Giannis Theonas
Greek politician (1940–2021)
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Giannis Theonas (Greek: Γιάννης Θεωνάς; 29 October 1940 – 12 September 2021) was a Greek politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece and as a Member of the Greek Parliament for Syriza. In 2010, after his resignation from the Communist Party of Greece,[1] he and some other politicians founded the Movement for the Unity of Action of the Left,[2] which later merged with Syriza. He was born in Naxos.[3]
Knife attack
On 3 June 1994, a far-right extremist stabbed Giannis Theonas and some other politicians while they were delivering a political speech about the 1994 European Parliament election in Greece. He was immediately transported to a nearby hospital and survived the attack.[4]
