Xiros' veritable IED factory

Counter-terrorism squad officers said that evidence found at the seaside house used by Xiros in Perachora, Loutraki included:

• Two pairs of fake vehicle registration plates
• Four gas canisters
• 89 reels of explosives
• 45 plastic containers filled with an unidentified white substance in solid form, possibly the explosive ammonium nitrate
• Flares
• Two sealed sacks of industrial ammonium nitrate, weighing 40 kilos
• One sack of a granulous substance, against suspected ammonium nitrate
• A hand-gun with a bullet in the chamber and specially adapted clip with six bullets.
• 26 glass bottles labelled 'Nitromethames', some empty and some not
• Five plastic bottles that contained a liquid and were labelled 'methanol'
• Two stolen vehicles with fake number plates that were confiscated and sent on to the police forensics department for investigation.

In the fugitive terrorist's hideout in Anavyssos, police also found the following evidence:

• A map book containing hand-written notes, possibly for an escape route
• Six mobile phones
• Sim cards and Sim card components
• Memory cards
• A silencer
• A mobile phone attached to cables and a battery that could have been used as part of an explosive device
• 475 9mm bullets
• 173 combat rifle bullets
• USB stick
• Two bins of components for an automated watering system specially adapted with nails, possibly for use in puncturing vehicle tires.
• A piece of paper with a hand-written note of the vehicle registration plate 'YPX-4397' that was the same as one of the fake vehicle registration plates found in the Loutraki house.

The investigation was carried out following the recapture of the fugitive terrorist Xiros last Saturday, several months after he had violated his prison furlough.

He has already been sentenced to six times life imprisonment and 25 years for his role in the notorious terrorist group 17N, which involved other members of his family as well.