Seventy-six years ago today, on September 12, 1948, Greece, in the midst of a civil war, experienced its first hijacking. Six members of the EPON (United Panhellenic Organization of Youth) seized a TAE aircraft and flew it to Skopje, where they disembarked without harming anyone. The press of the time unleashed a frenzy of misinformation, and the young communists were sentenced to death in a trial held in their absence.
This gripping story is recounted through the testimonies of the plane’s passengers in the newspapers of the era, which hastily linked the six EPON members to the murder of American journalist George Polk. “Time in Greece” and Nikolas Angelidis reveal unknown aspects and new evidence of the case that made headlines worldwide through in-depth research.