Dora Bakoyannis: The revelation about Koufondina and the difficult moment of her assassination attempt

For the moment he was found in the same place as Dimitris Koufontinas before his arrest, when he did not yet know that he was a member of it, about what he experienced with her attempted murder in 2002, but also the reaction of Constantine Mitsotakis to the news of Andrew Papandreou’s death, he spoke to One on Monday night (18.11.24). Initially, Dora Bakoyannis described that she learned about the arrest of members of “November 17” by Michael Chrysohoidis: “Michael Chrysohoides called me and said: “Turn on the TV and see which is November 17th”. And we turn on the TV and… I get it. I see something… people,” he said. He continued: “I somewhere in my mind had formed that these people would be kind of, I know, some people thinking, intellectuals. I don’t even know what I had in my head. And I see this and I think: They killed Paul. That is, it was a double shock.” “Then we realized that one had been seen before in Karpenisi. We went to a restaurant. The restaurants in Karpenisi are 5 tables. Now, when I came in, I was waving at the first table, second table, now what is it? What’s a crab is its juice? And there was a table in the middle, which looked at us mute and with a strange look. Koufondinas has some eyes too intense. I remember, I was with Isidore sitting across the street. And he says: “Do you see this man across the street? I say, “I see him”. He says to me, “It doesn’t suit us at all”. And we stayed there. How to imagine that two years later this man would be Koufondinas,” he stressed. “Extremely difficult time my assassination attempt” “Extremely difficult” described the moment of the attempted murder against her in 2002 after the municipal election. “The bullet passes through the car, I bend to get my bag, I see the bullet, it passes George’s neck and goes against the columns of Olympian Zeus. For a long time I didn’t understand what happened, at first I thought the cell phone was blown up” he described how he experienced the attack on her. “Until I go to the office without calling my children, I call my father and say ‘I am well’ and Constantine Mitsotakis’s answer was ‘no way, no killing women’. He had a denial. I went through a phase I didn’t know if I wanted to go on. There I became a big wave of love.” Speaking of her father, Constantine Mitsotakis, Dora Bakoyannis said that “it was far ahead of his time. In 1993 he made a desperate attempt not to end up in the IMF. He knew very well financially, so he was often unpleasant. I was telling him during the period of Karamnlis government, don’t start the disaster again. Mitsotakis was shut up when we entered the IMF and the channels were playing his statement to Andreas Papandreou.” “My father was a blessed man. He reached nearly 100, rightly lived his life, lived an important recognition, had his children around him, didn’t want to go anymore. She left with the absolute calm of the man who says what I could do,” Mrs. Bakoyannis continued. He even revealed, “when Papandreou died Mitsotakis was a mess, he did not believe it. This rivalry of the two also involved one respect for one another.”