Heavy sentences for members of Conspiracy of Fire terrorist group

An Athens criminal court on Monday sentenced 15 young people accused of being members of terrorist group Conspiracy of Fire with sentences that range anywhere from five to 25 years. Some of the members had already been convicted of other crimes, a report on the online To Vima news service said.

Three of the accused received 25 years in jail; another three members were sentenced to 24 years and 2 months; one member was sentenced to 21 years and 9 months; one other to 20 years; another member to 19 years; another member to 16 years in absentia; two other members were sentenced to 14 years; one to 6 years; and finally one member was sentenced to only five years.

One member, a woman, was acquitted of being part of the organization, but was sentenced to six years as an accessory to several counts of weapons possession and a 16th defendant, male, was also acquitted of membership in the terrorist organization but received 6 months (suspended for three years), for the misdemeanor of a weapon possession.