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Analysts think over the manifesto sent by the Sect of Revolutionaries for the murder of Sokratis Giolias, while the anti-terrorist department continue to search the personal laptop of the 37-year-old journalist, hoping to find the trail - the reason that made him a victim.

The role that the terrorist organization wants to play, the mode of action and its capacity in terms of weapons, the information network, all this leads to the conclusion that it is not 18-year-old kids we are talking about, but much older people who have committed the murder and compiled the text of the seven-page manifesto, which was left in Nickea and taken by journalists of the Ta Nea newspaper.  

The journalist was killed by 16 bullets after the killers called him on the intercom and lured him to go out at the entrance of the building, because someone was stealing his car. This is what Giolias told to his pregnant wife before he left. But “what was exactly said by the intercom to be sure not only that he will come down, but he will come alone, not  accompanied by his wife, is something that is not necessary to publish for many reasons,” says the manifesto.

Analysts say this sentence is the key that could reveal details on the information network of the perpetrators. They believe that terrorists knew something more and did not make their victim come down only because of fictional attempts of theft. There is no answer to the question of who wrote the last post in the troktiko blog at 5:15 am, shortly before the murder. It is proved already that Giolias was supporting the blog. Giolias supported different blogs and according to the terrorists he used them as “tools of manipulation”. This is one of the reasons to put him in the blacklist.

Apart from the search of the computer and the analysis of the manifesto, the police authorities  ordered the police teams that run the streets to take all measures to protect themselves. Experts believe that the Sect of Revolutionaries is part of the new generation of terrorists, but there are similarities with the old groups like 17 November - as this ostentation of their weapons, but also the direct threats written in the manifesto against the scene witnesses.

Some of the conclusions made after the analysis of the manifesto are that those are people who want to disorganize the country and destroy its image abroad. They are presented as  experienced in terms of new skills in the use of weapons and new theoretical knowledge, say analysts citing excerpts from the text of the manifesto. According to them, the members of the organization have gathered after the events in December 2008, but certainly there are some of the old brigade among them.

New disclosures and surprises for the police are that Sokratis Giolias really had two guards, one of them even being a policeman. The manifesto contained the numbers of the motorcycles of the 37-year-old journalist’s bodyguards. The police checked who were the owners and found the details of an officer, who served in the guard of the President of the Supreme Court. He did not informed anyone that he guarded Giolias additionally and said that he had hired the second man who was his friend. When asked about his activities, he replied that he was friends with Giolias for years, when both were engaged in sports, and he guarded him as a friend. The police is investigating what exactly was the relationship between the two men and how the guard got involved in the protection of the journalist, and why Giolias was afraid so as to hire guards.

At the same time, foreign media paid most attention to those passages of the manifesto which refer to tourism. According to Reuters, the Greek armed organization does not directly threaten the tourists, but sent a message to those who intend to visit Greece, warning them that “the country is no longer a safe place, but a war zone.”

After Greek press releases