In 1999 he became known as the lawyer of Abdullah Öcalan, participating actively in the campaign of the Kurdish leader, which ended with his capture by Turkish agents in Nairobi, Kenya.
Failos Kranidiotis and his vice president, Panayotis Doumas travelled several times to Brussels to achieve the participation of the party in the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENL).
The attack, which occurred in the early hours, involved the detonation of a number of small bombs at the entrance of the building in Plaka, central Athens, causing considerable damage.
[11] In a proclamation posted on the Zougla news website, the group said the gas canister attack was motivated by the fact that Kranidiotis was "a key link and main channel of communication between New Democracy and Golden Dawn," a neo-Nazi political party.
[12] On 7 March 2017, Failos Kranidiotis reported to police that he was the victim of an attack by an unknown assailant while sitting in his car in central Athens.