January 28, 2013. Nikolas Dertilis, the last colonel of the Junta (1967-1974) has died in Athens. Dertilis spent the past 38 years in prison.
November 18, 1973. Colonel Dertilis is in a military jeep, outside the destroyed gate of the Polytechnic. On the opposite side of the road, at the corner of Patision and Stournari street, police-men are beating up a young student. Momentarily, he escapes. Dertilis pulls a handgun and shoots. “The young man fell down like a chicken”, testifies Dertilis’ driver, then 21-year old Antonis Agritelis, one year later – and he continues: “after the member, Dertilis re-entered the jeep as if nothing had happened and, patting me on the back, he told me: “what do you say, eh? A 45-year old man, and I got him in the head, with one bullet!”… (Michail Mirogiannis, greek original)


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This is the Greek Thatcher is dead moment.
Stylianos Pattakos turned 100 in November and is still alive. The reports read that he was the last of imprisoned coup leaders. Par for the course for a bunch of idiots.
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