Nikos Dertilis

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Nikos Dertilis was a Colonel in charge of the forces which surrounded the Polytechnic School of Athens during the Polytechnic Uprising on 17 November 1973. He was the one who gave the order to invade the University and himself shot and killed a student in cold blood. After the collapse of the Junta he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He currently serves his sentence in the Korydallos prisons in Athens along with Brigadier Dimitrios Ioannides, as both have refused to ask for pardon.