statement released late on Thursday, the US Department of State, expressed “serious concerns” that Dimitris Koufodinas could use the two-day parole to abscond. “Our embassy in Athens has conveyed our serious concerns about this decision to the government of Greece,” spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters. “We respect the decision of Greek justice, but we are deeply disappointed by the decision to grant a furlough from prison to a terrorist murderer,” she tweeted in Greek. Visibly greyer after 15 years behind bars, the 59-year-old opened his arms wide as he was greeted enthusiastically outside the prison gate. “The government is being attacked for a decision [that] is not political,” he told Ant 1 TV.

Source: The Guardian November 10, 2017 15:30 UTC