Panagoulis went into self-exile in Florence, Italy, in order to continue the resistance. In August 1973, after four and a half years in jail, he benefited from a general amnesty that the military regime granted to all political prisoners during a failed attempt by Papadopoulos to liberalize his regime. He reportedly refused amnesty offers from the junta. He was eventually placed in solitary confinement at Bogiati, from which he unsuccessfully attempted to escape on several occasions. He was soon re-arrested and sent temporarily to the camp of Goudi. As a result of political pressure from the international community, the junta refrained from executing him and instead incarcerated him at the Bogiati (Boyati) Military Prison near Athens on 25 November 1968.Īlexandros Panagoulis refused to cooperate with the junta, and was subjected to physical and psychological torture. Panagoulis was put on trial by the Military Court on 3 November 1968, condemned to death with other members of National Resistance on 17 November 1968, and subsequently transported to the island of Aegina for the sentence to be carried out. He also stated that he had no regrets about his attempt to kill Papadopoulos as "he destroyed the legal government - he abolished the liberties of the people". In an interview held after his liberation, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci quoted Panagoulis as saying: I didn’t want to kill a man. The attempt failed and Panagoulis was arrested. He returned to Greece where, with the help of his collaborators, he organized the 13 August 1968 assassination attempt against Papadopoulos, close to Varkiza. He went into self-exile in Cyprus in order to develop a plan of action. He deserted from the Greek military because of his democratic convictions and founded the organization National Resistance. After the fall of the Colonels' regime and the restoration of parliamentary rule, Panagoulis became the Secretary-General of E.DI.N., on 3 September 1974.Īlexandros Panagoulis participated actively in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels. The organisation later became known as Hellenic Democratic Youth (E.DI.N.). He joined the youth organisation of the Centre Union party (E.K.), known as O.N.E.K., under the leadership of Georgios Papandreou. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens in the School of Electrical Engineering.įrom his teenage years, Alexandros Panagoulis was inspired by democratic values. Panagoulis spent part of his childhood during the Axis occupation of Greece in the Second World War on this island. ![]() His father was from Divri ( Lampeia) in Elis (Western Peloponnese) while his mother was from the Ionian island of Lefkada. He was the second son of Vassilios Panagoulis, an officer in the Greek Army, and his wife Athena, and the brother of Georgios Panagoulis, also a Greek Army officer and victim of the Colonels' regime, and Efstathios, who became a politician. ![]() After the restoration of democracy, he was elected to the Greek parliament as a member of the Centre Union (E.K.).īiography Family, childhood and education Īlexandros Panagoulis was born in the Glyfada neighbourhood of Athens. He became famous for his attempt to assassinate dictator Georgios Papadopoulos on 13 August 1968, but also for the torture to which he was subjected during his detention. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels (1967–1974) in Greece. Alexander was transferred to the see of Mantinia and Kinouria and enthroned on Januas the Metropolitan of Mantinia and Kinouria.Alexandros Panagoulis ( Greek: Αλέξανδρος Παναγούλης 2 July 1939 – ) was a Greek politician and poet. ![]() Alexander was elected to the episcopate and was consecrated the metropolitan of the Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vasilioson on May 5, 1984. In 1976, Father Alexander was appointed the secretary of the conciliar courts. He studied theology in Athens before his ordination as a deacon in 1968. ![]() Metropolitan Alexander was born in 1936 in Papari, Arcadia, in the central part of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. He has been the ruling hierarch of the metropolis since 1995. His Eminence Alexander (Papadopoulos) of Mantineia and Kynouria is the Metropolitan of the Metropolis of Mantineia and Kynouria under the jurisdiction of the Church of Greece.
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