Kougias on the Lyggeridis case: “The case file is ridiculous, it was set up to beat Olympiacos” (vid)

The lawyer also spoke about the arrest of Olympiakos fans and what they are accused of.

Alexis Kougias spoke on Friday morning (26/4) on the ANT1 show “Morning Greece” and, among other things, he mentioned the case of the murder of the police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis and the arrests of Olympiacos fans.

“I was asked to defend defendants in this case. But, due to the sensitive position I have and if I accepted to defend, various associations would automatically have been created. I will say that the case file of Kougeika, Petropouliotika and Olympiaka is a joke. He aims to beat Olympiakos. The reasons that led this renegade to sign the transfer, have nothing to do with football. The mind is minded. I will say it very harshly, the case was set up to hit Olympiacos and its owner.

It is comical what is mentioned in the case file with the supposedly protected witnesses. I have boned the case file. I’m interested as a Kuya but also in the capacity I have right now. Even the scapegoat will laugh in court. This whole story does not arise from any objective evidence. They say they have found three protected testimonies. They made two indictments for the same crime. They took the accused from one case and made them witnesses in the other and called them protected. This case was started in 2019 by the then leader of EL.AS, Lefteris Oikonomou, later deputy minister, with a case file with 1,200 accused fans of all major teams, including Larissa. Map the hooligans. This case as of 2019 never progressed.

Now, this section of Athletic Violence, which is controlled by a certain venue, I emphasize directly targeted Olympiakos. He didn’t do the same when Alkis Kampanos was murdered, he didn’t take the hooligans of PAOK to turn them into a criminal organization. A criminal organization wouldn’t stand anywhere. Here they took from that case file those who had been targeted by the police at the time, without proving that they had committed anything, and made them a criminal organization. And they found that one worked, he says, in the municipality of Piraeus, so shouldn’t a child who doesn’t have a job in the municipality of Piraeus be hired? And why is he a hooligan? And why is port 7 a criminal organization? It is certain that there are frivolous children. That there are some who infiltrate these unions. Because they are unions. Port 7 was created after the tragedy of port 7. It has an emotional infrastructure. From there on, anarchist elements certainly infiltrate, and criminal elements also intervene. This does not mean that it is a criminal organization. This only happens at Olympiakos and it happens especially now that it has something to do with politics».

And he went on to say:Olympiacos won the European Cup and the Deputy Minister of Sports did not come to welcome them, the children turned around, while Mr. Vroutsis goes to weddings and christenings of AEK fans. They are fighting Olympiakos and no one welcomed them, they are in the 4th place in Europe, they will win the European Cup“, Alexis Kougias said characteristically.