Moral perpetrator in the murder Lyggeridis Roumanos who was arrested in Volos

“Coco”, “Shark” and “Romanian”

In the events that took place on December 3rd at the Panthessal Stadium of Volos during the Volos-Olympiakos match, “Romanos” was arrested, who together with four other people are the perpetrators of the murderous attack on the police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis, in Rentis, who are the focus of the the authorities are interested.

These are the people who recruited and brainwashed 16- and 20-year-olds, turning them into “killing machines”.

According to the same information, the five “heads” are: I.A, a leading member of Thira 7. This person was spotted the day before yesterday afternoon in a cafe in Ioannina with a friend. He had 5,000 euros and 4 mobile phones in his possession and the authorities do not rule out the possibility that he was trying to escape to Albania.

Another person accused of being a moral perpetrator is the trapper’s now well-known manager. When he was examined by the authorities, he said: “I carried a banner and left.” According to “Star”, after the murder Lyggeridis had met with the 18-year-old, who is in prison for life.

The third is a person with the nickname “Romanos”, who is another one of those accused of moral corruption. On 03/04 he was one of the people who were involved in a fight outside “Karaiskakis” with other Olympiacos fans.

This is the same person who, according to the announcement issued by the Police in Volos after the incidents in Panthessaliko, was among the six arrested for violating the law on flares as well as for possession of drugs, with a 15-year-old minor while the ages of the others , were between 20 – 43 years old. Those arrested at the time were released by oral order of the Prosecutor.

Also, according to the case file, “Kokos”, 31, had a leading role in the criminal organization. One of the two weapons was found in his possession, which have been identified in the investigations of the Authorities and finally “Sark”, 31 years old. It is an organized fan in the Olympiakos association in western Attica.

Faced with serious offences

The Prosecutor’s Office brought criminal charges against the 66 arrested for a series of felonies and for a number of misdemeanors, a total of 28 offenses, for the case of the murderous attack against the MAT policeman in Rentis and other criminal acts.

Specifically, criminal prosecution was brought for the following categories: Management of a criminal organization (five people), formation and membership in a criminal organization, homicide during a sporting event, moral complicity in homicide during a sporting event, crews in homicide during a sporting event, explosion resulting in the death of another during a sporting event, moral complicity in the explosion resulting in the death of another during a sporting event, complicity in the explosion resulting in the death of another during a sporting event, manufacture of explosive devices for the purpose of illegally supplying organizations with the occasion of a sporting event, extortion by threat of damage to another’s business in complicity during a sporting event, robbery in complicity and serially with a sporting background, distinguished violence against employees who have been in serious danger, etc. .

Five investigators will take over the investigation after prosecution. Specifically, the case will be handled by the 9th investigator with assistants on the 22nd and 17th, the 2nd juvenile investigator and the 4th drug investigator.

Key Testimonials

Key to the investigation of the criminal group responsible for the planning, organization and execution of the incidents outside the Melina Merkouri stadium, on the 7th of last December, the testimonies of three people who were present that night at the stadium, but also in the what followed and ended in the murder of the MAT police officer, Giorgos Lyggeridis. These three persons, included in the 384 brought that night, have been placed under witness protection status.

As argued in the case file, specific persons, from TYRA 7, who call themselves “organized” had formed a group with the purpose of committing crimes. On the critical evening of December 7th, as described in the case file and according to testimonies, around 150 organized fans, after the first set of the Olympiakos – Panathinaikos volleyball match, left the stadium and gathered on Alexandrou Papadiamantis Street. There they set up barricades and set fires in bins, creating a scene of incidents and actually causing the intervention of the police forces. The fans were uniformly dressed in black, most of them covered their faces with full-face hoods, and having been supplied in advance by the organizers of the incidents, Molotov cocktails, naval flares and even stones were hurled at the police. During these attacks, Giorgos Lyggeridis was mortally wounded.

“While the injured Deputy Warden was on the ground, one of the fans activated and threw an improvised explosive device towards him which exploded near him and wounded him in his right leg,” the preliminary investigation file states. As it is added, a second police officer was injured and was taken to the hospital that night. During the attacks, the hooligans threatened them with phrases such as “we have a war, cops, we will kill you all”, “New Smyrna needs you again”, “they will find you all cold”.

The police operation that followed after the murder of Giorgos Lyggeridis was named “Damokleios Spathes”. The case file concerns all 160 defendants and a specific role is attributed to each of them in the criminal organization, as well as specific action and crimes, as the case may be. In total, yesterday morning searches were carried out in 87 houses, cars and other places and a lot of evidence was seized that declares the organized action of the accused. Weapons are also included among what was found in the possession of certain persons.

The case file identifies both the physical perpetrator of the Lyggeridis murder – who has already confessed to throwing the naval flare and has been remanded in custody – as well as the moral perpetrators. These are five people, I.A., M.X. P.K. A.T. and LK., who, according to the indictment, “intentionally provoked the decision of the perpetrator to fatally injure George Lyggeridis”. In fact, one of the leading executives, M.X. he allegedly also participates in the “Western Falsehood” organization, which is considered the toughest organization with attacks on police officers.

However, what emerged during the investigation in the 4.5 months between the murder and the mass arrests yesterday, was how the Door 7 hooligans’ criminal organization was organized.

The purpose of the organization, which has been active for at least five years and had an organizational structure and distinct roles, according to the police, is to commit crimes.

As it is pointed out in the case file, “financial benefits associated with the action of at least some of the members of the organization were identified, as detailed below. The activity of the criminal organization takes place mainly in Attica, but there are also cases where, on the occasion of matches of the Olympiakos team outside Attica, criminal acts were committed in other cities of Greece, such as in Volos and Ioannina”.

Finally, according to the case file, eight members of the organization are the narrow leadership core. In fact, most of them have or had an official relationship either with PAE Olympiacos or with the municipality of Piraeus.