Police in Greece have said that there is ballistic evidence linking today's assassination of the British military attaché in Athens to a guerrilla group that has been active since the mid-seventies. Brigadier Stephen Saunders, who was 53, was shot in his car while driving to the British Embassy. The bullets are reported to have been the same calibre as ammunition used by the group, which calls itself November 17. The group, which is anti-Western and anti-NATO, has killed 23 people since 1975. Brigadier Stephens had served as the British Army's Deputy Commander in Derry.
Greek police said two assailants on motorcycles attacked the car of the military attaché shooting him a number of times. The attack took place in the northern suburb of Chalandri this morning. The Ministry of Defence in London confirmed that Brigadier Stephen Saunders had served in the North as the Deputy Commander of the British army in Derry and had been decorated. He had been awarded the Queens Commendation for Valuable Service. The British government has urged Greece to track down his killers.
