Lyggeridis murder: Those arrested for fan violence appeared in court – News – Olympiacos

At 9 in the morning they arrived at the courts of Evelpidon, the 60 arrested in order to apologize for the heavy charges they face for the murder of the police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis outside the “Melina Merkouri” stadium in Rentis as well as for other fights in sports venues.

Those arrested under draconian police measures were transferred by the General Police Directorate of Attica in the courts of Evelpidon in order to appear before the investigator and the prosecutor.

After 4 months of extensive research of the security of Attica which was carried out 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 venues they handcuffed 60 people, members of a criminal organization. who have allegedly been committing felony and misdemeanor offenses since at least 2019.

According to police sources, voluminous case file that has been formed, is more than 3000 pagesincludes testimonies, videos, findings – evidence concerning incidents of fan violence beyond the murderous attack of the 31-year-old policeman, while the defendants are 158.

Specifically – always according to the same sources – some of those arrested allegedly took part in the incidents in the matches Volos-Olympiakos, Olympiakos-Aris and Pas Ioannina-Olympiakos.

The big question that remains to be answered the Authorities are who or who are the moral perpetrators of the attack on Rentis that resulted in the fatal injury of Lyggeridis.

Three key people” are what 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.

Source: skai.gr