At least 64 arrests for criminal organization – Involved in the bloody incidents in Rentis
Big business for the dismantling of the main core of hooligans allegedly related to the case of the murder of the police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis, the Police have been carrying out since dawn. So far, they have 64 people were arrestedwhich are allegedly involved in bloody episodes in Rentis, but also in other incidents of fan fights. An indictment for the creation of a criminal organization will be submitted on Tuesday (23/4) to the Prosecutor, while charges of moral complicity in the fatal wounding of the 31-year-old police officer are also expected to be brought.
For at least five years, from 2019 until today, the 158 people included in the voluminous file numbering more than 3000 pages are said to have been active, not only in Attica but also in the province, such as Volos and Ioannina.
Of the more than 64 people who have been arrested, the experienced Attica security officershave 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.
The members of this criminal organization acted 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, photographs and witness statements “provided” basic evidence, while the forensic laboratories also “spoke” about various weapons that had been identified outside the Melina Merkouri stadium and had been transferred to the forensic laboratories, as well as from the toilets of the stadium where they had been placed set fire to clothes in order to eliminate their traces.
At the same time, from the removal of telephone privacy, persons were settled, while the movements they had made were also targeted by the investigations.
Typical case, as reported by a competent source of EL.AS. with knowledge of the investigations, it is the gathering that some of the members had held 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 by saying “let’s go out now to finish them off, clean them up.” Then they distributed the 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. In Volos some 24 hours before the incidents in Rentis and the attack against the police 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 also stabbed a female fan of another team group.
Source: ERTNews
