Prosecution of two felonies and three misdemeanors against eight Turks detained in connection with the Glyfada shooting.
The 8 Turkish citizens were referred to an investigator, from whom they are expected to request and receive a deferment in order to prepare to testify. The Athens Prosecutor General's Office today, Thursday (12/12), opened a criminal case for two felonies and three misdemeanors against the eight Turks detained on Wednesday. In particular, a criminal case was initiated against eight detainees for:
- illegal possession and trafficking of weapons for the purpose of transfer to third parties (serious crime),
- drug trafficking (serious crime),
- illegal possession of ammunition (offense),
- illegal entry into the country (offense),
- organizing with others to commit serious crimes (misdemeanor).
A large-scale police operation took place in Greece to eliminate criminal groups created by Turkish citizens in Athens And Thessaloniki. It started after shootoutswhich occurred early on the morning of Monday December 9 in the area Glyfada in the south of Athens, as a result of which two people were killed and one person was seriously injured.
During a police operation eight people were arrestedeight more were brought in for questioning. Police seized 49 firearms and drugs. Pistols mput on Glock were hidden in a suitcase in an apartment in the center of Athens, the newspaper reports eleftherostypos.gr.
Two of attackers in Glyfada were arrested on the same day. These are Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin, aged 26 and 22 years. They were brought to the prosecutor on Tuesday and charged with murder. According to media reports, they confessed to the shootings, saying that the victims were members of a gang that their gang was at war with since they killed some of their members. They knew that the victims had fled to Greece and also moved here with the aim of exterminating them.
Police also arrested other participants in the shooting that took place in front of passers-bycausing panic among residents of the streets and shops around the square Karaiskaki.
The killers walked the streets openly with guns, targeting their victims, whom they discovered in a bookmaker's office next to a kindergarten full of children. The two victims, a seriously injured man and another man who happened not to go with them, belonged to “Baygaralar”one of the largest criminal networks in Turkey.
The criminals, members of a rival gang, were sent to eliminate them as revenge for two killings of their own people in previous months in Turkey, the arrested Kurds said.
Greek crime journalists believe that the criminal group Baygaralar, operating in Greece, is closely linked to the Turkish intelligence service MIT.
They acted in Glyfada 8 peopleeveryone was armed. They had gradually arrived in the country over the previous months. Two arrested arrived last in summer and in November. It is unclear whether the suspects entered the country legally or were in hiding as illegal migrants or asylum seekers.
In a similar mafia shooting in Piraeus Last June, a 48-year-old and a 23-year-old man, who were members of the Baygalar gang, also died.
The criminal network is believed to be involved in migrant smugglingdrugs and weapons. 29-year-old man known as a leader gang “Baigalar”was arrested last May in Athens as a result of cooperation between Greek and Turkish authorities.
Images courtesy of Greek Police.
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