The way of organizing the incidents in Rentis, which led to his fatal injury 31-year-old police officer Giorgos Lyggeridisand the internal hierarchy of hooligan her “Gate 7”who are accused of constituting a criminal organization, is described in the pages of the case file formed by Sub-Directorate for Combating Sports Violence.
Yesterday, the more than 60 arrested were brought before the public prosecutor, who brought charges against them prosecutions for 12 feloniesamong which those of the address and inclusion in criminal organizationher homicideof moral complicity in homicide, of the explosion, etc.
All of them asked and got a deadline and they are expected to apologize before the investigators in the next twenty-four hours. The investigation revealed, in particular, that 32 of the accused met at 6.30 p.m. of December 7, 2023 outside the VIP door of the Karaiskaki stadium.
With the stadium’s security cameras not recording an image, they loaded munitions (naval flares and dynamite), while the younger members of the group went to get gasoline from a gas station to make Molotov cocktails. When they finished the preparation, most of them went by motorized march and the rest in four vehicles. in the “Melina Merkouri” indoor stadium in order – based on a plan – to attack the MAT platoonwhich carried out measures of order.
The attack happened shortly after the end of his first set Olympiakos – Panathinaikos volleyball match, following the consultation of the alleged leader of the organized fans of “Thira 7” and the singer’s “manager” and head of the association in Ano Liosia (both are among those arrested). As a sign of preparation for the attack, EL.AS. points out that the perpetrators did not, as usual, wear insignia of their group, but black clothes to make it more difficult for the police to identify them.
Three people have been placed under witness protection, with one of them appearing to have provided critical information about the structure of the criminal organization.
The signal
By agreement, the signal to begin the attack was given by the leader of the “Gate 7” hooligans, firing a molotov bomb against the police. According to witness statements, immediately after the first wave of attacks on the platoon, the leaders of the team were removed from the closed, without being arrested, while some managed to escape by getting into the cars of the players and sports missions.
The period that followed the fatal wounding of the 31-year-old deputy warden, the security officers, after depriving the suspects’ mobile phones, recorded conversations in which some express anxiety about the possibility of being identified by the authorities and others boast about their “accomplishments”. “You know, they showed photos from inside the stadium. We look blurry, but it looks like I’m wearing the bad boy jacket, that we’re in the horseshoe,” two of the accused are heard saying in conversation. “They found, he says, DNA on some burnt clothes. I want to talk to the lawyer for a bit, may I?’ another accused is recorded as saying in conversation with his father.
In total, three people have been put under witness protection, with one of them code 67 E appearing to have provided police with the most critical information for its structure and action criminal organization. Critical information was obtained by the Security from video recovered by the police from the mobile phones of the accused and a USB with a total of 15 videos that came into the possession of the officers of the sub-directorate for combating sports violence.
In their official documents, the police describe that leading members of the hooligan group carried credentials that allowed them to move freely on and off the field. Finally, the THE GREEK POLICE. attributes to those prosecuted actions suggestive of organized crime, such as drug dealing, providing “protection” to food stalls set up around the stadium on match days, and allegedly receiving free tickets from management, which they sold collecting the money. For this reason, the police are asking the investigation to proceed with a money laundering investigation.
