Those arrested will be brought before the prosecutor’s office on Tuesday to be formally charged with the serious charges.
More than 60 prosecutions and arrests were made in the last hours for the murderous attack on December 7th on the MAT police officer, Giorgos Lyggeridis, with a naval flare in Rentis, outside the “Melina Merkouri” stadium.
The large operation of the Police started on Sunday afternoon from the city of Ioannina. According to ERT information, one of the natural perpetrators of the murderous attack against the young policeman tried to escape abroad. He was probably fleeing to Albania. According to the same sources, he was spotted in the city of Ioannina by police officers from the Sports Violence Department, riding in a car and moving towards the border.
Afterwards, investigations were carried out in Attica as well as in other regions of Greece. So far, 56 arrests have been made, among which are the five moral perpetrators and two leading members, that is, those who gave the trigger for the attack against the MAT squads.
It is recalled that the 31-year-old police officer died on December 27, after 20 days of hospitalization, following his serious injury from a naval flare that he had received during incidents that took place outside the “Melina Merkouri” stadium in Rentis.
The announcement of EL.AS.:
In the last 4 months, the Sub-Directorate for Combating Violence in Sports Venues of the Attica Security Directorate, with the assistance of the Criminal Investigations Directorate, conducted an extensive investigation under the utmost secrecy to fully elucidate the criminal hooligan attack in the area of Rentis, which resulted in the death of YAT police officer Georgios Lyggeridis.
As is already known, in order to solve this murderous attack, from the first moment, more than 400 prosecutions had been made, so that no conviction was lost, while one person had been arrested and brought to justice.
Subsequently, the case file compiled included testimony, video and other findings that demonstrated the existence of a criminal organization behind the attack, while confirming a link between sports violence and organized crime.
In particular, evidence emerged of a criminal organization, consisting of 158 members, which, at least since 2019, committed felony and misdemeanor criminal acts and operated mainly in Attica, Volos and Ioannina.
In order to dismantle the criminal organization in question, from the early hours of this morning, as part of the ongoing preliminary investigation, a wide-ranging police operation was carried out, with the assistance of the EKAM. and police dogs, resulting in the arrest of 60 people so far.
At the same time, 58 searches have been carried out in houses and 15 in vehicles and a number of persuasive items such as pistols, wooden bats, knives, drugs, clothing, digital media and others have been seized.
Our commitment to combating sports violence and overall lawlessness is absolute. We will continue to work with plan and determination for the safety of citizens and peaceful coexistence in our society.
