An arrest warrant has been issued for a 38-year-old driver who beat German tourists in Mylopotamos, Crete and threatened them with a knife.
Two hooligans accused in an attack on German tourists36 and 38 years old, have a criminal record and are well known to the authorities: one served time for fighting, and the second for selling drugs.
Earlier, Citizens Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos demanded the immediate mobilization of the authorities to identify the suspects in order to detain and bring them to justice.
Two Cretans have been charged with violating the law on weapons, damaging foreign property and causing bodily harm. According to the information, the criminals, through a lawyer, turned to the police with a statement of their intention to surrender.
The unprecedented incident took place in Mylopotamos near Rethymno on the morning of Friday, August 19, 2022. Tourists avoided more serious problems, as other local residents intervened in the conflict and helped them get out of the area where the “wild mountaineers” lived.
According to the state broadcaster ERT, a German family was driving along the road of the village of Perama past Mylopotamos when their car overtook a truck carrying local farmers. “Apparently due to the fact that the locals considered it an insult that they were overtaken by a rented car with “foreigners”, they deliberately increased their speed and crashed into the car.” They did this again and again, and the chase continued for some time at a distance of 2 kilometers.
According to the message ERT, at some point, the truck stopped next to the car with tourists, and when the driver opened the door, the farmer began to beat on the window with his fist. At first the young man was shocked, and then he tried to defend himself, and his brother got out of the car and hit the angry farmer to protect his brother. The situation got out of control when a passenger of the truck got out of the car, holding a knife with a 20-centimeter blade in his hand.
Frightened tourists tried to move away. The two breeders, however, continued to chase them and “drive” the rented car at a distance of two kilometers, that is, to the crowded center of Peram at that time.
The driver of a rural car was in front of a rented vehicle and literally drove his truck backwards into a stopped car with a family in a state of absolute horror at the immediate danger to their lives.
Eventually the people of Perama intervened and helped the German family leave the area.
The incident, thanks to the media, gained international publicity and forced the Minister of Civil Protection to intervene.
The unprecedented incident took place in Mylopotamos near Rethymno on the morning of Friday, August 19, 2022. Tourists avoided more serious problems, as other local residents intervened in the conflict and helped them get out of the area where the “wild mountaineers” lived.
According to the state broadcaster ERT, a German family was driving along the road of the village of Perama past Mylopotamos when their car overtook a truck carrying local farmers. “Apparently due to the fact that the locals considered it an insult that they were overtaken by a rented car with “foreigners”, they deliberately increased their speed and crashed into the car.” They did this again and again, and the chase continued for some time at a distance of 2 kilometers.
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