The lifeless body of Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias was destined to remain unburied for 20 whole days. In 1852, authorities beheaded the dead (!) assassin of Minister of Education Nikolaos Korfiotakis. A regular at a gambling club murders Prime Minister Theodoros Deligiannis on the steps of the Parliament. The ear and palm of the ruthless perpetrator who fatally wounded King George I are kept in a museum in Athens! The executioners of Sifis Vardinogiannis disguised themselves as German military police. Christos Ladas died after throwing a hand grenade inside the ministerial limousine, while MP Grigoris Lambrakis suffered fatal blows in front of 180 police officers.

20 + 1 political assassinations that shocked and marked Greece!

Oxy Publications present the thorough work of award-winning journalist Georgios Sarri, Political Assassinations in Greece! Crimes that aimed to change the world - and in some cases, succeeded.

The reader is confronted with the history of political violence, reading thoroughly documented and comprehensive information about the most significant assassinations from the establishment of the Greek state until today. At the same time, having passed only a few years since the most recent of these assassinations, it becomes easily perceptible that the era of politically motivated crimes is far from over.