April 20, 2024

Athens News

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Four contract killings in a month

Four contract killings in less than a month in Greece, some of which occurred in broad daylight. This is too much of an insult for the Greek police to get away with a simple statement of the settling of accounts between criminals.

Less than 10 days have passed since the Minister of Citizens’ Protection crossed the threshold of the Supreme Court to hand over a file of organized crime cases in Greece. Michalis Chrysosaidis briefed the Supreme Court leadership on her networks in the country, providing a list of no less than 500 names of hardened criminals who, he said, are involved in all types of criminal activity in Greece.

Let’s remind:

1. On May 7, 54-year-old businessman Dimis Korfiatis was killed in the city of Zakynthos. Two men who ambushed him executed himwhen he was in the accounting office in the capital of the island.

The criminals opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles and fled. A year ago, in June 2020, a 54-year-old businessman was wounded in another ambush, and his 37-year-old wife was killed.

2. On May 16, two performers on a motorcycle drove up to a famous 58-year-old boxer and footballer known in the organized crime community under the pseudonym “Kefalas” (Kefalonian). Near a tavern in Metamorphosis, they approached their victim, and one of the criminals began to shoot him with a pistol. The killer put six bullets in the body of a 58-year-old man. Kefalas in the past has been repeatedly subjected to articles related to racketeering and extortion. An old 2011 dossier states that he was the leader of a gang of racketeers that operated in the metropolitan areas of New Philadelphia, New Chalcedon and Metamorphosis.

3.On May 30, 2021, a 38-year-old Albanian known to law enforcement as “Aris” shot in the cafeteria in Sepolia. This was the fourth recent attack on him. The killer fired eight bullets in the victim. According to the criminal police, a showdown between warring factions in the center of Athens over a drug trafficking market is behind the murder.

4. On Monday, May 31, at about 9 am, in the capital district of Vari, the killers were shot Greek boxer Thassos Berdesis, winner of the TV show Survival Secret. The victim was caught on the road as he was heading to a boxing club.

As it became known, a black jeep drove up to Thassos Berdesis, and one of the passengers shot him with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, while more than 10 cartridges were found at the scene of the murder. One of the bullets hit the boxer in the head. The way his execution was carried out, according to the police, speaks of a contract murder.





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