Lyggeridis murder: Criminal organization behind the attack with 158 members – Those arrested operated in Attiki, Volos and Ioannina

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 60 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.

For For four months, the police investigation was carried out in strict secrecy for the killing with a naval flare of the 31-year-old police officer, on December 7, 2023, outside the closed gymnasium of Rentis, where a Volleyball match was being held. The authorities with the assistance of EKAM and police dogs have proceeded to 58 homes and 15 vehicles were searched and pistols, wooden bats, knives, drugs, clothing and digital media were seized.

The evidence shows, according to the police, that domestic violence and common criminal crime are communicating vessels.

“The case file that was compiled included testimonies, videos and other findings that demonstrated the existence of a criminal organization behind the attack, while confirming the association of sports violence with organized crime. In particular, they arose evidence of a criminal organization, consisting of 158 members, which, at least as of 2019committed felony and misdemeanor criminal acts and operated mainly in Attiki, Volos and Ioannina” said, among other things, Lieutenant General Dimitrios Mallios, Chief of the Greek Army.

Among those arrested were the “group leaders”

60 people have already been arrested, including the “organizers” of both this episode and others, and the operation continues. THE core of those involved comes from her link Western Attica.

Among those arrested are 20 to 30 people, the hard core of the organizers both the bloody episode in Rentis and 10 other episodes in matches, as in the case of Volos but also in fights with other fans.

The moral authors had no physical presence but directed other people from a distance.

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