SYKARIUSZE. PRZEBIEG ZAMACHU STAROŻYTNYCH TERRORYSTÓW ZE WSPÓŁCZESNEJ PERSPEKTYWY ANALITYCZNEJ
THE SICARII. THE COURSE OF THE ATTACK OF ANCIENT TERRORISTS FROM A CONTEMPORARY ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: The authors claim that contemporary international terrorism differs a littlefrom the acts of violence that took place in ancient history. Such an exampleof the use of political terrorism was Sicarii, a Jewish sect operating in Palesti-ne and Egypt in the years 66-73 CE. Almost all information about this groupcomes from Flavius Josephus, a Roman historian of Jewish origin. The termsicarii itself has a Latin etymology and means murderers or assassins. It ap-peared in legal Latin in 81 BCE together with the Act Lex Cornelia de sicariiset veneficis, which was one of the first legal regulations in the field of seriousorganized crime. The Sicarii, however, fought in their own country with theintention of liberating it from the rule of a foreign power, Rome. Using theavailable source materials, the authors analyzed a typical attack made by Si-carii and confronted it with the achievements of modern forensics and theirexperience in the field of secret services. This made it possible to establish theconditions that had to be met for such an attack. To take place to effectivelyuse terrorism for political struggle by the Sicarii.

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