Stormy are the developments in the case of the murderous attack with a naval flare that the chief constable Giorgos Lyggeridis received in Rentis in December 2023.
After 4 months of an extensive investigation by Attica security, which was conducted under the utmost secrecy and a “sweep” operation, which was carried out yesterday and included searches of dozens of houses and vehicles, police officers of the sub-directorate for dealing with violence in sports grounds handcuffed 60 people, members criminal organization. who have allegedly been committing felony and misdemeanor offenses since at least 2019.
According to police sources, the voluminous case file that has been formed, is more than 3000 pages long, includes testimonies, videos, findings – evidence concerning incidents of fan violence in addition to the murderous attack of the 31-year-old police officer, while the defendants are 158.
Specifically – always according to the same sources – some of those arrested allegedly took part in the incidents in the Volos-Olympiakos, Olympiakos-Aris and Pas Ioannina-Olympiakos matches.
The big question that remains to be answered by the authorities is who or who are the moral perpetrators of the attack on Rentis that resulted in the fatal injury of Lyggeridis.
Three “key” people are the ones the authorities believe “weaponized” the hands of the hooligans. The “leader” of the association of organized fans, the “Romanian” and the manager of a well-known trapper who was also in December 2023 among the suspects.
The police officers, however, from the evidence they have collected, are sure that all 3 belong to leadership key roles, while among the rest of the arrested there are the “deputy leaders” as well as the “recruiters” who were tasked with “fishing” young people from the associations and they join the “armies” of hooligans.
DNA from clothes, testimonies, video and photographic material but mainly recorded conversations that according to police sources resulted from the declassification of communications and show the cynical way of the accused in what they said on the phone after the attack with flares and molotov cocktails on the platoon in Rentis but also in other serious incidents in matches, they burn the accused who today will cross the threshold of the prosecutor.
The news of the arrests was heard by the parents and the sister of the unfortunate police chief at an event dedicated to his memory and they literally fell into the arms of the men of the platoon in which the 31-year-old served.
The event was held as part of a workshop on the theme “No to violence, yes to sports” and was attended by representatives of political parties, local government and trade union bodies, as well as the leader of ELAS and the Minister of Civil Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis who in his speech assured the father of Giorgos Lygeridis, that they will not be left alone, while he announced that in collaboration with the Panhellenic Federation of Police Officers, there will be, after many years, a review of the network of protection and support – moral and financial – of the victims of violence and terrorism .
Source: skai.gr
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