Two Turks have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the shooting death of six of their compatriots in Greece last month, Greek authorities said on Wednesday.
The police stated that six persons, killed in an ambush near Athens on September 11, were believed to be members of an international criminal gang and had made a short stop in Greece on their way to Turkey. Such mass shootings are extremely rare in Greece, and authorities suspected links to foreign criminal organizations from the beginning.
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The police statement said that one of the two detained suspects organized the victims’ stay in Greece and their trips to Turkey, but allegedly organized the meeting in the town of Artemis that became fatal for the six Turks.
When the Turks were traveling to the Athens airport, they stopped at a pre-agreed location where an ambush awaited them. According to the police, the killers finished them off with shots to the head fired at close range. The town of Artemis is located about 20 kilometers east of Athens and not far from the capital’s airport El. Venizelos.
One of the suspects, a 32-year-old Turkish national, was arrested at the airport hours after the shooting, before he could board a flight to an eastern Aegean island off the Turkish coast. On Tuesday, police said they had detained a 28-year-old man in Athens.
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According to police, the arrests were made as a result of cooperation with the intelligence services and counter-terrorism units of Greece, as well as the exchange of information with the authorities of other countries.
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