Great business for dismantling the main core of hooligans allegedly related to murder case of the police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis, the Police has been carrying out since dawn. So far, they have 64 people were arrestedwhich are reported to be involved in blood vessels episodes in Rentisbut also in other incidents of fan fights. Litigation for formation of a criminal organizationwill be submitted on Tuesday (23/4) to the Prosecutor, while charges are also expected to be handed down for moral authorship in the fatal injury of the 31-year-old police officer.
At least for five years, from 2019 until today, the 158 people included in the voluminous file are said to have acted numbering more than 3000 pagesnot only in Attica but also in the province, such as Volos and Ioannina.
From 64 more people have been arrestedthe experienced Attica security officers, have identified many of them in 11-12 cases of fan violence.
However, the “very tough core of hooligans”, the leading core, amounts to about 20 people. According to police sources 5 people are charged as moral perpetrators of the murder of Giorgos Lyggeridis.
Its members of this criminal organization operated with a different composition each time. The police officers dealing with violence in the sports arenas have succeeded in the secret investigation for four months to “bind” the charge of the criminal organization, through important findings mainly from the scene of the murder of the MAT police officer.
The videos, photos and witness statements “gave” basic evidence, while the forensic labs also “talked” to various munitions that had been identified outside the Melina Mercouri stadium and had been taken to the forensic labs, as well as from the stadium’s toilets where they had been placed set fire to clothes in order to eliminate their traces.
At the same time from removal of telephone privacy, persons were identified while the movements they had made were also targeted by the investigations.
Typical case, as reported by a competent source of EL.AS. with research knowledge, it is the concentration they had carried out by some of the members at the Georgios Karaiskakis stadium, before the match at the Melina Merkouris stadium and the murderous attack against Giorgos Lyggeridis. There, they loaded munitions into vehicles and took them “in procession” to Melina Merkouri Stadium, entering it normally.
The alleged leaders at one point gave the signal saying “let’s go out now and finish them off, clean them up”. Then they distributed them munitions such as bottles, flares and others, resulting in the killing of the policeman.
Among the incidents that were allegedly involved is in April 2024 between fans of the same team in Georgios Karaiskakis, with the same information sources reporting that this fight took place over the leadership. To Bullet some 24 hours before the incidents in Rentis and the attack against the policemen which was characterized as retaliation for Volos, in another episode in 2023 when they had injured a fan of another team with a knife, as well as in 2019 when they had stabbed a female fan also of another team.
An unemployed “team leader” had 5,000 euros in his pockets
All the those arrested come from the door of the organized fans of the specific team and face her charge of the criminal organization with different subcategories depending on their degree of involvement. Among those arrested is O minor brother of the accused for launching the fatal flare, as well as manager of a well-known trapper.
The evidence that has been found against those arrested is numerous and “burn” those directly involved in the violent episodes of that night, as all these months they have identified through the findings from the Forensic Laboratories as well as from the analysis of the video materials.
Especially for him main core of the “group leaders» there have also been inquiries about money. In fact, in the possession of one of those directly involved unemployedamong others, were found and confiscated 5,000 euros which he could not justify. One of them was arrested in Ioannina in his attempt to escape the country.
“I lost a son, I lost a hero”
The operation of EL.AS., became known at the time the “No to Violence, Yes to Sports” day was in progress in memory of George Lyggeridis, in the presence of the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis and the family of the 31-year-old, with father of on hearing the news to he falls into the arms of the police officers who served in the same platoon as his son.
“I lost a son, a hero. But through this son I found another family. His platoon. And all of you. What these guys did to my son, they will continue to do,” said the father of the 31-year-old policeman. Thanasis Lyggeridis.
“Whatever the law says, from then on what are we to say? There goes our lad. Whatever they do now… Justification is always there of course. But if the adults are punished. The other kids who pay for them? What to say;” mentioned among others grandfather of Giorgos Lyggeridis.
Her assurance that Justice will be servedas provided by the Republic and our Constitution in the case of Giorgos Lyggeridis, the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis.
The arrested are expected to be brought before the prosecutor tomorrow, Tuesday.
Reporting: Katia Niakari, Thodoris Panagiotidis, Giorgos Gerafentis, Chara Giannopoulou
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