The intervention of ΟΠΚΕ police first aid saved the 34-year-old man’s life until an ambulance arrived on the scene and took him away. On Friday morning, three shots were fired at him in Votanikos (Botanical Garden).
As seen in the photos protothema.gr, the police treated the wound in the stomach of the man, who is now hospitalized at the Georgios Gennimatas Hospital. He was found at the intersection of Iera Odos and Spiru Patsi, where he asked for help from passing police officers. As it turned out, the armed attack on him occurred shortly before 04:00 in the morning in one of the parks in the area on Sidirokastro Street.
According to reports, the attackers were in a car in which they drove up to the man and shot him three times. According to the same information, three 9 mm casings were found and seized at the scene of the shooting.
The man was arrested in 2019 in a drug case, but at this time evidence does not link him to any other serious case.
On the occasion of the incident, member of the board of directors of the Athens Police Union, Dimitris Mylonas, an employee of the criminal investigation department, stated that “Combat First Aid has been an integral part of CID training for the past two years, and its correct application has saved the lives of several civilians in similar incidents. The Athens Police Union, recognizing the need for medical supplies in time, donated a kit to every CSO team in Attica first aid, containing all the materials that enable police officers to successfully deal with such incidents, costing hundreds of euros, which was used in this case. Finally, I would like to point out that we often organize free public first aid seminars combat support for all our police officers so that as many of our colleagues as possible can deal with similar incidents.”
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