The declaration about Giolias does not look like the others the "Sect" has made

A top secret report of the Division of Criminal Investigation department of Police was revealed by “THEMA” newspaper, changing the scenery of the facts on the case of murdered journalist Socrates Gkiolias.

Forensic scientists, in a six page report express profound doubts about whether the notice sent by the “Revolutionary Sect” is genuine. Police officers specialized in analysis and identification of terrorist texts have concluded that none of the criteria needed to validate the authenticity of the declaration, fits the previous three sent by the same organization.

The storage and sending of the text (written, and not through a CD), the style ang language, the font used, the alignment and paragraph are, according to the report, different in this declaration compared to the previous three sent by the “Revolutionary Sect”, while, for the first time, the senders chose a different envelope, when the previous three had the exact same one. Questions are raised by the fact that the report was formed months after the declaration was sent, even though in similar cases, officials act with the utmost haste. The delay even resulted in losing valuable evidence from the photograph of the weapons, which was included in the envelope. According to experts who know what a delay might mean in such cases, if the investigation had been carried out immediately, they would have been able to even identify the printer used by the perpetrators to print the seven declaration pages and the weapons photograph.

They find no relevance

On the 15th of February 2011, expert graphologists of Criminal Investigation Division of the Hellenic Police had formed a report which bears the “Top Secret” seal and refers to the notice sent to an afternoon newspaper in order for the “Sect” to assume responsibility for Socrates Giolias' murder. The language used in the report is similar to the one used by police experts, and the investigation is based on the fact that terrorist organizations do not change the characteristics of their declarations, since they are part of their signature, which verifies the validity of their hits. A characteristic example is that of the “17th of November” organization's typewriter, which was never found, even after the criminals had been apprehended.  The “Sect” kept true to this process in the first three declarations it sent. Specifically, as described in the report, the first three declarations sent by the terrorist organization were in digital form (CD), contrasted by the one in question which was a 7-page printed document. This fact alone is enough to raise important questions, as to the aforementioned tactics used by these organizations.

The second chapter with the differences between the declaration of the assumption of responsibility for the murder of journalist Socrates Giolias pertains to the computer and text-writer used. According to the report, the fact that the last “Sect” declaration used different fonts compared to the other three, is noticed for the first time, while the whole text's “image” is completely different.  As characteristically stated, there are different paragraphs, alignments, etc. These characteristics are not changed by terrorist organizations, according to experts, and the only thing that was similar was the title and the signature of the organization itself.

The third point pertains to the linguistic forensics examination of the four declarations. Through analysis, it is proven that the text concerning the Giolias murder is different to the other three. It is underlined that “They do not allow for any scientifically valid linguistic correlation which would otherwise prove or disprove a common or non-common source”. In layman's terms, special forensics lab analysts found no evidence to prove that the declaration in question comes from the same source as the other three.


An important fact is the sixth conclusion, and though written in a scientific-police language, clarifies everything: “Further handwriting relationship in the current evidence with files of pending cases of our department, has not been verified”. In simple terms, the handwriting research showed that this notice bears no common elements with the previous three in the service's files.

Last but not least, an important detail is the fact that the envelope containing the declaration was different than the, previously, identical envelopes of the three prior declarations. Valid sources state that Hellenic Police officials are doubtful on whether the declaration was sent by the “Sect”.It just means that someone who knew details about the case tried to copy the “Sect” and pin the hit on them. All the aforementioned changes to their declaration cannot be explained otherwise.