On November 1, 2010, Panayiotis Argyrou was arrested in Athens alongside Gerasimos Tsakolos during the wave of incendiary package mailings initiated by Fire Cells Consppiracy. Both comrades willingly admitted to their participation in the organisation. Argyrou had been named in the October 2009 arrest warrant charging him with participation in the fire Cells Conspiracy, and he was also awaiting trial for setting fire to a city bus.

On January 16, the first Fire Cells Coonspiracy trial began – the so-called “Halandri case”” – and Argyrou was one of the nine defendants. In protest against the trial conditions, he and three other defendants walked out of the courthouse at the end of January and never returned.
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